Enterprise PHP Engineer: Cloud‑Native Microservices

Randstad; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad is recruiting a Senior PHP Engineer to join a Tier 1 Australian financial institution in Sydney. You will design, build and deploy modern PHP applications within a cloud-native, decoupled architecture.

You will lead architectural decisions, build proof-of-concepts, and ensure resilient code for critical platform components, working with cross-functional teams to drive platform evolution and performance.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building enterprise PHP applications for cloud environments.
• Proven capability designing performant, decoupled microservices.
• Strong database performance tuning skills on MySQL at enterprise scale.
• Hands-on AWS experience with event driven and serverless architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy modern PHP applications for a cloud-native platform.
• Lead design decisions and build proof-of-concepts for critical components.
• Collaborate with product teams, domain experts, and software architects to drive architectural evolution.
• Balance short-term delivery with long-term cloud architecture goals.

Skills

PHP

Cloud architecture

Microservices

AWS

MySQL tuning

Observability

Security

Tools

Dynatrace

AWS

MySQL

Job description

Randstad is recruiting a Senior PHP Engineer to join a Tier 1 Australian financial institution in Sydney. You will design, build and deploy modern PHP applications within a cloud-native, decoupled architecture.

You will lead architectural decisions, build proof-of-concepts, and ensure resilient code for critical platform components, working with cross-functional teams to drive platform evolution and performance.