- Maintain and optimize the Drupal platform to ensure high availability, performance, and scalability
- Monitor system health and application performance using tools such as New Relic, identifying trends and driving improvements
- Implement and manage caching strategies, asset optimization, and performance tuning across the application stack
DevOps & Deployment Enablement:
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions to support automated testing and reliable deployments
- Manage and enforce source control best practices, including branching strategies and pull request workflows
- Partner with development teams to standardize deployment processes and ensure consistency across environments
- Support release management, including deployment coordination, validation, rollback strategies, and incident response
Cloud Infrastructure & Hosting:
- Manage and support cloud-hosted environments such as Acquia Cloud
- Ensure environments are properly configured, stable, and aligned with platform standards
- Collaborate with Platform leadership to evolve hosting capabilities and improve operational efficiency
Security & Traffic Management:
- Support the implementation of security best practices, including patching, dependency updates, and secure pipeline configuration
- Partner with internal teams to ensure alignment on traffic management, bot mitigation, and infrastructure security
- Configure and optimize CDN and WAF solutions (e.g., Cloudflare) to improve both performance and protection
Cross-Team Enablement:
- Work across multiple web development teams to support successful, low-risk deployments
- Troubleshoot issues across environments, including application, infrastructure, and integration layers
- Contribute to documentation, runbooks, and operational standards that improve team efficiency and consistency
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 3–5 years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or web platform engineering roles
- Strong experience with GitHub, including branching strategies, pull requests, and repository management
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred)
- Experience working with Drupal or similar PHP-based CMS platforms in production environments
- Solid understanding of cloud-hosted, multi-environment architectures (dev, stage, production)
- Working knowledge of web infrastructure, including Linux, web servers, databases, and caching layers
- Experience with application performance monitoring and troubleshooting
- Familiarity with CDN and WAF technologies
- Working knowledge of PHP, SQL, and modern web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to diagnose complex system issues
- Effective communication skills and ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience integrating CI/CD pipelines with managed hosting platforms such as Acquia Cloud
- Experience implementing automated testing, linting, and security scanning within deployment pipelines
- Hands-on experience with Acquia Cloud and Drupal hosting best practices
- Experience with Cloudflare or similar CDN/WAF solutions
- Experience using New Relic or similar monitoring tools for performance optimization
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management practices
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker
- Understanding of Composer, Symfony, and modern PHP ecosystems
- Experience working in Agile environments using tools such as Jira and Confluence
- Exposure to security best practices in regulated or compliance-driven environments
- Drupal or Acquia certifications