DevOps Laravel Engineer

Dev Ops Laravel Engineer

Department: IT

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: UK

Reporting To: Ed Haynes

Compensation: £65,000 - £75,000 / year

Deter Tech'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 Dev Ops Laravel Engineer will work within the IT function, part of Group Operations, partnering closely with our development team to bring strong Dev Ops practice to the applications that support Deter Tech'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.

• Build, maintain and continuously improve the cloud infrastructure that hosts Deter Tech'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.
• Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using technologies such as Terraform or AWS Cloud Formation, ensuring all cloud infrastructure modifications are submitted via pull requests, version-controlled, peer-reviewed, and signed off prior to execution.
• Fine-tune and scale background queues and caching layers to guarantee low latency or monitoring lag during high-volume alarm spikes.

• Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Laravel applications, automating testing, build and deployment.
• Reduce manual, repetitive work through automation, so the development team can ship changes quickly and safely.
• Support version control workflows and branching strategies that keep releases clean and traceable.
• Architect, configure, and maintain our core AWS cloud footprint (specifically EC2, ECS/containers, RDS, and Lambda) in direct consultation with the Lead Developer, adhering to established system design standards, high availability, and disaster recovery requirements.
• Maintain clear, documented architecture diagrams, operational runbooks, and internal cloud governance in partnership with…