Your work will change lives. Including your own.
The Impact You’ll Make
As the Senior Systems Administrator (6-month contract), you will play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth operation of Recursion's core IT systems and applications. Your expertise will directly influence the success of key business initiatives. By managing critical systems, troubleshooting complex issues, and collaborating with cross-functional teams, you'll help maintain system stability, drive process improvements, and ensure the seamless integration of applications across the organization. Your contributions will not only enhance the productivity of the IT department but also strengthen Recursion’s ability to meet regulatory and business objectives efficiently.
In this role, you will:
- Systems Administration: Manage, monitor, and maintain the performance of enterprise systems (e.g., servers, databases, networked applications) to ensure high availability and optimal functionality.
- Application Support: Provide expert-level support for critical business applications, including configuration, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
- Incident Management: Respond to system-related issues, ensure swift resolution, and minimize disruption to business operations.
- Project Support: Collaborate with the IT team to support key projects.
- Documentation: Maintain clear and concise documentation of system configurations, processes, and troubleshooting steps.
- Collaboration: Work closely with IT teams, consultants, and key business stakeholders to ensure systems and applications meet business needs.
Your impact will be felt across departments, enabling the business to operate with confidence and drive innovation.
Location:
This position is based at our headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah. Remote work is also an option.
The Team:
At Recursion, the IT Operations team thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment where collaboration and cross-functional partnerships are key to our success. The team works on a wide range of impactful projects, from system migrations and cloud infrastructure optimizations to implementing scalable solutions like SharePoint for regulatory compliance. With a relentless focus on delivering innovative IT solutions that support business growth, the team is always adapting to meet new challenges head-on, ensuring the seamless operation of Recursion’s cutting-edge technology stack. Working with IT Operations means making a real difference by enabling teams across the company to achieve their goals efficiently and securely.
The Experience You’ll Need
- Enterprise System Administration: Expertise in managing, monitoring, and optimizing enterprise-level systems (e.g., servers, databases, virtualized environments).
- Application Management: Proficiency in supporting and configuring business-critical applications such as SharePoint, Office 365, and cloud-based platforms.
- Cloud Infrastructure: Strong experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure), including deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of cloud resources.
- Troubleshooting & Problem Resolution: Advanced troubleshooting skills to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues quickly and effectively.
- Security & Compliance: Knowledge of IT security best practices and experience ensuring systems meet regulatory compliance standards.
- Scripting & Automation: Familiarity with scripting languages (e.g., PowerShell, Python) to automate tasks and improve system efficiency.
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.
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What We Do
We are a clinical-stage biotechnology company decoding biology by integrating technological innovations across biology, chemistry, automation, data science and engineering to industrialize drug discovery. We are leveraging new technology to create virtuous cycles of learning around datasets to build the next-generation biopharmaceutical company. It’s complex biology, decoded. While we are united in a common mission, Decoding Biology to Radically Improve Lives, our greatest strength lies in our differences: expertise, gender, race, disciplines, experience, and perspectives. Deliberately building and cultivating this culture is critical to achieving our audacious goals. We are proudly headquartered in Salt Lake City.
Why Work With Us
We are the leading AI/ML-driven drug discovery company, running +1.5 million experiments every week as we develop a map of human biology. This approach has created one of the largest, broadest and deepest pipelines of any technology-enabled drug discovery company.
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