Systems Administrator

• We are looking for a hands-on Systems Administrator to keep our IT infrastructure running smoothly for every team that depends on it: from drug discovery through development and the business behind it
• You’ll work across cloud systems, on-prem infrastructure, and the platform and tools that support in-house applications
• This is a generalist role for someone who is curious, technically broad, and energized by variety; one day you’re improving service availability, the next you’re troubleshooting scientific system performance, the next you’re automating away a process that’s been costing the team hours each week
• Operating, maintaining, and supporting our hybrid systems and infrastructure; we operate a mixed environment including cloud (AWS) and on-prem
• Supporting engineering systems, platforms, and tools that our internal developers and scientists use to build and run in-house applications
• Troubleshooting issues across systems, networking, identity, and access; exercising judgment on unusual problems and adapting existing approaches when there isn’t a clear precedent
• Partnering with engineering and scientific teams to support integrations between corporate IT, lab instruments, and in-house platforms
• Digging deeply into your managed systems; automating routine operational work and improving availability and efficiency
• Owning patching, monitoring, and documentation practices across your managed systems

Benefits

• Health Benefits - Stay well with a comprehensive health benefits package that includes health, dental, life and critical illness coverage
• Stock Options - Work together, win together with an ownership stake in AbCellera.
• Active Lifestyle Allowance - Use the active lifestyle allowance for the fitness activities that keep you active and healthy
• Paid Vacation - You work hard and should take well-deserved time off, starting with a minimum of 3 weeks’ vacation
• Flexible Work Hours - Optimize how you work with flexible work hours.
• Personal & Professional Development - Ignite your curiosity, learn and be inspired through workshops, conferences and programs
• Work-Life Balance - Take the time you need to support yourself and your family.
• Immigration & Relocation Assistance - Get you (and your family) settled into a new city with the help of our team, including personalized immigration support

• We’re looking for someone who’s already done this kind of work - running real infrastructure in a production environment - and who’s hungry to keep learning as the environment modernizes around them
• You bring strong judgment to unusual problems; you know when to adapt an existing approach, when to escalate, and when to push back on a bad one
• You’re a hands-on technical generalist who’s run cloud and on-prem environments in production, and you’ve developed instincts for what tends to break and why
• You have 5+ years of related experience operating production infrastructure, in addition to a Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience in a technical field); candidates with 3+ years of related experience in addition to a Master’s degree will also be considered
• You communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical individuals, and bring solid documentation habits
• You work with modern practices by default; infrastructure-as-code, automation, and observability are tools you reach for, not afterthoughts
• You’re deeply curious about how systems work end-to-end, tools you haven’t used yet, and the science your work supports
• You have experience in scientific or manufacturing environments, or working in regulated industries (GxP, SOC2, etc.); this is considered a bonus!