BioLife Solutions is repeatedly named one of
Washington’s 100 Best Companies to Work For, a list curated by Seattle Business Magazine. We welcome you to apply to join our dynamic, high-energy team. Here you will find a performance-based, family-oriented environment where authentic communication and treating colleagues with respect are required. Our employees receive a competitive benefits package, which includes generous company stock awards and a 401k matching program.
BioLife Solutions is a leading developer, manufacturer and supplier of class-defining cell and gene therapy bioproduction tools and services. Our solutions facilitate basic and applied research and commercialization of new therapies by maintaining the health of biologic source material and finished products during manufacturing, storage, and distribution. Our solutions offer commercial companies and clinical researchers significant improvement in shelf life and post-preservation viability and function of biologic materials. Our tools portfolio includes our proprietary, serum-free and protein-free, fully defined CryoStor® freeze media and HypoThermosol® shipping and storage media, ThawSTAR® family of automated, water-free thawing products, evo® cold chain management system, and Custom Biogenic Systems high-capacity storage freezers. Services include SciSafe biologic and pharmaceutical materials storage. For more information, please visit: www.biolifesolutions.com.
General Summary And Purpose
The Sr Network Systems Administrator is a core member of the Information Technology Team at BioLife. This position will maintain all essential IT infrastructure, including Networks, Security Tools, Servers, Applications/SaaS, MDM, Disaster Recovery and backups.
The position will collaborate within IT and across the organization to ensure stakeholder needs are met in a compliant and efficient manner.
Duties And Responsibilities
- Maintain on premise company infrastructure including, routers, switches, firewalls, laptop and desktop computers, servers, server virtualization, NAS, printers, security updates; support internet, LANs, WANs, VPNs and VLAN network segments.
- Maintain minimal cloud environment (primarily Microsoft Entra ID, AWS)Help eliminate manual process through tools such as InTune and Okta.
- Ensure IT systems provided are efficient for the business and consist of cutting-edge technology through implementation of the different platform environments while supporting:
- Compliance, Cybersecurity policies, SOPs
- Increased reliability of systems
- Comprehensive documentation of environments and support
- Cost efficiency
- Lead project planning and deployment for IT and cloud infrastructure projects in support of annual operating plan.
- Will work with internal and external partners to communicate project status, activities and achievements.
- Document network issues and events.
- Plan and implement upgrades, patches, new applications and equipment installation.
- Maintain SOX compliance for the IT programs by providing input into policy and procedural documentation as well as performing required testing (e.g. backups and restores)
- Assist with all auditing requirements including SOX, NIST and other customer requests.
- Maintains and follows disaster recovery, security, backup and restore plans.
- Assist the help desk and other teams with troubleshooting to identify root cause and provide technical support when needed.
- Provides subject matter expertise, advice, and guidance to deliver and support IT systems through efficient management of the company infrastructure and the delivery of projects.
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive
listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this
job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Reporting Relationships
This position reports to Director, Information Technology.
Job Requirements
- Demonstrated detailed knowledge of Windows server setup is required (Windows Server/Active Directory/Microsoft Entra Hybrid environment)
- Demonstrated experience with o365 administration, Intune is required
- Okta experience is preferred.
- Experience working in a public company environment and adhering to SOX and other regulatory requirements and audits is required.
- Must have hands on experience in network architecture, routing and switching, WIFI, firewalls and VPNs (Meraki infrastructure)
- Must have hands on experience with server virtualization (VMware)
- Excellent knowledge of best practices around security, management, control, and monitoring of server/network infrastructure
- Familiarity with backup and recovery software and methodologies such as Veeam
- Great at organizing, prioritizing and multitasking
- Demonstrated experience working in collaborative team environment
Job Specifications
- BA degree in related field or equivalent work experience.
- Must have a minimum of 7+ years’ experience in a network/systems administrator role.
BioLife Solutions is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
BioLife Solutions provides a substance-free workplace, and all offers of employment will be contingent on opiate drug test and background check.
The US base salary range for this position at full-time is $107,609 - $172,175 per year. Our salary ranges are determined by position, level, location, and market competitive benchmarks. Individual pay within a level is determined by work location (including geographic pay zone region), job related skills, experience, education, and training.
The BioLife Solutions total rewards program includes, but is not limited to medical, dental, vision, 401K with generous match, life and disability insurance as well as time off programs of Vacation and Sick time. Additionally, we believe in our team members sharing the success of our business and therefore we may provide cash bonus or stock equity grants based on company performance as a part of our total rewards package.