Senior, VPS Hosting Engineer

Newfold Digital, through its Bluehost brand, is dedicated to empowering small businesses with online tools and support. The Senior VPS Hosting Engineer will design and scale the hosting infrastructure, focusing on performance and reliability while innovating with AI-enhanced solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain scalable VPS and hosting infrastructure
• Develop automation using Python, Bash, or other scripting languages
• AI/ML ops experience (anomaly detection, predictive monitoring, AIOps tooling), Kubernetes/container orchestration specifics, and WordPress-specific hosting knowledge (PHP-FPM, MySQL optimization, wp-cron, caching layers)
• Enhance environments across WordPress, shared, and VPS hosting
• Design and operate AI-enhanced hosting infrastructure at scale
• Build systems for self-healing, auto-scaling, and intelligent optimization
• Leverage AI to predict failures and automate remediation
• You will build the intelligent infrastructure layer that makes Bluehost’s hosting platform self-aware
• Develop tooling for provisioning, monitoring, and orchestration
• Contribute to infrastructure improvements and new hosting capabilities
• Explore automation opportunities to improve performance and efficiency

Requirements:

• 5–8+ years of experience in hosting, infrastructure, or systems engineering
• Deep expertise in Linux, VPS environments, and virtualization
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, etc.)
• Experience with cloud platforms, containers, and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong understanding of networking and performance optimization
• Comfortable working in high-scale, production-critical environments
• AI/ML ops experience (anomaly detection, predictive monitoring, AIOps tooling)
• Kubernetes/container orchestration specifics
• WordPress-specific hosting knowledge (PHP-FPM, MySQL optimization, wp-cron, caching layers)