DevOps and WordPress/PHP Engineer

DevOps & WordPress/PHP Engineer Remote – UK Based £32,000 + performance-related bonus Full-time, permanent We’re looking for a DevOps & WordPress/PHP Engineer to join our UK-based software engineering team. This is a mixed technical role combining Azure infrastructure and DevOps responsibilities approximately two days per week, with WordPress, PHP and JavaScript development approximately three days per week. You’ll work remotely as part of our UK team, managing and improving the infrastructure behind our applications while also contributing directly to WordPress and PHP development. The role DevOps & Azure – approximately 2 days per week You’ll be responsible for supporting and improving our cloud infrastructure and deployment processes, including: * Managing and maintaining Microsoft Azure environments * Building, running and troubleshooting Docker-based applications * Creating and maintaining Dockerfiles and Docker Compose configurations * Managing CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments * Supporting containerised development, staging and production environments * Managing application hosting, networking and cloud infrastructure * Monitoring application and infrastructure health * Troubleshooting deployment, hosting and performance issues * Supporting security, patching, backups and disaster recovery * Managing environment configuration and secrets * Supporting infrastructure-as-code and configuration management * Working with developers to improve reliability, deployment processes and developer experience WordPress & Software Engineering – approximately 3 days per week You’ll contribute to the development and maintenance of WordPress websites and related applications, including: * WordPress theme and plugin development * PHP development * JavaScript development * HTML and CSS * WordPress hooks, filters and APIs * Custom post types, taxonomies and Gutenberg/block development * Integrating third-party APIs and services * Troubleshooting WordPress issues * Performance optimisation * Security and maintenance * SQL/database work * Git-based development workflows You’ll work across existing applications as well as new development, implementing features, resolving issues and improving the quality and maintainability of our platforms. Essential experience You should have practical commercial experience across both software development and DevOps. We’re looking for experience with: * Docker * Microsoft Azure * Linux * CI/CD pipelines * Git and GitHub or Azure DevOps * WordPress development * PHP * JavaScript * MySQL or MariaDB * Nginx or Apache * Application deployment and troubleshooting * Monitoring and logging * Web and cloud security fundamentals You should be comfortable using the command line, diagnosing infrastructure issues and understanding how an application moves from source code through CI/CD into a production environment. Desirable experience Experience with some of the following would be useful: * Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tooling * Azure App Service * Azure Container Apps * Azure Front Door * Azure Storage * Azure networking * GitHub Actions * Azure DevOps pipelines * Redis * Composer * WP-CLI * Bash scripting * Container registries * Application performance monitoring * DNS, TLS/SSL and HTTP * Vulnerability scanning and dependency management You do not need to be an expert in every technology, but you should be comfortable working across both infrastructure and application code. Location and security requirements This is a fully remote role, but applicants must be based in the UK and have the right to work in the UK. Our work includes projects for UK public-sector organisations. The successful applicant will be required to complete a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check. Salary £32,000 base salary, plus performance-related bonuses. You’ll join a UK engineering team working across cloud infrastructure, containerisation, DevOps, WordPress and software engineering, with scope to take increasing responsibility for the reliability and operation of the platforms we deliver.