DevOps Engineer

CompanyRoyal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS)

LocationGreater London, England, United Kingdom

Posted At2/18/2026

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Description

The vacancy

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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.

Key Responsibilities

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 severs 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, PostgreSQL, 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.

Essential Criteria

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, back up, and restore
Extensive knowledge of Git and GitHub.
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

Desirable Skills

Experience with configuring and maintain Moodle instances.
Knowledge of AWS CDK/CloudFormation.
Experience with Azure (Creating instances, configuration, monitoring, DNS config, etc.)
Some knowledge of Docker/Kubernetes.
Experience with SendGrid and Azure Graph API.
Knowledge of PHP, Python to help support deployment, configuration and disaster recovery / debugging.
SQL queries.
Some exposure of TypeScript/Next.js/Expo/React Native.

Experience with infrastructure as code.