DevOps Engineer, Moodle Sites

Job Description

Moodle with us!

We're the world's most popular learning platform and we’re on a mission to empower educators to improve our world.

Are you passionate about DevOps, development, and open-source communities? We’re looking  for a DevOps Engineer to play a key role in supporting, maintaining and improving Moodle’s Academy and Community sites. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the stability, security, and scalability of our community platforms, leading infrastructure improvements, and contributing to Moodle development efforts.

This is a fully flexible role and candidates can be based anywhere in Europe!

What your new job can look like

At Moodle, no two days will ever be the same, but most days in this role usually involve a mix of:

• Maintaining and enhancing Moodle Community sites, ensuring reliability and performance.
• Upgrading sites to every Moodle minor & major release.
• Implementing improvements and changes to the community sites' front and backend.
• Testing and developing custom features for the community sites.
• Debugging reported problems and providing technical resolutions.

Requirements

We’d love to meet you

Especially if you can tell us about your:

• Strong knowledge of Moodle development.
• Strong PHP programming, SQL, database management and linux scripting experience.
• Knowledge of HTML, CSS, Javascript & Ajax, Python,.
• Extensive experience troubleshooting network, system and application issues: 
• using Docker and Kubernetes orchestration.
• utilising and administration of code repositories (Git / GitHub / GitLab).
• working in a large-scale development environment using hosted AWS infrastructure. 
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written) and a collaborative/team approach to execution.
• Collaborative and team focused attitude, a willingness to embrace the culture, all with a genuine passion for helping Moodle advance our mission.

Desirable, but not essential:

• Experience with MediaWiki cloning and upgrading.
• Experience working in a remote, agile environment. 

Benefits

What's in it for you?

Moodle has a globally diverse team with over 280 team members in more than 25 countries around the world. We’ve built a passionate team of hard-working, driven and diverse people from all over the world, united by a shared belief in the ability of our platform to make a positive difference to our world. We respect our colleagues and value an open and innovative workplace, filled with integrity and of course a strong focus on education (yes, these are our company values!)

In addition to this you can expect:

• Taking on a genuinely flexible, distributed role, working from anywhere in the world

• A fantastic range of benefits, focusing on work-life balance, wellbeing and ‘choosing your own adventure.’
• Working with a global team on a worldwide platform and make a real difference.
• As a certified B Corp, we are proud to be part of a global community of mission-driven companies dedicated to using business as a force for good.

Does all this sound good? If so:

• Click on the following link to apply
• Add your resume and anything else you'd like to add - in English please.
• Press send.

Learn more about Moodle

Moodle is the world’s most trusted online learning solution, with a growing ecosystem of products and services, including Moodle Workplace, Moodle App, MoodleCloud, and more. The engine of our ecosystem is Moodle LMS, the secure and customisable open source learning management platform used by well over 300 million learners worldwide. 

Find out more about us on our website.

At Moodle we are an equal opportunity employer that actively supports diversity and inclusion in the workplace and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We’re committed to fair recruitment and selection practices, ensuring we are drawing from a diverse range of sources to attract and select the very best person for the job. Learn more in our Diversity & Inclusion Charter.