Ephoca · 13 hours ago
Senior DevOps Engineer – WordPress Platform
Farmers Branch, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
7+ years expEphoca is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer for their WordPress platform to manage the infrastructure, performance, security, and reliability of their multiple production WordPress websites. The role involves ownership of the platform's infrastructure, ensuring uptime and scalability while providing technical leadership and expertise in WordPress engineering.
CommercialConsumer GoodsHeating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC)Manufacturing
Responsibilities
Own and manage production infrastructure for multiple WordPress sites
Design, optimize, and scale servers on DigitalOcean
Ensure uptime, monitoring, backups, and disaster recovery
Optimize performance (Core Web Vitals, TTFB, caching, CDN)
Implement server and WordPress security best practices
Manage DNS, SSL, and email DNS (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
Respond to outages, incidents, and performance issues
Lead WordPress architecture, custom themes, and plugins
Evaluate and replace third-party plugins when needed
Maintain compatibility during WordPress and PHP upgrades
Act as technical owner and mentor for the WordPress team
Qualification
Required
7+ years experience (Infrastructure + WordPress at scale)
Own and manage production infrastructure for multiple WordPress sites
Design, optimize, and scale servers on DigitalOcean
Ensure uptime, monitoring, backups, and disaster recovery
Optimize performance (Core Web Vitals, TTFB, caching, CDN)
Implement server and WordPress security best practices
Manage DNS, SSL, and email DNS (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
Respond to outages, incidents, and performance issues
Lead WordPress architecture, custom themes, and plugins
Evaluate and replace third-party plugins when needed
Maintain compatibility during WordPress and PHP upgrades
Act as technical owner and mentor for the WordPress team
Strong Linux server administration (SSH, hardening, security)
Hands-on production experience with DigitalOcean
Monitoring, backups, recovery, and incident response
Performance optimization and caching
Cloudflare experience
Expert-level WordPress (core, hooks, plugins, themes)
Strong PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript
Experience running WordPress at scale
API integrations and third-party services
Ownership mindset for production systems
Confident architectural decision-making
Experience mentoring developers
Company
Ephoca
Ephoca is a manufacturer of heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems.
201-500 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageCompany data provided by crunchbase