Senior Software Engineer (PHP/Laravel)

About this role

About the Project:

Things are a little different here because we aren’t just another company. There’s more to Global BrainForce than our innovative technology and agile methodology. We are a Global BrainForce of talented, passionate developers – and together is what makes us who we are as a company.

We care about what we are doing.

The client is an established, Sydney-based education provider . Students across their centres rely on their online learning platform — a Laravel/PHP + MySQL application running in the cloud — supported by a growing in-house data and AI stack (reporting pipelines, analytics dashboards).

The platform runs on Azure today and is partway through a move to AWS.

They are bringing platform engineering fully in-house, and this role is the cornerstone of that move: one senior engineer who runs the platform end-to-end — backend, database, security, and operations — working directly with the Sydney-based technical lead.

What you'll do:

- Run the Laravel/PHP + MySQL platform in production — architecture,
  maintenance, and the roadmap of improvements
- Manage the database — data-model and schema design, performance, and
  capacity as the platform grows.
- Run cloud operations — deployment, monitoring, backups and disaster
  recovery, and participate in on-call, across both Azure and AWS during and
  after the migration.
- Take charge of security — access control, authN/authZ, and regular review of
  a platform that holds sensitive student data. Security here is an engineering
  responsibility, not a checkbox.
- Build out observability — structured logging, observability platforms
  (e.g. Sentry), metrics and tracing, so that any front-end symptom can be
  traced to its backend cause in minutes.
- Enforce release discipline — reproducible builds, pinned dependencies,
  CI/CD, and staged releases where nothing reaches production without passing
  the pipeline.

You wi...