Senior DevOps Engineer (Application Operations & Automation) - (3-6 Month Contract)

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

Role Overview:

Recursion is looking for a Senior Application Systems Administrator who excels at the intersection of enterprise software management and modern DevOps. You will be the technical owner for a suite of mission-critical applications—specifically POSIT (Workbench, Connect, Package Manager), ServiceNow, and Workato.

This is not a traditional "infrastructure-only" role. While you will use Kubernetes and Terraform to manage environments, your success is defined by the health, integration, and user experience of our core business and scientific platforms. We need a "Full-Stack Administrator" who can manage the cloud resources, the application configuration, and the automated workflows that connect them.

The Impact You'll Make:

• POSIT SME: Serve as the primary administrator for our scientific computing stack (POSIT). Lead upgrades, manage R/Python libraries, and optimize performance for our research teams.
• Workflow Automation: Use Workato to build and maintain robust integrations between our enterprise tools. You’ll be the architect behind our automated business logic.
• ServiceNow Platform Management: Engineer custom workflows and modules, operationalize the day-to-day technical administration of ServiceNow, including configuration, scripting (Business Rules/Client Scripts), and maintaining its health as our source of truth for IT operations.
• DevOps as a Tool: Leverage GKE (Kubernetes) and Terraform to treat your applications as code. You will ensure that our application deployments are repeatable, scalable, and secure.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Act as the bridge between Data Scientists, HR, and Finance teams to ensure their specific software needs are translated into technical reality

The Team You'll Join:

You will be joining a growing IT and Information Security team at Recursion, focused on securely implementing and operating our systems, IT Infrastructure, tools, and technologies that enable Recursion to decode biology by running experiments at scale from experiment conception through successful execution. You'll collaborate with your teammates and across departments to agree on what the most important challenges and capabilities are, then figure out how to get us there.

The Experience You'll Need:

• Multi-App Expertise: 5+ years of experience in enterprise application administration. Proven experience managing POSIT, ServiceNow, or Workato is a massive plus.
• Automation Mindset: Experience with Workato (or similar iPaaS like MuleSoft/Tray.io) to automate workflows and sync data across disparate systems.
• Infrastructure Skills: Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (GKE) and Terraform. You should be comfortable deploying applications into containerized environments.
• ServiceNow Savvy: Familiarity with the ServiceNow data model, ITSM modules, and how to perform platform maintenance.
• Service Orientation: You are a problem-solver who enjoys helping people. You view the "users" of your applications as your primary customers

Our Tech Stack

• Primary Apps: POSIT (Workbench, Connect, Package Manager), ServiceNow, Workato.
• Infrastructure: GCP (Google Cloud Platform), GKE (Kubernetes).
• CI/CD & Automation: Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions.

**Please note: This position is a 3 to 6 month contract.** 

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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. 
• We are One Recursion. True cross-functional collaboration is about trust, clarity, humility, and impact. Through sharing, we can be greater than the sum of our individual capabilities.

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 (NASDAQ: RXRX) is a clinical stage TechBio company leading the space by decoding biology to radically improve lives. Enabling its mission is the Recursion OS, a platform built across diverse technologies that continuously generate 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 Toronto, Montréal, New York, London, Oxford area, 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.  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. 

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.