DevOps Engineer

Job Purpose

• To support the RCVS’s infrastructure needs, ensuring server availability and stability.
• To work with the development team developing new and maintaining existing applications, services, and interfaces.
• To support all other team members in delivering project work in a timely fashion.

• Keep all the RCVS’s AWS (Linux) servers up to date and patched, monitor them for any outages and bring them on and offline as required.
• Track and keep records of all servers and services in use.
• Monitor usage cost and propose/implement improvements where possible.
• Retire AWS servers and services when no longer required.
• Create and configure new servers and other infrastructure as required.
• Install and configure software packages (Apache, Nginx, PHP, Python, Postgre
  
  SQL, MySQL, etc).
• Backup and restore data from both databases and file stores for the purposes of moving data sets between servers.
• Configure and monitor AWS backup plans and monitor usage details. Delete redundant backups as required.
• Configure and manage Cloudflare firewalls and DNS, including creating new DNS entries and retiring domains when they are no longer needed.
• Install, configure and renew SSL certificates.
• Assist in the implementation and configuration of CI/CD build pipeline for AWS deployment scripts.
• Provide technical support for RCVS Knowledge; assist in securing, patching, backing up, and replacing their legacy websites and applications; assist in implementing shared platforms or functionality when appropriate while respecting the charity’s separate nature.
• Support colleagues in managing and documenting application configuration and maintenance.
• Maintain careful and clear records of all server changes to enable efficient monitoring and reporting.

• Extensive experience of AWS servers and services and other AWS infrastructure.
• Knowledge of build systems (CI/CD and blue‑green deployment)
• Experience with DB installation, configuration, backup, and restore
• Extensive knowledge of Git and Git Hub.
• Extensive experience of shell scripting (including bash, .sh, .yml, etc.)
• Familiar with common configuration formats (e.g. YAML, TOML, JSON)
• Used to working with a command line interface
• DNS setup and SSL certificates
• Cloudflare set up and configuration

• Experience with configuring and maintaining Moodle instances.
• Knowledge of AWS CDK/Cloud Formation.
• Experience with Azure (Creating instances, configuration, monitoring, DNS config, etc.)
• Some knowledge of Docker/Kubernetes.
• Experience with Send Grid and Azure Graph API.
• Knowledge of PHP, Python to help support deployment, configuration and disaster recovery / debugging.
• SQL queries.
• Some exposure of Type Script/Next.js/Expo/React Native.
• Experience with infrastructure as code.

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