Systems Administrator (Lead)

Rebel$90K — $130K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 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

Responsibilities

  • Lead a small, sharp Systems team
  • Run agile workflows, keeping work moving and priorities clear
  • Own IT operations encompassing access, endpoints, processes, and documentation
  • Drive security practices including patching and access control
  • Manage AWS, servers (Windows & Linux), and other infrastructure
  • Oversee hosting platforms like Plesk and WordPress
  • Improve automation, DevOps, and deployment workflows
  • Strengthen uptime, monitoring, and disaster recovery

Benefits

  • Opportunity for career growth and advancement
  • Smoke-free work environment
  • Downtown location
  • Fully stocked fridge free for all staff
Full Job Description
Position Title: Systems Administrator Team Lead
Location: Ottawa, ON (377 Dalhousie Street)
Work Model: Hybrid - 4 days onsite, 1 day work from home

Role Overview
We'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 Most

We 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 Offer
The 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?

Compensation
CAD $90,000 - $130,000 annually, plus benefits.

How We Hire
As 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.

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