Job Description

Role Snapshot

You’ll fortify and scale the AWS-backed platform that powers Tutornow’s online tutoring experience. You’ll steer infrastructure, deployments, monitoring, and reliability for PHP-based services as the product grows. You’ll partner with product and developers to evolve toward a containerized, elastic architecture that is secure, observable, and cost-aware. Italian is required for smooth collaboration across teams and occasional client-facing communication.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and optimize AWS infrastructure for availability, performance, and cost
• Design, implement, and operate secure deployment pipelines with reliable rollback and auditability
• Lead the shift to containerized workloads and scalable environments
• Maintain and improve PHP backend services, schemas, and performance tuning
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to surface and resolve production issues fast
• Manage Linux, web servers, DNS, and email delivery to ensure consistent service quality
• Collaborate on architecture decisions, document runbooks, and mentor teammates

What You Bring

Technical Toolkit

• AWS services: EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, SES, SNS
• PHP frameworks: Laravel or Symfony, SQL databases, query optimization
• Containers and orchestration: Docker, container registries, basic networking
• Web and systems: Linux, Nginx or Apache, DNS, SMTP, TLS, Git, CI/CD
• Observability: metrics, logs, tracing, incident response practices

Professional Experience

• Ship and operate production web applications with strong uptime and recovery targets
• Troubleshoot complex issues across application, database, and infrastructure layers
• Drive infrastructure roadmaps, balancing short-term fixes with long-term scalability
• Communicate clearly in Italian and English, aligning technical and non-technical stakeholders

Nice-to-have

• Experience scaling PHP applications and introducing containers in live systems
• Hands-on with monitoring stacks and deliverability best practices
• Familiarity with AI-assisted dev tools for productivity

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