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 to improve educational administration and staff workflows.

What you will do

• Design, build, and evolve the PHP-based Migrations Platform used to onboard schools.
• Own migration SLAs, success rates, throughput, turnaround times, reliability, and service quality.
• Build observable production services with logging, dashboards, alerts, and appropriate resilience patterns.
• Automate operational tasks, validations, and data integrity checks for Migration Operations.
• Lead investigations and root-cause analysis for failed or delayed migrations, driving preventative improvements.
• Collaborate with Onboarding, Support, Product, and Engineering teams, while mentoring fellow engineers.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining PHP applications at scale; Symfony experience is advantageous.
• Solid knowledge of relational databases, SQL, data validation, and data integrity techniques, including MSSQL, MySQL, or AWS Aurora.
• Hands-on AWS experience with services such as EC2, ECS, RDS, SQS, and networking, plus Terraform-based infrastructure as code.
• Strong Python, Bash, or similar scripting skills, with experience in observability platforms, incident management, distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and resilience patterns.
• Practical experience building CI/CD pipelines, defining SLAs, tracking operational metrics, and improving service reliability.
• Willingness to work flexibly during migration cycles, including weekends and school holidays. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Nice to have

• Experience using agentic AI or interest in productivity tooling that includes agentic AI.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements and a remote workplace.
• 32 days of holiday plus bank holidays.
• Wellbeing support, including virtual GP access, mental health support, counselling, and personalised health checks.
• Private dental insurance, pension contributions, life assurance, and enhanced parental leave.
• Professional development budget, charity volunteering day, wellbeing coaching, and team events.

Hiring process

• Phone screen.
• First-stage interview.
• Second-stage interview.