Software and Infrastructure Engineer

You will contribute to developing, deploying, and maintaining the application supporting the Open Research Europe publishing platform based on Open Journal Systems (OJS). Working under the guidance of a senior engineer, you will develop, test, and operate the platform and its integrations to ensure secure and reliable service delivery in close collaboration with the business and editorial operations team.

• Contribute to developing the OJS application and plugins, testing integrations with external services.
• Contribute improvements to open-source projects such as OJS and related components.
• Assist in the deployment and maintenance of the Open Research Europe infrastructure using Kubernetes/Open Shift and automated CI/CD workflows.
• Participate in system testing, performance checks, documentation of procedures, and day-to-day operational support.

• Demonstrated experience in developing web applications, in particular PHP and Laravel stack.
• Familiarity with Open Journal Systems (OJS) source code, plugin system and workflows will be a plus.
• Experience with containerised infrastructure and orchestration tools (Kubernetes or Open Shift),…