Senior Platform / Site Reliability Engineer — LAMP & AWS

Senior Platform / Site Reliability Engineer — LAMP & AWS

Location: London, UK – Hybrid

Occasional Travel: Basingstoke

Start Date: ASAP

Salary: Competitive / Best Salary

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Platform / Site Reliability Engineer to join our team and take ownership of the reliability, operational support and gradual modernization of established platforms.

The role is primarily focused on maintaining and supporting a legacy Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP (LAMP) environment , including troubleshooting, break-fix and operational support. Alongside this, you will play an important role in containerizing existing scripts and services using Docker and supporting their migration to modern AWS infrastructure .

This is a hands-on platform and operations role focused on pragmatic modernization rather than a wholesale application rewrite.

Key Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues across the existing LAMP platform, Linux servers, scripts and services .
• Provide hands-on operational support and break-fix activities to maintain service continuity.
• Improve the reliability, stability and maintainability of the existing legacy environment.
• Containerize existing scripts and services using Docker for deployment on AWS infrastructure.
• Support incremental re-platforming and cloud migration , including lift-and-shift and selective modernization.
• Work across web servers, databases, operating systems and operational scripts to identify and resolve issues.
• Take ownership of technical issues and drive them through to resolution with minimal supervision.
• Work effectively in environments where documentation or formal handover may be limited.
• Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders and provide appropriate updates on operational issues.
• Help establish more robust and maintainable approaches to platform operations and deployment.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on experience with LAMP environments — Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP.
• Strong Linux system administration and troubleshooting experience.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot across web servers, databases, applications and operational scripts .
• Practical experience supporting production environments and maintaining service reliability.
• Experience with AWS cloud migration / re-platforming projects.
• Experience with lift-and-shift and selective modernization approaches.
• Experience converting legacy scripts or services into containerized workloads.
• Exposure to DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering or Platform Engineering practices.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and containerization .
• Experience working with or migrating legacy, manually configured systems towards modern cloud infrastructure.
• Ability to take ownership quickly and operate effectively with minimal supervision.
• Experience improving operational processes, automation, monitoring and platform reliability.

What We're Looking For

We are looking for a self-sufficient, hands-on engineer who is comfortable working with established technologies while helping move platforms towards modern cloud infrastructure.

You should be someone who can troubleshoot independently, take ownership, communicate effectively and balance immediate operational priorities with longer-term modernization goals .

If you have strong LAMP/Linux expertise combined with AWS and Docker experience and enjoy solving complex platform and reliability challenges, we would like to hear from you.