Description
We are currently recruiting for a Senior Software Developer to join a client based in Cardiff on a
3 Month initial contract
Daily Rate: Dependant on experience - £250 - £300
Duration: 3 Month Initial Contract with possibility to extend
Location: Cardiff
Clearance: Must be eligible for Disclosure Scotland security clearance.
Key Tasks and Deliverables:
Our client is looking for an experienced Senior Software Developer to work on upgrading our Moodle eLearning environment:
- Take stock and establish current baseline. Remove unneeded copies of Moodle from previous aborted upgrades and ensure the development version matches live. Ensure sufficient space is available for upgrade activities.
- Upgrade Development version from 2.5 to 3.x.
- Reapply customizations and ESR report to development.
- Create duplicate of live environment and upgrade it from 2.5 to 3.x
- Upgrade live 2.5 installation to 3.x.
- Undertake any remediation action from UAT or Penetration testing
- Upgrade the Back End database from MySQL to MS SQL Server 2008 R2
- You must have the ability to work independently, having strong organisational and project management skills, and be able to manage the delivery of the new version by July 2016.
- A sound technical grounding in Moodle, PHP, MySQL/MS SQL Server and Apache is essential.
- Proven evidence that you have upgraded Moodle in a Windows environment with PHP, MySQL and Apache.
- Ability to configure and tune the environment.
- Experience of configuring more than one instance of Moodle to run in the same environment.
- Ability to customize the source code for local requirements.
- Installation of Moodle with MS SQL Server 2008 R2.
- Follow ITIL change control
- Proven experience in the delivery of complex information systems.