Senior Systems Administrator (SysAdmin)

At Insmed, every moment and every patient counts — and so does every person who joins in. As a global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming the lives of patients with serious and rare diseases, you’ll be part of a community that prioritizes the human experience, celebrates curiosity, and values every person’s contributions to meaningful progress. That commitment has earned us recognition as Science magazine’s No. 1 Top Employer for five consecutive years, certification as a Great Place to Work® in the U.S., and a place on The Sunday Times Best Places to Work list in the UK. For patients, for each other, and for the future of science, we’re in. Are you? About the Role: Insmed Cambridge are searching for our first Senior Systems Administrator (SysAdmin). You will be the local expert working with our experienced IT global team and IT support to help ensure that our scientific teams have dependable, high-performing systems to accelerate drug discovery. You will ensure a seamless, secure, reliable and efficient operation of research platforms, lab systems, data workflows, and our hybrid cloud environment. If you are collaborative, hands-on, proactive and passionate about contributing to supporting scientists and computational teams deliver powerful new ways of treating a broad range of serious and rare diseases – apply now! What You'll Do: 1. Infrastructure & Networking Administration Manage our local on-prem and cloud-based servers, VMs, and storage systems. Administer, deploy, configure and maintain a resilient on-prem and cloud network in collaboration with global cloud and networking teams as part of the global technology services organization. Manage and administer on-prem & cloud hosted firewalls, ports, routers, hubs, switches, VLANs, VPCs, transit gateways & certificates. Monitor and maintain system performance, reliability, availability, backups, and disaster recovery workflows. 2. Scientific Systems Support Provide operational support for scientific informatics platforms, including cheminformatics and data platforms (e.g., KNIME, Spotfire, LiveDesign, Pipeline tools), computational chemistry and bioinformatics compute environments and licensed software. Manage software installation, configuration, upgrades, and lifecycle. Ensure compatibility between platform updates, infrastructure changes, and security requirements. Support IT platform to drive tools for integrations of lab equipment, informatics systems, and data pipelines. 3. Collaboration with DevSecOps, DataOps, and Engineering Support DevSecOps engineers with Infrastructure As Code (IaC) templates / scripts for automated provisioning of infrastructure, network, scientific platforms & environment, identity & access management, secrets management, and runner/VM setup. Assist with containerized environments (Docker), deployed within single-cloud or multi-cloud kubernetes clusters and cloud resources. Coordinate deployment schedules and change controls for scientific applications. Work with engineering teams to streamline continuous integration, development and assist with CI/CD pipeline management and orchestration. 4. Collaboration with Global IT Security & Compliance Liaise with global cybersecurity and networking teams to ensure local systems adhere to policies, standards and best practices. Support vulnerability management, patching, logging, and alerting. Manage certificates, endpoint controls, and secure data transfer channels. Maintain documentation, SOPs, and audit-ready records for regulated or compliant systems. 5. User Support & Stakeholder Engagement Provide hands-on first and second-line support for scientific users. Troubleshoot problems involving servers, software, networking, authentication, or scientific tools. Work closely with chemistry, biology, computational sciences, and lab operations to understand their IT needs. Communicate clearly with non-technical users and translate requirements into technical spe ... (truncated, view full listing at source)