Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Tucows; Canada; Remote; CAD 114,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Tucows is looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design, build, and maintain a large-scale infrastructure using OpenStack. This remote role requires strong experience with Linux systems, Infrastructure-as-Code, and collaboration across teams to enhance system reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management tools.
• Experience in complex, on-premise environments.
• Extensive background in infrastructure and systems engineering.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and SaltStack.
• Operate systems across multiple data centers and manage the OpenStack environment.
• Automate tasks and support internal tooling primarily in Python.

Skills

Linux systems administration

Infrastructure-as-Code

Automation

Collaboration

Reliability improvement

Tools

Terraform

SaltStack

OpenStack

Prometheus

Grafana

Python

GitHub Actions

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Wavelo is a SaaS business on a mission to make telecoms a breeze.

We provide flexible software that modernizes how communication service providers (CSPs) do business, helping them drive more value, focus on customer experience, and scale their operations faster.

What's New at Tucows

As part of Tucows (NASDAQ:TCX, TSX:TC)—one of the world’s largest Internet services companies—Wavelo is backed by outstanding resources and talent. We embrace a people-first philosophy that is rooted in respect, trust, and flexibility. We believe that whatever works for our employees is what works best for us. It’s also why the majority of our roles are remote-first, meaning you can work from anywhere you can connect to the Internet!

The work we do genuinely changes lives. If this sounds exciting, we’d love to hear from you!

About The Opportunity

We’re looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer with strong infrastructure experience to join our team. This role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining a large-scale, on-premise environment powered by our private OpenStack cloud. You’ll help drive automation, support development teams, and contribute to the evolution of our infrastructure platforms.

This is an ideal role for someone with a systems background—comfortable working across Linux environments, automating infrastructure with code, and collaborating across teams to deliver scalable, reliable solutions.

This is a remote role for applicants in Canada.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain infrastructure using tools like Terraform, SaltStack, and GitHub Actions
• Operate systems across multiple on-prem data centers and manage our OpenStack-based cloud environment
• Collaborate with developers and other engineers to support application needs and improve system reliability
• Automate routine tasks and contribute to internal tooling (primarily in Python)
• Support and extend monitoring, alerting, and observability systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana)
• Participate in technical planning, troubleshooting, and long-term infrastructure projects
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Strong experience with Linux systems administration and infrastructure management
• 3+ years of experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and configuration management tools (e.g., Terraform, SaltStack)
• Experience operating distributed systems and core infrastructure services (e.g., Redis, Consul, Vault, Postgres, Elasticsearch)
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and container orchestration (e.g., GitHub Actions, Nomad or similar)
• Ability to write and maintain lightweight tools or scripts in Python
• Strong collaboration and communication skills—able to work effectively across teams and projects
• A mindset focused on reliability, automation, and continuous improvement
• Quick learner with the ability to adapt to new technologies and environments
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Extensive professional experience in infrastructure, systems, or site reliability engineering
• Proven success working in complex, on-premise environments across multiple data centers
• Demonstrated ability to manage projects independently and translate high-level goals into actionable plans
• Experience working closely with software development teams
• 5+ years of experience working with on-prem infrastructure
  
  

The base salary range for this position is $114,120 - $130,000 CAD for Canadian residents. Other countries will differ. Range may vary on a number of factors including, but not limited to: location, experience and qualifications. Tucows believes in a total rewards offering that includes fair compensation and generous benefits. Learn more about Tucows Benefits.

Want to know more about what we stand for? At Wavelo and Tucows we care about protecting the open Internet, narrowing the digital divide, and supporting fairness and equality.

We also know that diversity drives innovation. We are committed to inclusion across race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability status. We celebrate multiple approaches and diverse points of view.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.

Tucows and its subsidiaries participate in the E-verify program for all US employees.

Learn more about Tucows, our businesses, culture and employee benefits on our site here.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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