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At Moodle, we&aposre on a mission to empower educators and learners worldwide with open, flexible, and innovative digital learning solutions. As the world&aposs most customisable and trusted open-source LMS, we partner with schools, universities, and organisations to create better learning experiences for millions. If you&aposre ready to make a real impact, and be part of a global movement shaping the future of learning, join us let&aposs transform education together!
This role can be remote within the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.
About The Role
Are you a passionate DevOps Engineer ready to architect, maintain, and innovate high-scale, AWS-based infrastructure for a global learning platform Join our dynamic MoodleCloud Technical Operations team where you&aposll co-own highly available systems, champion CI/CD best practices, and play a crucial role in ensuring the seamless performance and automation of our hosting solutions. If you thrive in a collaborative and problem-solving environment then this role is for you.
What You&aposll Do
- Co-own and evolve our highly available, AWS-based infrastructure, ensuring seamless performance for a global learning platform
- Lead exciting DevOps projects that shape the future of MoodleCloud
- Champion and implement best practices for deployment, availability, performance, and automation
- Drive continuous improvement in our CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and configuration management
- Proactively identify and propose innovative new projects to enhance our technical landscape
- Maintain and update critical documentation, ensuring clarity and accuracy for all
- Keep our applications cutting-edge by taking ownership of application updates
- Contribute expertise through meticulous code reviews for our applications
- Collaborate on quality by writing and reviewing comprehensive test plans
- Resolve critical infrastructure issues swiftly and effectively, minimising impact
- Engage and support our vibrant community forums, sharing your knowledge
- Provide timely resolution and clear communication during critical incidents
- Join a collaborative team that values your input and active participation in agile practices
Requirements
We&aposd love to meet you
Especially if you can tell us about your:
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical team members
- Proven experience designing, building, and maintaining robust web application infrastructure
- Skilled in creating and maintaining multi-tenant, multi-region, highly available systems
- You have product-led environment experience and are comfortable working within a dynamic, product-focused software organisation
- Strong understanding and practical experience with CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code principles and methodologies
- Proficient in general security concepts and best practices across servers, networks, and applications
- Extensive experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure (VPC, Elasticache, Lambda, Security Groups, IAM, EC2, RDS, S3, etc.)
- Expertise in monitoring and troubleshooting network, system, and application issues
- Solid background in Linux system administration, ideally with Ubuntu or Debian
- Good experience with monitoring and logging within diverse ecosystems
- Experience with SQL databases, specifically PostgreSQL and MySQL on AWS RDS
Bonus Points
- You have relevant AWS Certifications, with bonus points for Python/PHP knowledge and Moodle project contributions
Technologies you&aposll work with:
- AWS (broadly and deeply)
- Configuration Management (Chef)
- Configuration Orchestration (Cloudformation)
- Source Control (Git)
- Databases (PostgreSQL on RDS, MySQL is also desirable but secondary)
- CI (Gitlab, Jenkins)
- Linux (Ubuntu)
- Storage clustering tool (Ceph/Gluster)
Benefits
What&aposs in it for you
Moodle has a globally diverse team with over 280 team members in more than 25 countries around the world. We&aposve 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.&apos
- 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
Learn more about Moodle
Moodle is the world&aposs 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&aposre 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.
