New IT officer needed!

IT Officer is now an elected position, ou can nominate yourself here.
You can apply (and have a good chance of being elected) even if you don't meet the criteria below, but your life will be much easier if you do. With any questions please contact uiyeoc.coislitku@mcuc.st

We are looking for a candidate willing to operate the Society's IT infrastructure, in particular:

• maintain and keep the Music Society website and the UC Opera website up-to-date
• maintain and configure the audition system and provide support for committee members running auditions
• maintain the Society's mailserver and provide support for client configuration

Skills required:

• Good knowledge of GNU/Linux, using the command line via SSH in particular
• Good knowledge of HTML and CSS
• Basic knowledge of PHP and (My)SQL
• Familiarity with git
• Basic knowledge of mailserver operation, including related protocols and domain name records
• Basic knowledge of how to configure ngnix and apache webservers
• Basic understanding of DNS, SSL certificates and server security

Familiarity with any of the following tools / technologies would be a great advantage:

• Laravel framework
• October CMS
• Twig template engine
• SCSS
• Markdown
• UCL API
• LXD (containers)
• Docker
• certbot (Let's Encrypt)
• cron
• postfix and dovecot
• Mailcow
• systemd
• OpenRC
• Ubuntu (and the apt package manager)
• Alpine Linux

Once getting familiar with the system, the job requires relatively few working hours throughout the academic year. You gain the opportunity to potentially boost your CV, while greatly helping the Society and get a large freedom to shape the Society's public image.

To maintain continuity, an ideal candidate would provisionally spend at least 2 years at UCL and in the Music Society, but applications for a single year are also encouraged.