Senior PHP Engineer: Cloud‑Native Microservices Expert

randstad digital australia; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad Australia is seeking a Senior PHP Engineer to join a Tier 1 Australian financial institution in Sydney. You will drive the evolution of a market-leading strata platform, designing, building and deploying modern PHP applications in AWS with decoupled microservices.

You will collaborate with cross-functional product teams, domain experts and software architects, balancing short-term delivery with long-term cloud architecture. Strong MySQL tuning and hands-on AWS are required.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building enterprise PHP apps for cloud environments.
• Proven ability designing performant, resilient microservices.
• Strong MySQL performance tuning for enterprise databases.
• Hands-on AWS experience with event-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and deploy modern PHP applications.
• Lead design decisions for core platform and microservices.
• Collaborate with product teams and architects on cloud architecture.
• Write resilient, scalable code for critical components.

Skills

PHP 8.x

Microservices

Cloud architectures

MySQL tuning

Tools

AWS

Serverless

S3/SQS/SNS

Job description

Randstad Australia is seeking a Senior PHP Engineer to join a Tier 1 Australian financial institution in Sydney. You will drive the evolution of a market-leading strata platform, designing, building and deploying modern PHP applications in AWS with decoupled microservices.

You will collaborate with cross-functional product teams, domain experts and software architects, balancing short-term delivery with long-term cloud architecture. Strong MySQL tuning and hands-on AWS are required.