Profluent is the frontier AI lab for biology. Profluent builds powerful foundation models for all of life's molecules, unlocking solutions that transform medicine, agriculture, and beyond. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in Emeryville, CA, Profluent is backed by leading investors including Altimeter Capital, Bezos Expeditions, Spark Capital, Insight Partners, Air Street Capital, AIX Ventures, and Convergent Ventures and has raised over $150M to date.
The Role
The Senior IT Operations Engineer is responsible for the design, deployment, and day-to-day management of the company's entire IT infrastructure. This role owns everything from workstation provisioning and identity/access management to network architecture, cloud environments, backups, and end-user support. The ideal candidate is a hands-on generalist who can move fluidly between strategic infrastructure planning and hands-on troubleshooting, ensuring a secure, reliable, and well-documented technology environment across the organization. This position is reporting to the Director of Security, Compliance & IT.
Key Responsibilities
- Google Workspace & Productivity Applications
- Rippling Platform Administration
- Endpoint Security
- Network Infrastructure (Meraki)
- Physical Access control, Remote Access & Identity Security
- Collaboration & Cloud Platforms
- Storage & Backup
- Workstation & Device Lifecycle Management
- Conferencing & Collaboration Equipment
- Software & License Management
Qualifications
- Bachelor Degree in Information Technology
- 8+ years in a similar IT Operations role; at least 2-3 years in a high-growth startup or solo environment.
- Proven track record and experience in transitioning off an external MSP or managing a solo IT environment at a high-growth startup.
- Profound knowledge of Google Workspace and Google office applications.
- Experience in supporting SOC 2 Type 2 efforts, collecting and providing evidence and log records, review and reporting cadence.
- Hands-on experience with Rippling (or comparable HRIS/IT platform) for onboarding, rules, deployment scripting, and MDM.
- Experience with endpoint protection platforms such as SentinelOne.
- Strong knowledge of Meraki networking (wireless, VLAN, firewall/security).
