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.

Location:

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

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.

How You’ll Be Supported

At Recursion, your onboarding will be guided by experienced IT team members to ensure a smooth transition into your role. You’ll 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. You’ll 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: $119,000
• Skilled: $131,000
• Expert: $145,000 

To learn more about our level within levels, click here.

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 aren’t static, but regularly discussed and questioned because we make decisions rooted in those values in our day-to-day 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 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.