Systems Administrator

AbCellera Biologics; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Stock options

Active lifestyle allowance

Paid vacation

Flexible work hours

Professional development

Work-life balance

Immigration & Relocation Assistance

Job summary

AbCellera Biologics in Vancouver, BC is seeking a hands-on Systems Administrator to keep our production IT infrastructure running smoothly for researchers and teams across drug discovery, development, and business.

You will manage a hybrid environment (cloud AWS and on-prem), automate routine operations, patching, monitoring, and security, and collaborate with engineering and scientific groups to support in-house platforms and lab integrations.

Qualifications

• Hands-on systems administration experience in production environments.
• Experience with cloud and on-prem infrastructure.
• Experience automating operational tasks and improving reliability.

Responsibilities

• Operate, maintain, and support hybrid cloud/on-prem infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot systems, networking, identity, and access issues.

Skills

Systems admin

Cloud AWS

Automation

Monitoring

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

• We are looking for a hands‑on Systems Administrator to keep our IT infrastructure running smoothly for every team that depends on it: from drug discovery through development and the business behind it
• You’ll work across cloud systems, on‑prem infrastructure, and the platform and tools that support in‑house applications
• This is a generalist role for someone who is curious, technically broad, and energized by variety; one day you’re improving service availability, the next you’re troubleshooting scientific system performance, the next you’re automating away a process that’s been costing the team hours each week
• Operating, maintaining, and supporting our hybrid systems and infrastructure; we operate a mixed environment including cloud (AWS) and on‑prem
• Supporting engineering systems, platforms, and tools that our internal developers and scientists use to build and run in‑house applications
• Troubleshooting issues across systems, networking, identity, and access; exercising judgment on unusual problems and adapting existing approaches when there isn’t a clear precedent
• Partnering with engineering and scientific teams to support integrations between corporate IT, lab instruments, and in‑house platforms
• Digging deeply into your managed systems; automating routine operational work and improving availability and efficiency
• Owning patching, monitoring, and documentation practices across your managed systems

Benefits

• Health Benefits - Stay well with a comprehensive health benefits package that includes health, dental, life and critical illness coverage
• Stock Options - Work together, win together with an ownership stake in AbCellera.
• Active Lifestyle Allowance - Use the active lifestyle allowance for the fitness activities that keep you active and healthy
• Paid Vacation - You work hard and should take well‑deserved time off, starting with a minimum of 3 weeks’ vacation
• Flexible Work Hours - Optimize how you work with flexible work hours.
• Personal & Professional Development - Ignite your curiosity, learn and be inspired through workshops, conferences and programs
• Work-Life Balance - Take the time you need to support yourself and your family.
• Immigration & Relocation Assistance - Get you (and your family) settled into a new city with the help of our team, including personalized immigration support

We’re looking for someone who’s already done this kind of work - running real infrastructure in a production environment - and who’s hungry to keep learning as the environment modernizes around them. You communicate clearly with both technical and non‑technical individuals, and bring solid documentation habits. You’re deeply curious about how systems work end‑to‑end, tools you haven’t used yet, and the science your work supports. You have experience in scientific or manufacturing environments, or working in regulated industries (GxP, SOC2, etc.); this is considered a bonus! You work with modern practices by default; infrastructure‑as‑code, automation, and observability are tools you reach for, not afterthoughts. You have 5+ years of related experience operating production infrastructure, in addition to a Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience in a technical field); candidates with 3+ years of related experience in addition to a Master’s degree will also be considered. You’re a hands‑on technical generalist who’s run cloud and on‑prem environments in production, and you’ve developed instincts for what tends to break and why. You bring strong judgment to unusual problems; you know when to adapt an existing approach, when to elevate, and when to push back on a bad one.