Technical WordPress SEO Specialist – Programmatic Travel Affiliate Site (Elementor/ACF)

We are seeking a highly skilled, tech-savvy technical marketer and WordPress expert to build a scalable, programmatic SEO engine for a travel affiliate website. The platform is hosted on AztecHost and utilizes WordPress alongside the free version of Elementor.
Our primary growth strategy mirrors the "Hub & Spoke" programmatic taxonomy used by enterprise platforms like Booking.com, scaled down to dominate highly targeted, long-tail local travel niches.
Because we are running the free version of Elementor, you must be comfortable working around theme-building limitations by deploying a robust, modular stack using Custom Post Types, Advanced Custom Fields, and shortcut layout loops.

Key Responsibilities:

• Programmatic Architecture: Set up a clean, scalable data structure using CPT UI and Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) to manage destination, landmark, and niche accommodation variables.
• Template Design (Elementor Free): Design a highly optimized, high-converting responsive page layout block. Use AnyWhere Elementor (or equivalent workflow) to dynamically inject the ACF custom fields into the layout.
• Schema & Structured Data: Configure Rank Math SEO to inject proper Review/ItemPage Schemadynamically across all custom post types to secure Google Rich Snippets (star ratings, price blocks).
• Performance Optimization: Audit and configure server-side caching (via LiteSpeed Cache or equivalent on AztecHost) to compress Elementor styling bloat, lazy-load heavy external booking iframes, and maximize Core Web Vitals scores.
• Crawl Budget & Technical SEO: Enforce clean, self-referential canonical tag logic and configure the site’s robots.txt file to block Google from crawling dynamic sorting filter URLs (e.g., ?sort=, ?price=).

Required Experience:

• Proven track record building Programmatic SEO sites or high-scale directory sites in WordPress.
• Expert-level mastery of ACF (Advanced Custom Fields) and managing Custom Post Types.
• Deep understanding of Technical SEO, Core Web Vitals, Schema markup, and indexation controls.
• Experience working with affiliate platforms (specifically travel engines like Booking.com, Expedia, etc.) is a massive plus.
• Comfortable working with standard cPanel hosting environments (AztecHost).