DevOps Engineer

• Assess and harden the production estate across Linode and DigitalOcean, fronted by Cloudflare
• Own the resilience plan targeting 99.9% uptime, a 4-hour recovery time objective, and a maximum 1-hour recovery point objective
• Build a 3-2-1 backup regime with hourly encrypted MongoDB dumps, second-region replication, off-provider replication, and a local encrypted archive
• Conduct monthly restore drills to verify backups
• Build and maintain CI/CD for the MEAN-stack application
• Implement zero-downtime releases using rolling restarts behind a load balancer and blue-green deployments
• Integrate the QA team’s automated suite as a release gate
• Run monitoring, alerting, and incident response for uptime, error rates, and performance
• Write and rehearse the disaster-recovery runbook
• Own security posture including secrets management, access control, Cloudflare WAF and rules, security-audit remediation, and UK GDPR alignment
• Manage cloud costs across providers and report spend monthly
• Evaluate provider consolidation or AWS-based recovery based on evidence
• Document systems and processes as runbooks for the engineering team

• 4+ years running production infrastructure for a live web application, including at least one platform personally accountable for
• Hands-on experience with Linux servers on Linode/DigitalOcean or similar VPS providers
• Experience with Cloudflare DNS, caching, and WAF
• Experience with Docker and CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform or Ansible strongly preferred
• Production MongoDB operations, including replica sets, backups, restores, and migrations under load
• Experience deploying and operating Node.js applications
• Experience with the MEAN stack: MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node
• Evidence of security hardening, secrets management, and access reviews
• Experience preparing for or remediating a security audit is a strong plus
• Comfortable being the only infrastructure person
• Experience in edtech, CRM-style platforms, or systems holding sensitive personal data is nice to have
• UK GDPR or Cyber Essentials familiarity is nice to have
• Experience taking over a platform from a departing team is nice to have

• Company laptop provided
• Remote work from India
• Employment through an employer-of-record or as a direct contractor (agreed at offer)