41 - Senior PHP/Laravel Developer with Infrastructure & DevOps Experience

About the role

We are looking for a Senior PHP/Laravel Developer with hands-on infrastructure and DevOps experience You will develop, maintain, and continuously improve business-critical, data-driven applications, while also helping run the infrastructure they depend on.

The role is approximately 70% software development and application support, and 30% infrastructure and DevOps administration. This allocation may shift temporarily around incidents, releases, and operational priorities.

What you will do:

Development (approx. 70%)

- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain applications using PHP, Laravel, Filament, and PostgreSQL

- Maintain and modernise existing applications, including legacy solutions, while reducing technical debt

- Design and maintain APIs, integrations, and data exchange with other internal systems

- Maintain automated tests, static analysis, code-quality checks, and code-review practices

- Support CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation using Jenkins, Git, and Gitea

- Lead application incident response, including troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions

- Provide code reviews, technical guidance, and knowledge transfer to other developers

Infrastructure and DevOps (approx. 30%)

- Administer a Proxmox high-availability cluster, including Ceph/CephFS, ZFS, and containerised services

- Maintain key services such as PostgreSQL, Jenkins, Gitea, web servers, Icinga, Grafana, and Loki

- Support security, access management, patching, backups, recovery, and capacity planning

- Respond to infrastructure incidents and contribute to service restoration and root-cause analysis

- Improve monitoring, logging, automation, and deployment processes

- Maintain infrastructure documentation, including architecture, configurations, recovery procedures, and runbooks

Tech stack:

PHP 8.4, Laravel 12, Filament 5, PostgreSQL 15, Composer, Git, Gitea, Jenkins, PHPStan, Pest, Laravel Pint, Bruno, Sphinx, Doxygen, Proxmox HA, Ceph/CephFS, ZFS, Linux, containers, Icinga, Grafana, Loki, and OVH-hosted infrastructure

What you bring

- 8+ years of professional experience in software development and related ICT domains

- Proven experience as a senior developer or technical lead

- Strong production experience with PHP and modern frameworks, ideally Laravel

- Experience building and supporting business-critical, data-driven applications

- Strong knowledge of application architecture, APIs, integrations, and relational databases, particularly PostgreSQL

- Solid grasp of secure coding, automated testing, code review, and software quality practices

- Experience with Git-based workflows, Jenkins, and CI/CD pipelines

- Practical systems administration experience across Linux, virtualisation, containers, storage, monitoring, backups, and security

- Experience supporting production infrastructure and handling complex incidents and root-cause analysis

- Strong technical documentation and knowledge-sharing skills

- Ability to work independently while collaborating with technical and non-technical teams

- Professional proficiency in English

- A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience

Strongly preferred

- Experience with Proxmox, Ceph/CephFS, ZFS, Icinga, Grafana, Loki, and OVH-hosted infrastructure

Nice to have

- Experience with master data, product information, supply chain, or procurement systems

ATTENTION UPON DROPPING YOUR APPLICATION:

1. PLEASE ENSURE YOUR TUNGA PROFILE IS FULLY UPDATED

1. Please, IMMEDIATELY send an email to virtuous@tunga.io with subject 'Senior PHP/Laravel & DevOps – Your Name' sharing concrete examples of Laravel development and infrastructure work you've done in production.

We're specifically interested in:

- Laravel applications you've built or maintained: the scale, the stack (PostgreSQL, Filament if any), and key architecture decisions you made

- Testing and code quality practices you've introduced or maintained (Pest, PHPUnit, PHPStan, CI/CD with Jenkins or similar)

- Infrastructure you've administered hands-on: virtualisation (Proxmox, VMware, KVM), storage (Ceph, ZFS), Linux servers, and containers

- Monitoring and logging you've set up or run (Icinga, Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, or similar)

- A production incident you led, either application or infrastructure: how you diagnosed it, the root cause, and what you changed afterwards

- Backup and recovery procedures you've designed or tested

Please point us to production work, not tutorials, side experiments, or course projects.

A short paragraph per example is enough: what you built, your specific role, the scale or context it operated in, and one or two concrete decisions you made.