DevOps Laravel Engineer
Owns day-to-day AWS operations for DeterTech's Laravel-based PHP applications: building infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring/alerting, and secure, scalable cloud setups (EC2, ECS, RDS, queues, caching) that stay reliable during real-time alarm surges. Works closely with the Lead Full Stack Developer and development team, taking over cloud ownership in-house.
- Compensation
- £65K–£75K / yr
- Location
- Telford, United Kingdom
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Proven experience in a DevOps or infrastructure engineering role supporting PHP/Laravel applications in production
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling (e.g. GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Jenkins)
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code (e.g. Terraform or Ansible)
- Demonstrated experience implementing Terraform or CloudFormation for IaC in a multi-environment setting (Dev, Staging, Production)
- Strong Linux administration skills and experience with cloud platforms (AWS or Azure)
- Commercial background configuring and managing production AWS environments (EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, IAM, VPC)
- Practical knowledge of containerisation (Docker)
- Experience with relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) and caching technologies (Redis)
- Practical understanding of Laravel internals from an infrastructure perspective (Artisan, queue workers, job processing, caching, Laravel Horizon)
- Security-conscious mindset: access control, secrets management, vulnerability management
- Hands-on experience securing cloud workloads (least privilege, secrets management, network access controls)
- Clear communicator, able to explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders
- Comfortable collaborating alongside external/partner technical specialists to progressively absorb platform ownership
- Comfortable working under the technical governance of a Lead Developer, seeking reviews for infrastructure changes
- Strong technical documentation skills (architecture diagrams, operational runbooks)
Nice to have
- Experience with orchestration (Kubernetes or similar)
- Familiarity with Laravel-specific tooling
- Experience working in a regulated or security-focused industry
- Exposure to observability tooling (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic or Datadog)
- Experience supporting applications used across multiple countries or time zones
- AWS Certifications (e.g. SysOps Administrator, Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer)
- Familiarity with containerised deployments using Docker and AWS ECS
- Experience with high-throughput real-time message queues or streaming architectures (SQS, RabbitMQ, MQTT)
- Experience collaborating with an external 24/7 managed service or out-of-hours monitoring partner
Full description
DevOps Laravel Engineer
Department: IT
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: UK
Reporting To: Ed Haynes
Compensation: £65,000 - £75,000 / year
Description
DeterTech's purpose is giving greater peace of mind to people and communities, every day. The systems and software behind our products need to be as reliable and secure as the physical security solutions we deliver. This role exists to build and maintain the infrastructure, automation and deployment pipelines that keep our Laravel-based applications running smoothly, securely and at scale.
The DevOps Laravel Engineer will work within the IT function, part of Group Operations, partnering closely with our development team to bring strong DevOps practice to the applications that support DeterTech's customers and colleagues across the UK, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden.
This role will take day-to-day operational ownership of our AWS cloud environment under the technical direction and architectural governance of the Lead Full Stack Developer. Working closely alongside the Lead Developer and existing infrastructure specialists, you will share and progressively take on full operational ownership of our cloud footprint—establishing robust auto-scaling, high-availability, and modern infrastructure-as-code practices. You will bridge the gap between cloud infrastructure and application engineering—ensuring event queues, databases, and background workers scale effortlessly during real-time alarm surges, while embedding automated deployment pipelines that help our developers ship quality code safely, predictably, and with full architectural sign-off.
Key Responsibilities
1. Infrastructure and environments
- Build, maintain and continuously improve the cloud infrastructure that hosts DeterTech's Laravel applications, using infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Manage development, staging and production environments so releases are consistent, predictable and easy to roll back if needed.
- Own the configuration and performance of web servers, databases and caching layers supporting our applications.
- Architect, configure, and maintain our core AWS cloud footprint (specifically EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, IAM, and VPC networking, alongside ECS/containers) in direct consultation with the Lead Developer, adhering to established system design standards, high availability, and disaster recovery requirements.
- Collaborate alongside existing infrastructure specialists to capture, map, and record infrastructure knowledge as operational ownership is progressively consolidated in-house, maintaining clear architecture diagrams and operational runbooks.