Job Opportunities¶
This page gives an overview of the Job Opportunities, describing its current status, where and how it's developed and deployed, and who is responsible for maintaining it.
Service Description¶
Welcome to the University of Cambridge's Job Opportunities pages. Here you can view our current vacancies and those of many Cambridge colleges and affiliated institutions. You can also find all of the information you need about working for one of the world's oldest and most successful universities.
Service Status¶
The Job Opportunities is currently live.
Note
The current service requires complete re-development. Work is currently (Q2-2024) being completed
to migrate the existing deployment to GCP as a means of continuing to offer the service in the interim.
Contact¶
The primary contacts for the Job Opportunities are Simon Virr and Andrew Rowland.
The service manager is Andrew Crook
Issues discovered in the service or new feature requests should be opened as GitLab issues in the application repository.
Environments¶
The Job Opportunities is currently deployed to the following environments:
| Name | URL | Supporting VMs |
|---|---|---|
| Production | http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/ | silver, ellington |
| Staging | http://staging.jobs.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk/ | jackson |
| Development | http://dev.jobs.internal.admin.cam.ac.uk/ | rich |
Source Code¶
The source code for the Job Opportunities is spread over the following repositories:
| Repository | Description |
|---|---|
| Application Server | The source code for the main application server |
| Infrastructure Deployment | The Terraform infrastructure code for deploying the application server to GCP |
Technologies Used¶
The following gives an overview of the technologies the Job Opportunities is built on.
| Category | Language | Framework(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Application | PHP | N/A |
Monitoring¶
App logs to /home/httpd/www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/logs.
Apache logs to usual location (currently /var/log/httpd).
Service Management¶
The service owner for the Job Opportunities is Liz Timperley-Preece (HR).
The service manager for the Job Opportunities is Andrew Crook
The tech lead for the Job Opportunities is TBD
The following engineers have operational experience with the Job Opportunities and are able to respond to support requests or incidents: