European WiFi-as-a-service operator managing 420,000 access points across 30+ countries
Wifirst operates a managed WiFi infrastructure service across Europe, running 420,000 access points for retail, hospitality, and public-sector clients. The tech stack reflects a mature infrastructure-as-code organization: Terraform, Ansible, and Packer for deployment; Prometheus and Grafana for observability; Consul and Nomad for orchestration; and multi-cloud support (AWS, GCP, Azure, OVH). Hiring is accelerating with 19 roles posted in the last 30 days, heavily weighted toward engineering and operations—a pattern consistent with scaling deployment velocity and network monitoring capabilities.
Wifirst is a privately held European telecom operator founded in 2002, headquartered in Paris. The company designs, deploys, and operates high-performance WiFi infrastructure delivered as a managed service to enterprises and public organizations. With over 20 years of operational experience, Wifirst manages connectivity for major retail, hospitality, and government clients across the UK, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, and France. The business model centers on relieving IT teams from infrastructure management, allowing customers to focus on core operations. Current deployment spans 420,000 WiFi access points in more than 30 countries.
Infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible, Packer), container orchestration (Nomad), service mesh (Consul), observability (Prometheus, Grafana), multi-cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, OVH), and databases (PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis).
Wifirst operates 420,000 WiFi access points across more than 30 countries, primarily in Europe.
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