Don't know you, but you're a tireless worker who goes as above and beyond. You've always been there when needed whether it was helping me understand that new online ordering stuff with COVID or just mowing my lawn when you were younger. I would definitely love to have someone like you as an employee. Send them my way
Either tailscale the network and not worry about it being "public facing" or if it must be somewhere in the denizens then an outbound only connection between a secure remote server and my server.