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We are seeking a PHP Developer to join a client's vulnerability remediation program. With security scanning tools identifying more findings than the internal team can address, your role will be to close this gap. This is a hands-on role focused on implementing fixes within the PHP codebase and AWS environment, validating closures, and driving remediation throughput at scale. The ideal candidate possesses extensive PHP experience and practical expertise in remediating security vulnerabilities, not just identifying them.
What You Will Do
- Take prioritized findings from the security backlog and drive them to deployed, validated completion—researching root cause, implementing the correct fix, deploying it, and producing closure evidence for the client's risk program.
- Remediate PHP vulnerabilities hands-on: fix injection, authentication, deserialization, and credential exposure defects; refactor vulnerable patterns; and remove hardcoded secrets.
- Perform dependency and package upgrades using Composer, resolving breaking changes and transitive conflicts.
- Execute AWS-side remediation: configuration hardening, IAM adjustments, and secret rotation—migrating credentials to a managed secrets store in coordination with the Remediation Lead.
- Validate every fix through automated tests and confirm the finding no longer reproduces.
- Identify recurring patterns that warrant a systemic fix rather than repeated one-off remediation, and contribute them to the team playbook.
- Work embedded with the client's engineering team, following their branching, code review, CI/CD, and definition of done.
- Support client engineers in adopting secure coding practices.
What We Require
- Professional PHP development experience—including work on legacy or inherited codebases. Recent, active PHP work is required.
- Hands-on security remediation experience—you must have personally fixed OWASP Top 10 class vulnerabilities at code level. Conceptual understanding is not sufficient.
- Excellent English communication skills—daily written and spoken collaboration with a US-based engineering team.
- Senior or above seniority level.
- Experience writing automated tests with PHPUnit or equivalent.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
Nice to Have
- Proficiency with Git, code review discipline, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience working with security scanners at volume: Snyk, Veracode, Dependabot, or Checkmarx.
- Prior experience burning down a security or technical debt backlog against throughput targets.
- Modern PHP frameworks (Laravel, Symfony) alongside legacy pre-framework PHP.
- AWS experience specifically with PHP applications: EC2, ECS, Elastic Beanstalk, Lambda, IAM, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, Secrets Manager, or Parameter Store.
- Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Containerization with Docker and ECS or EKS.
- Experience integrating with legacy systems.
Our benefits:
- Health and dental insurance
- Meal and food allowance
- Childcare assistance
- Extended paternity leave
- Partnership with gyms and health and wellness professionals via Wellhub (Gympass) TotalPass;
- Profit Sharing and Results Participation (PLR);
- Life insurance
- Continuous learning platform (CI&T University);
- Discount club
- Free online platform dedicated to physical, mental, and overall well-being
- Pregnancy and responsible parenting course
- Partnerships with online learning platforms
- Language learning platform
- And many more!
More details about our benefits here: https://ciandt.com/br/pt-br/carreiras
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