Biotechnology is rewriting life as we know it, from the medicines we take, to the crops we grow, the materials we wear, and the household goods that we rely on every day. But moving at the new speed of science requires better technology.
Benchling’s mission is to unlock the power of biotechnology. The world’s most innovative biotech companies use Benchling’s R&D Cloud to power the development of breakthrough products and accelerate time to milestone and market.
Come help us bring modern software to modern science.
ROLE OVERVIEW
The IT Engineering team is looking for a Sr Systems Engineer to help us with the day-to-day management, operation, engineering solutions for the cloud based IT systems and services we rely on. Our ideal candidate is experienced with modern IT cloud/ SAAS tools, has a natural instinct to build, automate repetitive tasks, and enjoys deploying new tools and helping to improve current systems. You'll not only be tasked with curating an “It Just Works” environment, but to learn, grow and help others along their journey as well.
YOUR IMPACT
- Support Active Directory , Okta SSO & Device Trust implementations, build Okta workflows & improve employee onboarding and offboarding processes
- Provide administration and support for critical tools including: Google Workspace, Okta, Slack Grid, Jira, and Github
- Automate manual tasks related to provisioning, configuration management and operations in Enterprise Mac / Windows client devices & AWS Cloud
- Collaborate with the security team in implementing security & legal best practices
- Partner with operations team in troubleshooting, driving operational excellence, gather & report patch status, backup status, configuration status & health status across our IT Services
- Prioritize user experience, focus on task automation, work with developers and business groups to ensure we meet the application compatibility & performance needs of client devices in offices and remotely
- Administration, including user onboarding and offboarding processes
ABOUT YOUMust Have -
- 5+ years experience administering modern SaaS tools: Okta, Okta Device Trust, Slack Grid, Google Workspace, Github, etc.
- 5+ years experience administering client endpoints in a corporate environments with 1000+ users using Jamf & Intune.
- 3+ years of experience in systems engineering automation using Python , Go or other scripting languages.
- You have a devops mindset and approach tasks analytically, engineer elegant and simple to use solutions.
- You are a strong communicator. Explaining complex technical concepts to executives, support, and other engineers is no problem for you.
- You are motivated by helping others succeed. When things break - and they will - you are eager and able to help fix things. You like thinking of ways to improve efficiency or bring delight to the people you work with.
- You have curiosity about how things work.
Nice to Have -
- Okta workflows, Okta Identity Engine, Automox
- Experience deploying and managing configurations of IaaS (Windows / Linux Servers), PaaS & Workspaces components in AWS using tools such as Terraform, Cloudformation, Chef, Puppet, Ansible.
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We are an equal opportunity employer. That means we don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Our leadership principles guide how all Benchlings can lead by example:
- Admit mistakes and shortcomings
- Deliver results
- Disagree and commit
- Obsess over customers
- Rely on work ethic
- Show empathy
- Recruit and develop the best
- Sweat the details
- Think and communicate clearly
- Unite around the mission
For applicants for U.S.-based roles only: All new hires in the United States are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and to provide proof of vaccination prior to their first day of employment. If you are unable to be vaccinated for medical or religious reasons, we will explore potential reasonable accommodations; however, Benchling may not be able to grant such accommodations in all cases if doing so would cause undue hardship.
If you are a Colorado resident: Please contact us by emailing [email protected] to receive compensation and benefits information for this role. Please include the job title in the subject line of the email.
