Senior System Administrator

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Toronto, ON
In-Office
Senior level
Edtech • Software
The Role
The Senior System Administrator will manage AWS infrastructure, focusing on security, backup, disaster recovery, and collaborating with engineering for system reliability.
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Company Overview

 At NewRich Network, we empower digital entrepreneurs to turn their dreams into reality. Our mission is simple yet bold: to help people create a balanced, fulfilling lifestyle – while building wealth and independence along the way.

We’re a fast-growing team driven by one vision: a world where anyone can work remotely, chase their passion, and live life on their own terms.

Our platform combines SaaS tools, e-learning programs, and a supportive social network – a one-stop ecosystem designed for creators, entrepreneurs, and dreamers who want more than just a career.

We believe fulfilling work and a healthy work-life balance is key to living a NewRich Lifestyle.

 If you’re motivated, ambitious, and ready to grow with us, we want to hear from you!

Senior System Administrator

We’re seeking a Senior System Administrator to support and scale our infrastructure across cloud and on-prem environments. You’ll be responsible for server and network administration, security hardening, backups, and disaster recovery, while collaborating with the engineering team to keep systems reliable and secure.

Responsibilities
Cloud Resource Management

  • Provision, monitor, and scale EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, CloudFront, etc.
  • Maintain uptime using CloudWatch alarms, Auto Scaling Groups, and Health Checks
  • Support deployment and configuration of core infrastructure components

Security Operations

  • Manage IAM roles, policies, and SCPs (via AWS Organizations)
  • Implement security best practices: MFA for admin users, principle of least privilege, secrets management
  • Set up and monitor AWS WAF, Shield, GuardDuty, and Macie
  • Coordinate vulnerability patching and regular security reviews

Networking & DNS

  • Configure VPC subnets, routing, NAT gateways, and internet gateways
  • Monitor latency and optimize routing using Route 53 strategies
  • Troubleshoot and maintain ALB/NLB load balancers

User Identity & Permissions Management

  • Maintain AWS IAM Identity Center
  • Set up cross-account role assumptions for developers and admins

Backup & Disaster Recovery

  • Configure and automate backups for RDS, DynamoDB, and S3 (including versioning and replication)
  • Ensure and test disaster recovery plans, including regional failover
  • Document and maintain RPO/RTO metrics

Compliance & Logging

  • Maintain audit logs via CloudTrail, AWS Config, and centralized logging systems
  • Support compliance initiatives, including encryption and data retention policies

Documentation

  • Maintain architecture diagrams and infrastructure documentation
  • Create and update runbooks for incident response, failovers, and security events

Requirements
    • Proven experience with AWS services (EC2, RDS, S3, IAM, etc.)
    • Strong knowledge of cloud security best practices and AWS security tools
    • Solid understanding of VPC, routing, subnets, DNS, and load balancing
    • Experience with backup, recovery, and disaster recovery planning in AWS
    • Knowledge of compliance requirements and logging best practices
    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
    • Strong organizational, time-management, and prioritization abilities
    • Self-motivated, able to work independently and support mission-critical systems

Preferred Qualifications

    • BS degree in Computer Science or related field
    • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation
    • AWS Solutions Architect or SysOps Administrator Certification

Benefits
  • Paid Adventure Time – Take an all-expenses-paid remote working trip for 3 weeks to a destination of your choice with one of our remote work-trip partners. On top of that, you’ll have “Me-Days” – flexible personal days you can take whenever you need a reset.
  • Fast Growth, Big Upside – We’re a small, ambitious team. That means more ownership, faster learning, and a real chance to shape the future of our company (and your career).
  • Unlimited Learning – You’ll get full access to every course and program on our NewRich platform. We invest in your growth because your growth fuels ours.
  • Home Office Stipend – Your setup matters. We’ll support you with a budget to create your ideal workspace and provide you with a new MacBook to power your productivity.
  • Annual Retreat – Work remote, but meet the team IRL. Every year we gather in amazing locations – next stop: Colombia.

Excited about this role?

Explore more at https://newrich.com/

We’d love to hear from you!

Top Skills

Aws Cloudwatch
Aws Ec2
Aws Guardduty
Aws Iam
Aws Macie
Aws Rds
Aws S3
Aws Shield
Aws Waf
CloudFormation
Terraform
Vpc
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The Company
HQ: Toronto, ON
14 Employees
Year Founded: 2020

What We Do

We provide education and tools in the lifestyle development industry. Our state of the art E-learning platform allows us to facilitate training and provide meaningful engagement with our users.

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