Strategic Digital is a small Sunshine Coast agency. I run it. We host and maintain around 75 sites (mostly WordPress), do some SEO and Google/Meta Ads, and we’re building a SaaS booking platform (Astro, Payload CMS, TypeScript).

We don’t build current sites on WordPress any more - refreshes and rebuilds aside, new work is headless.

I need someone to own the day-to-day so I can get out of the inbox.

First few months: moving the WordPress fleet from cPanel (on GCP) to Kinsta - site-by-site reviews, PHP upgrades, bring-to-standard fixes, DNS to Cloudflare, retiring cPanel mail, then switching the old server off by April. Converting the small brochure sites to Astro static. You’ll run the migration work with me, not for me.

After that: the estate runs mostly on automated updates with visual regression, so the ongoing work is monthly functional checks, staged updates on the sites that need care, security response, and development on clients' existing sites - new pages and features, refreshes and rebuilds, forms, integrations, the odd WooCommerce job - plus some SEO/ads execution, and owning client support tickets end to end. You reply, not me. New builds and platform front-ends are Astro/Payload, and the mix shifts your way as you prove out.

You:
~ around three to five years in and around the WordPress stack in an agency or in-house - dev, technical SEO or a mix - or less if you've genuinely run sites rather than just built them.



You’ve had enough of patching other people’s page-builder sites..
~ You understand how hosting, DNS, PHP, the database and the front end fit together, and you can work out why something broke.
~You're comfortable in a terminal and can read PHP and an error log; writing it from scratch matters less, and we use Claude Code and similar heavily.
~ You can write a clear email to a non-technical client and know when to ask.
~ You've been learning JavaScript/TypeScript, Astro, Next or a headless CMS and want to do more.

Hybrid from the home office at Dulong, Sunshine Coast, plus remote.

Pay: AU$70,000 – AU$90,000 per year (FTE) + super, experience dependent. Casual-to-permanent after three months.

Apply with a short note on the hairiest migration or WordPress fix you’ve done, how you told the client, and what you’ve built outside WordPress. No cover letter needed.

Pay: $70,000.00 – $90,000.00 per year

Benefits:

- Salary packaging
- Travel reimbursement
- Work from home

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Sunshine Coast QLD: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Application Question(s):

- In two or three sentences: the hairiest WordPress fix or migration you’ve handled, and how you explained it to the client.

Work Authorisation:

- Australia (Required)

Location:

- Sunshine Coast QLD (Preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Sunshine Coast QLD

📌 Web Developer - hosting transition, WordPress support, headless builds (Sunshine Coast)
🏢 Strategic Digital
📍 Sunshine Coast