Senior DevOps Engineer (3-6 Month Contract)

Recursion; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A clinical stage TechBio company is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to manage infrastructure and applications using Infrastructure as Code and Kubernetes. The successful candidate will design and implement scalable solutions, emphasizing automation and security. With responsibilities spanning from deployment to troubleshooting, this role is vital for supporting the company's rapid growth in the TechBio sector. Ideal candidates should have a strong background in cloud technologies, specifically GKE, and experience with tools like Terraform and Ansible.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering role.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform and Ansible for Infrastructure as Code.
• In-depth knowledge and practical experience with Kubernetes, specifically GKE.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, implementation, and management of infrastructure using IaC.
• Deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes.
• Implement and manage robust monitoring and alerting for infrastructure.

Skills

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Troubleshooting

Problem-solving

Scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

POSIT Workbench

Integration tools

Job description

Remote Opportunity - Canada; Remote Opportunity - United States; Salt Lake City, Utah; Toronto, Ontario

Your work will change lives. Including your own.

Please note: Our offices will be closed for our annual winter break from December 22, 2025, to January 2, 2026. Our response to your application will be delayed.

Role Overview:

Recursion is seeking a highly skilled and motivated DevOps Engineer with a strong background in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Kubernetes, specifically Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). This role is critical to our IT team and will be instrumental in deploying and managing our cutting‑edge application, POSIT, in a containerized environment. You will be responsible for the full lifecycle management of key infrastructure components that underpin our business operations and scientific endeavors. This position requires a proactive individual who can take ownership from initial design and proof‑of‑concept through to deployment, ongoing optimization, and maintenance. You will ensure our systems are robust, scalable, and secure, effectively supporting Recursion's rapid growth and unique operational needs in the TechBio space.

The Impact You’ll Make:

• Lead the design, implementation, and management of infrastructure using IaC to ensure consistent and repeatable environments.
• Deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications using Kubernetes, with a specific focus on GKE.
• Engineer and automate operational tasks related to infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment.
• Implement and manage robust monitoring and alerting for infrastructure and applications to ensure high availability and performance.
• Perform deep‑dive troubleshooting and root cause analysis for complex infrastructure and application issues, engineering permanent solutions.
• Collaborate with development and application teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment of applications like POSIT.
• Design, implement, and manage integrations between various enterprise applications and infrastructure components to ensure seamless data flow and process efficiency.
• Implement and manage security configurations, ensuring adherence to company policies and industry best practices, including principles such as least privilege.
• Partner with security teams on audits and potentially support compliance requirements (e.g., GxP considerations). Experience with 21 CFR Part 11 and CSV validation is a plus.
• Explore and leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) capabilities to enhance automation, enable predictive insights (e.g., monitoring, capacity planning), optimize workflows, and improve overall infrastructure management efficiency.
• Collaborate effectively with other IT infrastructure, application, and security teams.

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 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:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience in a DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering role.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Terraform and Ansible for Infrastructure as Code.
• In‑depth knowledge and practical experience with Kubernetes, specifically GKE, for deploying and managing containerized applications.
• Experience with deploying and managing applications in containerized environments.
• Experience with the installation, upgrade, and maintenance of POSIT Workbench, Connect, and Packages (or similar R‑based analytical platforms).
• Proficiency in managing R packages and environments.
• Experience with user access management and implementing role‑based access control (RBAC).< li>Familiarity with 21 CFR Part 11 regulations.
• Experience with Computer System Validation (CSV) processes for regulatory compliance.
• Experience with other enterprise applications and integration tools.
• Strong understanding of application integration, APIs, and integration tools.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem‑solving skills with an engineering mindset.
• Experience with scripting and automation tools.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

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.

Equal Opportunity Employment Information (Recursion)

We are committed to a high‑performing workplace where everyone feels like they belong and can do the best work of their careers. We reward merit and contribution as we strive for a workplace that reflects the communities in which we operate and the patients we intend to serve. To this end, we invite you to self‑identify your race/ethnicity and gender. This information will be kept confidential and will not be used to favor or discriminate against any candidate. It will not be shared with the hiring managers or otherwise considered as part of your application. Submission of this information is voluntary and refusal to provide any or all of the information requested will not subject you to any adverse treatment.