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Job DescriptionAbout the Role
We are seeking a Senior Drupal / WebOps Engineer to help operate, maintain, and extend a large-scale enterprise web platform powering 400+ Drupal sites. This role sits at the intersection of application engineering and platform operations, ensuring reliable, scalable deployments across a multi-site architecture.
You will build on modern automation foundations (GitHub Actions, Pantheon Terminus, Quicksilver) and drive improvements in release velocity, reliability, and observability across the platform.
What You’ll Work On
CI/CD & Platform Automation
Maintain and extend GitHub Actions-based CI/CD pipelines
Manage automated workflows for MultiDev environment creation (Pantheon), Canary deployments, phased releases, and fleet-wide upstream deployments
Troubleshoot pipeline failures and improve resiliency and observability
Enhance automation around release processes, including changelog generation and deployment validation
Pantheon & Hosting Operations
Work with Pantheon platform tooling (Terminus CLI, MultiDev environments, upstream management, and site orchestration)
Support platform stability, deployment workflows, and environment lifecycle management
Drupal Engineering (Backend Focus)
Contribute to and maintain a Drupal 10-based multi-tenant platform
Develop and support custom modules, integrations, and backend logic
Debug and resolve issues across a shared codebase impacting multiple sites
Ensure best practices for performance, security, and maintainability
Automation & Observability
Extend automation using Quicksilver (even-driven workflows) and messaging integrations (e.g., Google Chat notifications)
Improve visibility into system health, deployment outcomes, and failures
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Qualifications
Core Requirements
+90% English written and oral (at least C1 level) with excellent communication skills
3–6+ years of experience with Drupal (8/9/10) and PHP
Experience working with the Pantheon hosting platform
Hands-on experience with Terminus CLI, MultiDev workflows, and upstream-based Drupal architectures
Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar)
Comfortable debugging across application code, deployment pipelines, and hosting/platform environments
Experience working in multi-site or multi-tenant architectures
Strong understanding of version control (Git), deployment strategies (canary, phased rollouts), and environment management (dev/test/prod isolation)
Ability to work across both application code and infrastructure workflows
Nice-to-Have (Bonus Skills)
Frontend experience with Vue.js and TypeScript
Scripting or backend experience with Node.js or Python
Experience with accessibility standards (WCAG, VPAT)
Familiarity with search platforms (MongoDB Atlas Search, vector search, RAG systems)
Knowledge of release automation patterns (auto-generated changelogs, commit parsing, etc.)
What Success Looks Like
CI/CD pipelines are stable, fast, and require minimal manual intervention
Deployments across 400+ sites are predictable and low-risk
Platform automation continues to evolve and improve
Drupal platform remains stable and maintainable across tenants
Issues are proactively identified through improved observability and alerts
Why This Role Matters
Our platform supports a large portfolio of enterprise websites with a bi-weekly release cadence. Maintaining and evolving the systems that power these releases is critical to platform stability, developer productivity, and client trust. This role ensures we continue to operate at scale while improving the systems that make that scale possible.
Skills Required
- 3-6+ years of experience with Drupal (8/9/10) and PHP
- Experience working with the Pantheon hosting platform
- Hands-on experience with Terminus CLI and MultiDev workflows
- Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or similar)
- Experience working in multi-site or multi-tenant architectures
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive for core hiring markets, with “good salary” cited in multiple locales. Public salary snapshots provide a baseline that helps candidates assess offers and negotiations.
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Flexible Benefits — Remote or hybrid options are prominently highlighted, and a remote‑work program is publicly noted alongside positively cited work‑from‑home experiences. Flexibility around schedules and location is presented as part of the package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Private medical care, language classes, sports/fitness support, and learning initiatives are listed for several Central/Eastern European locations, with occasional workation perks promoted. These lifestyle‑oriented offerings complement base pay and can enhance perceived total rewards.
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What We Do
Software Mind is a global digital transformation partner with operations throughout Europe, the US and LATAM. Driven by tech and empowered by people, we provide companies with software engineers and autonomous, cross-functional development teams who manage software life cycles from ideation to release and beyond. For over 20 years we’ve been enriching organizations with the talent they need to boost scalability, drive dynamic growth and bring disruptive ideas to life. Our top-notch engineering teams combine ownership with leading technologies, including cloud, AI, data science and embedded software to accelerate digital transformations and boost software delivery. A culture, driven by trust, that embraces openness, craves more and acts with respect enables our experts to create evolutive solutions that support scale-ups, unicorns and enterprise-level companies around the world.









