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

Tunga; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Tunga is seeking a Senior PHP/Laravel Developer with hands-on infrastructure and DevOps experience to build, maintain, and continuously improve business-critical, data-driven applications while supporting the underlying infrastructure.

The role is about 70% software development and 30% infrastructure/DevOps, including API design, testing, CI/CD, incident response, and mentoring. Strong PHP/Laravel and PostgreSQL expertise required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong production experience with PHP and modern frameworks (Laravel preferred).
• Experience designing and maintaining APIs and data integrations.
• Solid knowledge of relational databases, especially PostgreSQL, and data modeling.
• Secure coding practices, automated tests, and code review processes.
• Experience with Git-based workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment tooling.
• Practical systems administration across Linux, virtualization, containers, storage, backups and security.
• Ability to work independently and communicate with both technical and non-technical teams.
• Professional proficiency in English.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain applications using PHP, Laravel, Filament, and PostgreSQL.
• Maintain and modernise existing applications and reduce technical debt.
• Design and maintain APIs and integrations with internal systems.
• Maintain automated tests, static analysis, and code-quality checks.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation with Jenkins, Git, and Gitea.
• Lead incident response with root-cause analysis and corrective actions.
• Provide code reviews and knowledge transfer to other developers.
• Participate in infrastructure improvements and documentation.

Skills

PHP/Laravel

DevOps

PostgreSQL

API design

CI/CD

Code reviews

English proficiency

Software architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Git

Jenkins

Gitea

Proxmox

Ceph/CephFS

ZFS

Grafana

Icinga

Loki

Job description

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