This role is about managing the Linux server estate, Nginx changes, CDNs / certificates / DNS, some WordPress sites, deploy website and web-app changes.
Complex regional routing — troubleshooting connectivity/routing matters.
Nice-to-have: Windows deployment tools, SOP-driven restarts of Windows Services/IIS.
Key skills:
Linux admin (CentOS, AlmaLinux)
zero-downtime deployments
CI/CD pipelines
IaC with Ansible and Puppet
LEMP and MERN in HA
NGINX load balancing / reverse proxy / caching
Memcached, Redis
caching, proxying, CDN, WebSockets, DR
Zabbix, Grafana, ELK
backup & DR
Git/GitHub.
Example projects:
data-centre build — Linux VMs via Ansible + Terraform,
web layer on F5 BIG-IP + nginx + in-house CMS + WordPress,
middleware Redis/Memcache, DB layer MariaDB/MongoDB.
Also new domains for the main client-facing site with IP- and login-cookie-based routing to regional domains (nginx, F5 BIG-IP, some Akamai, UltraDNS, Alibaba Cloud).
