DevOps Engineer

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. Assess and harden the infrastructure estate across Linode and DigitalOcean, fronted by Cloudflare .

Posted 9/24/2026full-timeRemote • IndiaMid-LevelSenior💰 £1,170 - £1,950 per monthWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in managing production infrastructure for web applications, with a focus on resilience planning, security posture, and CI/CD processes. Proficient in MongoDB operations and familiar with UK GDPR compliance and security audits.

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Production Infrastructure ManagementCI/CD Tooling ExperienceMongoDB OperationsSecurity HardeningLinux Server Administration

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Hard Skills

Infrastructure-as-CodeMongoDBNode.jsDockerTerraformAnsibleMEAN StackCloudflareLinuxProduction Platform Accountability

Soft Skills

AccountabilityProblem-SolvingDocumentation SkillsIncident Response

Tools & Technologies

GitHub ActionsGitLab CICloudflare WAFMonitoring ToolsLoad Balancer

Industry Keywords

UK GDPRCyber EssentialsEdtechCRM PlatformsSensitive Personal Data

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AngularAnsibleAWSCloudDNSDockerJavaScriptLinuxMongoDBNode.jsTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Assess and harden the infrastructure estate across Linode and DigitalOcean, fronted by Cloudflare
Own resilience planning against 99.9% uptime, 4-hour recovery time objective, and 1-hour recovery point objective targets
Build a 3-2-1 backup regime with hourly encrypted MongoDB dumps, second-region replication, off-provider replication, and a local encrypted archive
Prove backups through monthly restore drills
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 test suite as a release gate
Run monitoring, alerting, and incident response for uptime, error rates, and performance
Ensure alerts reach the appropriate person before users notice issues
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 monthly spend
Evaluate provider consolidation or AWS-based recovery based on evidence
Document infrastructure through runbooks usable by the engineering team without live assistance

Requirements

What you’ll need

4+ years running production infrastructure for a live web application
Personally accountable for at least one production platform
Hands-on experience with Linux servers on Linode/DigitalOcean or similar VPS providers
Experience with Cloudflare DNS, caching, and WAF
Experience with Docker
Experience with 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 MEAN stack: MongoDB, Express, Angular, 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 / Cyber Essentials familiarity is nice to have
Experience taking over a platform from a departing team is nice to have

Benefits

Comp & perks

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