Senior PHP Architect - Cloud-Native Microservices Lead

Preacta Recruitment; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Job summary

Preacta Recruitment is hiring a Senior PHP Software Engineer to join one of Australia’s best-resourced engineering organisations, building a next-generation cloud-native PHP platform from day one.

You’ll own architecture decisions, production quality, observability and reliability, designing the platform end to end rather than just implementing tickets. The role requires strong PHP and MySQL expertise, AWS integration, and autonomous, high-impact work.

Qualifications

• Recent production PHP experience in a cloud-native environment.
• Experience designing scalable, decoupled microservices.
• Advanced MySQL knowledge including indexing and query tuning.
• Hands-on AWS experience with S3/SQS/SNS/Cognito.
• Ability to own architecture end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Design, build production-grade PHP microservices and cloud-native components from scratch.
• Own MySQL database design, query optimisation, and performance tuning at scale.
• Integrate AWS services (S3, SQS, SNS, Cognito) into a modern cloud-native architecture.
• Use agentic tools (Claude Code, Copilot, Gemini CLI) as day-one requirements.
• Own incident response and observability via CloudWatch and Dynatrace, ensuring reliability.
• Shape technical direction with product, design and QA while maintaining autonomy.

Skills

Production PHP experience

Cloud-native architecture

Microservices design

Observability & reliability

Incident response

Autonomous decision-making

AWS ecosystem

Tools

PHP

MySQL

AWS

CloudWatch

Dynatrace

Claude Code

Copilot

Gemini CLI

Job description

Preacta Recruitment is hiring a Senior PHP Software Engineer to join one of Australia’s best-resourced engineering organisations, building a next-generation cloud-native PHP platform from day one.

You’ll own architecture decisions, production quality, observability and reliability, designing the platform end to end rather than just implementing tickets. The role requires strong PHP and MySQL expertise, AWS integration, and autonomous, high-impact work.