Senior PHP Engineer – Symfony Migration & DevOps Lead

Stockford Recruitment; Manchester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A UK digital healthcare business is seeking a Senior/Lead Developer to modernise PHP systems into Symfony. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, the role involves enhancing infrastructure, ensuring security, and managing releases across multiple platforms. Ideal candidates have strong PHP experience, familiarity with DevOps principles, and Linux admin skills. This is a long-term opportunity in a stable environment with some weekend support required.

Qualifications

• Experience in modernizing legacy systems, preferably with Symfony.
• Confident in CI/CD and automation.
• Experience with Linux (Ubuntu) administration.

Responsibilities

• Modernise and rebuild legacy PHP systems into Symfony.
• Deliver new platform features aligned to business needs.
• Own release management across various systems.
• Maintain CI pipelines and automate processes.
• Support Ubuntu infrastructure and key web services.
• Strengthen security controls.
• Improve resilience through disaster recovery testing.

Skills

PHP

Web engineering

DevOps fundamentals

Automation scripting

Linux (Ubuntu)

Security awareness

Job description

A UK digital healthcare business is seeking a Senior/Lead Developer to modernise PHP systems into Symfony. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, the role involves enhancing infrastructure, ensuring security, and managing releases across multiple platforms. Ideal candidates have strong PHP experience, familiarity with DevOps principles, and Linux admin skills. This is a long-term opportunity in a stable environment with some weekend support required.