Senior Migrations Engineer (PHP)

Location: Remote in the United Kingdom

Salary: £80,000–£90,000 per year

Company

hirify.global develops MIS and school management tools used by more than 12,000 schools and trusts, helping education staff work with clearer data and more effective workflows.

What you will do

• Design, build, and evolve the PHP-based Migrations Platform used to onboard schools.
• Own migration SLAs, including success rates, throughput, turnaround times, and service reliability.
• Take services from design through production, implementing logs, dashboards, alerts, and performance improvements.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks, validations, and data integrity checks for the Migration Operations team.
• Lead investigations and root-cause analysis for failed or delayed migrations, driving preventative improvements.
• Collaborate with Onboarding, Support, Product Managers, and engineering teams while mentoring engineers through reviews and pairing.

Requirements

• Considerable software engineering experience with production systems, ideally involving data migration, ETL, or data-heavy workloads.
• Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining PHP applications at scale; Symfony experience is a plus.
• Solid knowledge of relational databases, SQL, data validation, and data integrity techniques, including MSSQL, MySQL, or AWS Aurora.
• Hands-on expertise with AWS, distributed cloud architectures, distributed systems, batch and asynchronous processing, queues, and resilience patterns.
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or a similar language, plus experience with observability platforms, incident management, CI/CD, SLAs, and operational metrics.
• Willingness to support migration cycles during weekends and school holidays, with flexible working hours during peak onboarding periods.

Nice to have

• Experience using agentic AI or interest in increasing productivity with agentic AI tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote and flexible working arrangements.
• 32 days of holiday plus Bank Holidays.
• Life assurance at three times annual salary, private dental insurance, pension, and wellness support.
• Enhanced maternity, adoption, and paternity leave, plus return-to-work maternity coaching.
• Professional development budget, wellbeing initiatives, social events, and one paid volunteering day per year.

Hiring process

• Phone screen.
• First-stage interview.
• Second-stage interview.
• Visa sponsorship is not available.