Director of Tech Platforms & IT Security

Liteline; Richmond Hill; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and life insurance

RRSP with company match

Job summary

Liteline Corporation, a leading Canadian commercial lighting manufacturer, seeks a Director of Business Technology to own technology across the business. You will run day-to-day IT and lead the development of home-grown platforms with a focus on security, backups, and recoverability, while enabling rapid, AI-assisted tool building by staff.

You will oversee two on-site IT staff, manage external partners, and own the technology budget, licensing, and vendor relationships.

Qualifications

• Hands-on leadership across IT operations and platform development.
• Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical staff.
• Experience training and enabling non-technical staff.
• Budgeting, vendor management and strategic purchasing.
• Strong security mindset and incident response awareness.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day IT across the business: computers, email, servers, networking, security and backups.
• Run Microsoft 365, MFA, user access and licensing.
• Manage on-prem server cluster, storage and network.
• Oversee security monitoring and incident response with partners.
• Maintain tested backups and restore capabilities.
• Lead the help desk and set service standards.
• Set up and run home-grown platforms and tools.
• Administer Liteline’s GitHub organization (SSO, permissions, branch protection).
• Manage hosted databases (Supabase/Postgres) with backups and access controls.
• Oversee hosting (Netlify) including deployments and domains.
• Inventory and ownership mapping of tools used.

Skills

Hands-on IT leadership

Strong communication

Training non-technical staff

Budget & vendor management

Security awareness

Tools

GitHub

Supabase

Postgres

Netlify

Vercel

SSO

M365 admin

Job description

Liteline Corporation, a leading Canadian commercial lighting manufacturer, seeks a Director of Business Technology to own technology across the business. You will run day-to-day IT and lead the development of home-grown platforms with a focus on security, backups, and recoverability, while enabling rapid, AI-assisted tool building by staff.

You will oversee two on-site IT staff, manage external partners, and own the technology budget, licensing, and vendor relationships.