Senior Systems Administrator

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The Impact You’ll 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 on-premises environments. You will take ownership of the day-to-day operations, administration, and maintenance of systems including physical and virtual servers, endpoints, cloud platforms, and network infrastructure. Your role will directly support Recursion's mission to decode biology by enabling cutting-edge research and innovation through reliable IT services. From ensuring operational excellence in systems performance to driving proactive solutions for security and compliance, you’ll 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 high-profile events, addressing issues and coordinating upgrades as needed.
• Network Administration: Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot network infrastructure, including switches, firewalls, and access points, for both on-premise and cloud environments.
• Security Posture: Monitor and enhance the security posture of critical infrastructure across cloud and on-premises systems, proactively addressing vulnerabilities.
• Process Automation: Automate repetitive processes using industry-standard 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.
• On-call Support: Provide on-call services to ensure timely responses to critical IT issues.

The Team You’ll 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 cutting-edge systems and infrastructure while driving forward strategic projects. From managing complex cloud platforms to delivering resilient on-premises solutions, the IT team thrives on solving challenges and fostering a supportive, inclusive culture.

The Experience You’ll 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 large-scale 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 cross-functional teams

Working Location & Compensation:

This position is based at our headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

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 $119,000 to $145,000 (USD). You will also be eligible for an annual bonus and equity compensation, as well as a comprehensive benefits package. 

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The Values We Hope You Share:

• We act boldly with integrity. We are unconstrained in our thinking, take calculated risks, and push boundaries, but never at the expense of ethics, science, or trust. 
• We care deeply and engage directly. Caring means holding a deep sense of responsibility and respect - showing up, speaking honestly, and taking action.
• We learn actively and adapt rapidly. Progress comes from doing. We experiment, test, and refine, embracing iteration over perfection.
• We move with urgency because patients are waiting. Speed isn’t about rushing but about moving the needle every day.
• We take ownership and accountability. Through ownership and accountability, we enable trust and autonomy—leaders take accountability for decisive action, and teams own outcomes together. 

Our values underpin the employee experience at Recursion. They are the character and personality of the company demonstrated through how we communicate, support one another, spend our time, make decisions, and celebrate collectively.

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 world’s largest proprietary biological and chemical datasets. Recursion leverages sophisticated machine-learning 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 in Salt Lake City, where it is a founding member of BioHive, the Utah life sciences industry collective. Recursion also has offices in London, Toronto, Montreal and the San Francisco Bay Area. Learn more at www.Recursion.com, or connect on X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn.

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 Recursion’s 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.