IT Systems Administrator

At Recursion, we combine experimental biology, chemistry, automation and artificial intelligence to quickly and efficiently identify treatments for diseases. We generate a wide variety of data across different biological and chemical domains, and build models off of that data. Reporting to the Director of IT Infrastructure Operations, Enterprise Applications, and Security Operations, the IT Systems Administrator will help build, maintain, and support a first-class network and system infrastructure to accelerate Recursion’s mission and goals.

The Impact You’ll Make

• Manage and maintain systems and applications, monitoring status and performance, and handling installation, maintenance, upgrades, and general support.
• Drive performance improvements. Ensure uptime meets or exceeds defined SLAs. Empathize with customers/stakeholders and advocate for the customer point-of-view. Identify priorities and present solutions, keeping the customer in mind. 
• Create and maintain thorough documentation including configuration, processes, procedures, troubleshooting guides, and runbooks.
• Ensure the alignment of all activities to existing policies, processes, and procedures. Assist with user and group access to applications.
• Learn and adapt quickly to new situations, changing priorities, and disruptive technologies.  Create opportunities to develop continuous improvement efforts. Maintain currency with latest industry knowledge and take initiative to experiment with new ideas and technologies.
• Continually develop new skills, knowledge, and abilities to maintain currency on developments with supported applications and architecture. Consistently align department activities with industry best practices.
• Analyze problems by performing root cause analysis exercises. Identify and recommend solutions for problem resolution and prevention. Engage vendor support to leverage product expertise. Critically evaluate the benefits of implementing a temporary workaround versus a permanent solution.
• Partner with IT Engineering team(s) in implementing new systems and act as an escalation point (L2 support) for IT Service Desk 
• Assist with general Network Administration activities as required and act as a physical point of contact onsite supporting other team members.
• Perform other related duties as assigned or requested.

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 applications, systems, IT infrastructure, tools, and technologies that enables 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

• Proven ability to communicate credibly and confidently when interacting with customers, coworkers, and stakeholders. Present status and proposed solutions in a logical manner with a focus on benefits and based on relevant data. Convey technical concepts to non-technical audiences (e.g. senior management, peers, internal customers)
• 3+ years of hands-on operations experience with Enterprise Technologies, particularly endpoint operating systems, Windows server, Linux server.
• Familiar with networking technologies and concepts.
• 5+ years of Enterprise IT experience in mid-size or larger organization preferably in the Pharma/BioTech space
• Experience with Windows, MacOS, Active Directory, Linux, Azure/O365, DNS, DHCP, and GCP.
• Proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages
• Excellent project management skills

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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: $74,000 
• Skilled: $82,000
• Expert: $90,000