Infrastructure Engineer

Isolocity; Toronto; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote First

Location Independent

Flexible Schedule

Health Insurance + HSA

Fun and supportive environment

Job summary

Isolocity is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer to own the servers and systems behind our Laravel applications running on AWS in Canada and Europe, managed via Laravel Forge. You will codify infrastructure, improve reliability, and support our SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 programs.

You’ll move config to version control (Terraform), design backups and DR tests, and collaborate with developers through PRs. This is a remote-friendly role based in Canada with overlap in Eastern hours.

Qualifications

• Linux server administration in production: nginx, php-fpm, systemd, capacity and memory tuning.
• AWS: EC2, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, security groups, S3.
• Infrastructure-as-code experience, Terraform preferred.
• Backups, redundancy, and disaster recovery you’ve designed, documented, and tested.
• Real incident response experience: you've been the person paged, and you've written what happened afterward.

Responsibilities

• Own the infrastructure behind our Laravel applications on AWS in Canada and Europe, provisioned through Laravel Forge.
• Bring the fleet into code: move configuration out of Forge's UI and into version control (Terraform preferred).
• Own backups, redundancy, and disaster recovery: designed, documented, and tested, including annual DR tests.
• Lay the groundwork for a load-balanced application tier with auto-scaling as the fleet is automated.
• Handle the technical side of SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 programs: IAM, logging, access control, patch hygiene.

Skills

Linux Admin

AWS Core Services

Terraform

Backups & DR

Incident Response

Tools

Laravel Forge

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Job description

We're looking for an experienced infrastructure engineer to take ownership of the servers and systems behind our platform: Laravel applications running on AWS in Canada and Europe, provisioned through Laravel Forge, across a growing fleet of production and client-dedicated environments. You'll bring that infrastructure into code, harden it for reliability and disaster recovery, and be a key technical partner in our SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 programs.

We maintain our infrastructure-as-code on GitHub alongside our application codebase, and you'll collaborate closely with our developers through pull requests and code reviews, bringing the same rigor to infrastructure changes that we already apply to application code.

About Isolocity

Isolocity is a leading provider of quality management software solutions for businesses across various industries including Cannabis, Manufacturing, Vape, Food, and Health Sciences.

Our innovative platform helps organizations streamline their quality processes, ensuring compliance and efficiency. We are committed to empowering our clients with the tools they need to achieve excellence in quality management.

Responsibilities

• Own the infrastructure behind our Laravel applications on AWS in Canada and Europe, provisioned through Laravel Forge: two core applications plus a growing number of client-dedicated environments, including validated environments for regulated clients, each with its own deploy schedule.

• Bring the fleet into code: move configuration out of Forge's UI and into version control (Terraform preferred), building toward monitoring and deploying safety (including rollback).

• Own backups, redundancy, and disaster recovery: designed, documented, and tested, including two full DR tests a year against a stated recovery target.

• Lay the groundwork for a load-balanced application tier, with auto-scaling as a natural next step once the fleet is automated.

• Handle the technical side of our SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 programs: IAM, logging, access control, patch currency while working alongside the compliance team who own the frameworks themselves.

• Be the person we call when something breaks: real incident response, followed by a clear writeup of what happened and why.

Requirements

• Linux server administration in production: nginx, php-fpm, systemd, capacity and memory tuning.

• AWS used in earnest: EC2, RDS, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC and security groups, S3.

• Infrastructure-as-code experience, Terraform preferred.

• Backups, redundancy, and disaster recovery you've designed, documented, and tested, not just configured.

• Real incident response experience: you've been the person paged, and you've written what happened afterward.

You don't need to tick every box. Tell us what you've run.

Bonus Points

• Horizontal scaling behind a load balancer, and auto-scaling groups.

• Redis and background queue workers in production.

• Experience working under formal change control (GxP, SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA).

• Familiarity with a compliance automation platform such as Scrut, Vanta, or Drata.

• GitHub Actions, Laravel, PHP, Laravel Forge.

• AWS certification is welcome but production experience matters more.

About You

You've run production infrastructure before, and you know the difference between something that's configured and something that's designed, documented, and tested. You'd rather turn tribal knowledge into code and runbooks than keep it in your head, partly because it's good practice, and partly because it means the team isn't dependent on any one person, including you.

You're comfortable being the first dedicated infrastructure hire on a growing team: self-directed enough to set priorities, but you loop developers in early since you'll be working alongside them, not around them. You take compliance work (audit trails, access control, patch hygiene) as part of running things well, not as a chore bolted on top. You're based in Canada, and you're fine working remotely with overlap during Eastern business hours.

The Offer

• Competitive Salary. This role offers a salary in the range of $100,000 to $135,000 CAD, depending on your skills and experience.

• Performance-based bonus. Calculated on an annual basis, eligible after your first full year of employment.

• Remote First. We are a fully remote company. We have an all-hands company meet-up a few times a year.

• Location Independent. Work from wherever you feel most productive and happy. Our team members are spread across Canada in cities like Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver.

• Flexible Schedule. We offer true flexibility in working hours. As long as you consistently meet your weekly commitments, you’re free to set your own schedule.

• Health Insurance + Health Spending Account.

• Fun and supportive environment. We encourage a strong connection to the development community and support lifetime learning.

Hiring process

Three conversations over about two weeks: a 30-minute introduction, a two-hour technical session with two of our senior developers where we'll walk you through our actual infrastructure and talk about what you've run, and a final conversation with our VP of Product. References before we make an offer. No take-home.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Applications are evaluated solely based on merit, without regard to the applicant’s race, color, gender, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, or age. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants with disabilities throughout the recruitment, assessment and selection process.

As part of our hiring process, we use AI-enabled tools to help screen and review applications, including video responses. A person reviews all results and makes every final hiring decision.

If you’re passionate about building exceptional web applications and thrive in a remote work environment, we’d love to hear from you. Join us and be part of a collaborative team shaping the future of our platform!