Infrastructure Administrator (Contract Position)

Your work will change lives. Including your own. 

The Impact You’ll Make

As an Infrastructure Administrator, you will play a critical role in ensuring the stability, security, and efficiency of Recursion’s IT infrastructure. This mid-level operational role is 60% systems administration and 40% network administration, with responsibilities spanning enterprise systems, identity management, and network operations. You will manage both Mac and Windows environments, troubleshoot issues, and optimize IT services to support business-critical operations.

What You’ll Do

Systems Administration Duties

• Manage and maintain Mac and Windows-based enterprise environments, ensuring seamless performance and security.
• Administer endpoint management solutions such as Jamf (Mac) and Intune (Windows) for device provisioning, policy enforcement, and security compliance.
• Oversee Okta identity and access management, handling user authentication, SSO configurations, and MFA enforcement.
• Administer enterprise applications and collaboration tools, including Google Workspace and other SaaS platforms.
• Implement and monitor backup and disaster recovery solutions to ensure business continuity.
• Automate routine administrative tasks using Ansible, PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex hardware, software, and OS-level issues for end-user and enterprise systems.

Network Administration Duties

• Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot enterprise network infrastructure, including switches, firewalls, wireless access points, and VPN solutions.
• Support and enhance network security, monitoring and mitigating vulnerabilities.
• Assist with wireless network performance tuning, optimizing reliability and speed.
• Provide support for remote connectivity solutions, including Netskope and other VPN technologies.
• Participate in network infrastructure upgrades and migrations, ensuring minimal disruption.

Who You Are

• A highly skilled IT professional with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in systems and network administration in an enterprise environment.
• Proficient in managing Mac and Windows endpoints and enterprise endpoint management tools like Jamf and Intune.
• Strong understanding of Okta identity management, including SSO, MFA, and user lifecycle management.
• Comfortable with troubleshooting enterprise networks, including VLANs, firewalls, and wireless networking.
• Knowledgeable about IT security best practices, including patch management, compliance, and endpoint security.
• Able to analyze and resolve complex IT issues efficiently and effectively.
• Strong communicator who can collaborate across teams and provide excellent end-user support.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Familiarity with configuration management and automation tools for IT operations.
• Hands-on experience with firewalls (Fortinet, Palo Alto, etc.) and VPN solutions.
• Industry certifications such as CCNA, MCSA, Jamf, or Network+ are a plus.

Why Join Us?

At Recursion, you’ll work within a highly technical IT Operations team that is committed to ensuring seamless and secure infrastructure. This contract position offers the opportunity to work on critical IT projects, enhance enterprise systems, and contribute to the efficiency and reliability of IT services that support Recursion’s mission.

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.