Senior IT Systems Engineer

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Employee About 10x Genomics At 10x Genomics, accelerating our understanding of biology is more than a mission for us. It is a commitment. This is the century of biology, and the breakthroughs we make now have the potential to change the world.

We enable scientists to advance their research, allowing them to address scientific questions they did not even know they could ask. Our tools have enabled fundamental discoveries across biology including cancer, immunology, and neuroscience.

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The Role Information technology is a vital and integral part of our success. At 10x Genomics, IT not only provides a secure, stable, and scalable infrastructure for R&D, manufacturing, and business operations, it serves as a catalyst for innovation and productivity. We are looking for an exceptional Senior Systems Engineer with strong knowledge of Windows and virtualization platforms and extensive experience in building and maintaining mission-critical IT infrastructure to join our IT team.

If you are a self-starter who is passionate about building and operating scalable and reliable IT infrastructure and is excited to work in a highly collaborative environment alongside a diverse team of experts every day, join us at 10x Genomics.

What you will be doing

Design, build, maintain and monitor our mission-critical Windows enterprise infrastructure systems and services across global footprint.

Manage our Global Active Directory & Microsoft Entra  (formerly Azure AD) environment.

Maintain a secure and stable IT environment;
Deploying patch management software, policy enforcement, systems hardening and systems / software upgrades.

Manage enterprise backup and disaster recovery solutions.

Create and maintain detailed documentation of system design, implementation and configuration.

Participate in a shared operational on-call rotation to support our production environment.

Lead post-incident reviews to identify root causes and implement long-term preventative fixes.

Minimum Qualifications 5 years IT experience with managing Windows Infrastructure and core services such as Active Directory, Microsoft Entra , Endpoint management, DNS and DHCP in a production environment.

Extensive experience with virtualization technologies and hypervisors, such as VMware ESXi/vCenter and Proxmox VE.

Experience with system architecture and building production environments on AWS.

Experience with enterprise backup, disaster recovery, alerting and monitoring solutions.

Strong understanding of encryption, data security and patch management best practices.

Experience scripting in Powershell, Bash or Python.

Experience with IaC and configuration management tools (Ansible, Terraform) to automate system provisioning.

Preferred Skills & Experience Working knowledge of Linux such as regular day-to-day sysadmin responsibilities (build systems, management, permissions, network mounts).Familiar with Identity Access & Management tools (Okta, SAML
2.0 / OIDC protocols).Familiar with Microsoft Intune for unified endpoint management and policy enforcement.

Strong analytical and organizational skills.

Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Below is the base pay range for this full-time position.  The actual base pay will depend on several factors unique to each candidate, including one’s skills, qualifications, and experience.  At 10x, base pay is also just one component of the Company’s total compensation package.  This role is also eligible for 10x’s equity grants, its comprehensive health and retirement benefit programs, and its annual bonus program or sales incentive program.
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