Position Title: Systems Administrator Team LeadLocation: Ottawa, ON (377 Dalhousie Street)
Work Model: Hybrid - 4 days onsite, 1 day work from home
Role OverviewWe're hiring a Systems Administrator Team Lead to lead our Systems Team, responsible for reliable, secure, and scalable operations across IT, cloud/server infrastructure, hosting platforms, and Live Production Support (LPS).
You'll combine hands-on systems administration and platform engineering with people leadership-setting priorities, improving processes, and ensuring strong service delivery and operational excellence.
What You'll Do- Lead a small, sharp Systems team
- Run agile workflows. Keep work moving and priorities clear
- Own IT operations. Access, endpoints, processes, documentation
- Drive security practices. Patching, access control, incident readiness
- Manage AWS, servers (Windows & Linux), and infrastructure
- Oversee hosting platforms (Plesk, WordPress)
- Improve automation, DevOps, and deployment workflows
- Strengthen uptime, monitoring, and disaster recovery
- Participate in on-call and support production when it matters
What Matters MostWe can teach tools. We can't teach mindset.
We're looking for someone who:
- Takes ownership and follows through
- Stays calm under pressure and solves problems
- Knows how to lead without overcomplicating things
- Balances technical depth with practical decision-making
What You Bring- Experience leading a small technical team
- Strong systems admin background (Windows + Linux)
- Solid AWS experience (IAM, networking, compute, storage)
- Exposure to DevOps practices and Git workflows
- Experience with hosting environments (Plesk, WordPress)
- Comfort with incident response and on-call environments
What We OfferThe opportunity to work in an atmosphere that truly rewards hard work and creative thinking. We offer a competitive salary, benefits, and opportunities for growth and advancement within our company.
As if that wasn't enough we also offer a smoke-free environment, a downtown location, a fully stocked fridge free for all staff. If Rebel sounds like the perfect workplace for you, there is only one question- What are you waiting for?
CompensationCAD $90,000 - $130,000 annually, plus benefits.
How We HireAs part of this recruitment process, we use automated or artificial intelligence-enabled tools to support the screening and assessment of candidates' applications. All hiring decisions are made by our team.