The Impact Youll Make
As a Senior Systems Administrator at Recursion you will be at the forefront of ensuring our IT infrastructure and applications run seamlessly across cloud and onpremises environments. You will take ownership of the daytoday operations administration and maintenance of systems including physical and virtual servers endpoints cloud platforms and network infrastructure. Your role will directly support Recursions mission to decode biology by enabling cuttingedge research and innovation through reliable IT services. From ensuring operational excellence in systems performance to driving proactive solutions for security and compliance youll play a key role in empowering teams across the company to achieve their goals.
In this role you will:
- Systems Administration: Manage maintain and optimize IT and cloud infrastructure including servers endpoints (Windows macOS mobile devices) storage solutions and collaboration tools (e.g. Box Google Workspace and Microsoft Cloud/Sharepoint).
- Application Support: Oversee and troubleshoot SaaS applications monitoring tools security solutions and enterprise collaboration platforms to ensure uptime and performance.
- Audio Visual: Ensure reliable AV system performance across meeting spaces and lead setup for highprofile events addressing issues and coordinating upgrades as needed.
- Network Administration: Configure maintain and troubleshoot network infrastructure including switches firewalls and access points for both onpremise and cloud environments.
- Security Posture: Monitor and enhance the security posture of critical infrastructure across cloud and onpremises systems proactively addressing vulnerabilities.
- Process Automation: Automate repetitive processes using industrystandard tools and scripting languages to improve efficiency and reduce errors.
- Collaboration and Documentation: Work closely with IT Engineers to operationalize new solutions create detailed runbooks and ensure operational monitoring tools are effectively configured.
- Mentorship and Leadership: Share your expertise to mentor team members enhance their technical capabilities and foster a culture of continuous learning.
- Oncall Support: Provide oncall services to ensure timely responses to critical IT issues.
Location:
This position is based at our headquarters in Salt Lake City.
The Team Youll Join
The IT team at Recursion is a dynamic group of specialists engineers and administrators dedicated to securely enabling Recursion to move fast and innovate. Collaborating across departments the team focuses on maintaining cuttingedge systems and infrastructure while driving forward strategic projects. From managing complex cloud platforms to delivering resilient onpremises solutions the IT team thrives on solving challenges and fostering a supportive inclusive culture.
The Experience Youll Need:
- 7 years of progressive systems administration experience in enterprise environments.
- Expertise in Windows systems Active Directory DNS DHCP and associated Windows services.
- Proficiency in automating processes using scripting languages (e.g. PowerShell Python) or automation tools.
- Strong knowledge of networking including experience with firewalls switches routers and wireless access points.
- Experience managing AV systems and supporting largescale corporate events including setup troubleshooting and ensuring seamless operations.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure.
- Familiarity with storage solutions and protocols like SMB and NFS.
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues and resolve them effectively.
- Experience managing security and compliance across IT environments.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Proven ability to lead projects and collaborate with crossfunctional teams.
How Youll Be Supported
At Recursion your onboarding will be guided by experienced IT team members to ensure a smooth transition into your role. Youll have access to tools and resources that empower your professional development including leadership coaching and weekly opportunities to showcase your work through initiatives like Friday Wins and Tech Talks. Youll also collaborate with a supportive team that values innovation and learning ensuring you can thrive and make a meaningful impact.
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At Recursion we believe that every employee should be compensated fairly. Based on the skill and level of experience required for this role the estimated current annual base range for this role is:
- Developing: $119000
- Skilled: $131000
- Expert: $145000
To learn more about our level within levels clickhere.
You will also be eligible for bonuses and equity compensation our comprehensive benefits package for United States based candidates. The range displayed on each job posting reflects target ranges for US new hire salaries and is determined by job level and market factors.
During the interview selection process you will connect with a Talent Acquisition Partner who will be your advocate and ally to ensure you receive the appropriate compensation that meets your needs for your skills experience and relevant education/training while also reviewing our very competitive total rewards package.
The Values That We Hope You Share:
- We Care: We care about our drug candidates our Recursionauts their families each other our communities the patients we aim to serve and their loved ones. We also care about our work.
- We Learn: Learning from the diverse perspectives of our fellow Recursionauts and from failure is an essential part of how we make progress.
- We Deliver: We are unapologetic that our expectations for delivery are extraordinarily high. There is urgency to our existence: we sprint at maximum engagement making time and space to recover.
- Act Boldly with Integrity: No company changes the world or reinvents an industry without being bold. It must be balanced; not by timidity but by doing the right thing even when no one is looking.
- We are One Recursion: We operate with a company first team second mentality. Our success comes from working as one interdisciplinary team.
Recursion spends time and energy connecting every aspect of work to these values. They arent static but regularly discussed and questioned because we make decisions rooted in those values in our daytoday work. You can read more about our values and how we live them every day here.
More About Recursion
Recursion is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to industrialize drug discovery. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously expands one of the worlds largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets. Recursion leverages sophisticated machinelearning algorithms to distill from its dataset a collection of trillions of searchable relationships across biology and chemistry unconstrained by human bias. By commanding massive experimental scale up to millions of wet lab experiments weekly and massive computational scale owning and operating one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world Recursion is uniting technology biology and chemistry to advance the future of medicine.
Recursion is headquartered inSalt Lake City where it is a founding member ofBioHive the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in London Toronto Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more atwww.Recursion or connect onX(formerly Twitter) andLinkedIn.
Recursion is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability veteran status or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal state local or provincial human rights legislation.
Recursion welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Recruitment & Staffing Agencies: Recursion Pharmaceuticals and its affiliate companies do not accept resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Recursion or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Recursions internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Recursion and Recursion will not owe any referral or other fees. Our team will communicate directly with candidates who are not represented by an agent or intermediary unless otherwise agreed to prior to interviewing for the job.