Infrastructure Engineer

Were 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. Youll 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 youll 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.

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 Forges 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.

• 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 youve designed documented and tested not just configured.

• Real incident response experience: youve been the person paged and youve written what happened afterward.

You dont need to tick every box. Tell us what youve run.

• 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.

Youve run production infrastructure before and you know the difference between something thats configured and something thats designed documented and tested. Youd rather turn tribal knowledge into code and runbooks than keep it in your head partly because its good practice and partly because it means the team isnt dependent on any one person including you.

Youre comfortable being the first dedicated infrastructure hire on a growing team: self-directed enough to set priorities but you loop developers in early since youll 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. Youre based in Canada and youre fine working remotely with overlap during Eastern business hours.

• Competitive Salary. This role offers a salary in the range of $100000 to $135000 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 youre 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.

Three conversations over about two weeks: a 30-minute introduction a two-hour technical session with two of our senior developers where well walk you through our actual infrastructure and talk about what youve 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 applicants 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 youre passionate about building exceptional web applications and thrive in a remote work environment wed love to hear from you. Join us and be part of a collaborative team shaping the future of our platform!