Expected Start Date: May 1, .

Duration: Engagement expected to last hours (5-7 months)

Work Location: Primarily remote using collaboration tools such as MS Teams.

Must Haves

• 8+ years professional experience designing, building, and modernizing PHP applications, with 5+ years in Symfony (including at least 3 successful framework/runtime upgrade projects).

• Demonstrated experience operating secure, production web applications (hardening, patching, secrets management, SSO/OAuth/SAML integrations TBD).

• Strong background with relational databases (DBMS TBD; e.g., MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQLr), including performance tuning and operational reliability; experience implementing backup/restore and DR strategies.

• Proven track record implementing scheduling/constraint logic, or other complex business rules engines, at scale (education domain experience is a very strong asset).

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