Senior DevOps/ Systems Engineer

Tucows Domains is the world’s largest wholesale domain registrar, responsible for maintaining the health, neutrality, and openness of an important—but largely invisible part of the Internet: the domain name system (DNS).

As part of Tucows—one of the world’s largest Internet companies—Tucows Domains has a rich history of helping make the Internet better, operating globally under the Ascio, Enom, Hover and OpenSRS brands.

What's Next at Tucows

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! Today, over one thousand people from over 20 countries are part of our team.

If this sounds exciting to you, join the herd! 

About the opportunity
As a Senior DevOps / Systems Engineer at Tucows, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our hybrid infrastructure — spanning both on-premises environments and AWS cloud. You will lead the development, enhancement, and migration of systems infrastructure, collaborating with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into scalable, secure, and reliable solutions. In this role, you’ll be a technical leader, mentoring junior engineers, driving automation, and ensuring operational excellence across our platforms.

This is a remote opportunity for applicants in Canada. 

What you’ll do

• Architect, maintain, and enhance hybrid infrastructure across AWS and on-premises data centers.
• Lead migration projects, modernizing legacy systems and integrating them with cloud-native solutions.
  Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and analyze requirements and design scalable solutions.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform and CloudFormation
• Guide testing, monitoring, and incident response for production systems.
• Troubleshoot and resolve system issues, ensuring stability and performance across all environments.
• Oversee containerization and orchestration initiatives with Kubernetes (EKS, on-prem clusters), Docker, or ECS.
• Maintain hardware compatibility and integrations in on-prem environments.
• Stay current with emerging technologies in systems engineering, automation, and cloud services.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers.

What you bring

• 8+ years of experience in systems engineering, DevOps, or site reliability roles.
• Proven experience with AWS infrastructure services (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.).
• Strong hands-on experience managing on-premises infrastructure, including virtualization (OpenStack or similar), networking, and storage systems.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Strong CI/CD pipeline development experience.
• Proficiency in one or more scripting/programming languages (Python, Go, Bash etc.).
• Strong troubleshooting, incident response, and root cause analysis skills.
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, routing, load balancing).
• Strong Linux and Unix fundamentals, server automation, scripting, networking and security experience.
• Experience with configuration management tools (e.g., SaltStack, Ansible or similar).
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a related field — or equivalent experience.

The base salary range for this position is $130,000 to $150,000 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 Tucows we care about protecting the open Internet, narrowing 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 crucial 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.