Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Summary

Join Wavelo, a SaaS company modernizing telecoms, as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer. This remote-first role (for Canadian applicants) centers on designing, building, and maintaining a large-scale, on-premise OpenStack cloud environment. You will drive automation, support development teams, and contribute to infrastructure platform evolution. The ideal candidate possesses a systems background, experience with Linux environments, infrastructure-as-code automation, and collaborative team skills. This position offers a competitive salary and benefits package. Wavelo is part of Tucows, a global internet services company with a people-first philosophy.

Requirements

• 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
• 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

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

Benefits

• 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