Skilled Server Admin

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TYPE OF WORK

Freelance

SALARY

USD 4.00

HOURS PER WEEK

TBD

DATE POSTED

Apr 14, 2022

JOB OVERVIEW

This is an ongoing position with part-time work maintaining our VPS server and the accounts hosted on it.

Required Skills:
-- Fluent in American English, both spoken and written
-- Experience managing Linux servers
-- Skilled in use of the Command Line (Terminal Prompt) for performing various maintenance tasks
-- Knows what SSH is and how to tunnel into a server for maintenance purposes
-- Experience setting up and configuring Linux Virtual Private Servers so they are PCI-compliant
-- Ability to quickly set up new hosting accounts with primary domain names
-- Ability to create staging (dev.domain-name.tld) sites for development work
-- Has at least intermediate phpMyAdmin database management skills
-- -- Knows how to access specific databases and edit tables
-- -- Knows how to properly create a new database and import an existing database dump file
-- -- Knows how to set and update passwords and hash them for optimal security
-- Skills in performing routine server maintenance
-- -- Monitoring server function and performance
-- -- -- Know how to configure account backups so they don't fill up the virtual drive
-- -- -- Know how to manually delete account backups
-- -- -- Able to identify server performance issues and resolve them
-- Skill in configuring and setting firewall rules for optimal server security
-- Comfortable working in WHM and cPanel within a Linux Server environment
-- -- Comfortable working with PHP and MySQL
-- -- Comfortable with configuration of both Apache and Nginx web servers

Bonus Points for These Skills
-- Experience maintaining WordPress websites
-- -- Update themes and plugins
-- -- Skill in performing WooCommerce updates so they don't break the site
-- -- Perform WooCommerce database updates so they don't break the site
-- -- Knows that you ALWAYS perform updates on the dev site FIRST to prevent breaking the live site
-- -- Identify and resolve common WordPress technical issues (WSOD, slow page load times, common errors, etc.)

Other Requirements
Our business is located in the Eastern Time Zone of the United States. We require that you schedule at least 4 hours of your day during regular US business hours (typically Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm; 10pm-6am Philippines time). During those hours, you must be available via Slack (we'll set up an account for you) and Zoom Meetings (you may have to install Zoom software on your computer). Last, but not least, you must have a stable connection to the internet.

At first, hours will be part-time. As we add more clients and you prove yourself, more hours will become available for you to work.

ABOUT THE EMPLOYER

Contact Person: Pasquale Nocito

Member since: February 11, 2017

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