Systems Administrator

Andersen Corporation • Oak Park Heights, MN

13d • $78,824 - $122,176 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Linux System Administrator administers, maintains, supports, and continuously improves Andersen’s enterprise Linux infrastructure. The role is responsible for the availability, security, performance, and reliability of Linux-based systems supporting business applications, manufacturing systems, databases, and infrastructure services. It works closely with application, database, network, cybersecurity, and infrastructure teams to provide secure, highly available, and operationally efficient technology solutions through automation, standardization, and continuous improvement.

This is a hybrid role based out of Andersen’s Oak Park Heights, Minnesota office. The position supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers across physical, virtual, cloud, and hybrid environments; Linux workloads in Azure and hybrid cloud environments; and container platforms and technologies including OpenShift, Podman, Docker, and Kubernetes. It also contributes to platform modernization and infrastructure improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• At least three years of experience administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable Linux operating systems in an enterprise environment.
• Experience with Red Hat technologies such as RPM, Yum/DNF, SELinux, firewalld, LVM, sudo, cron, and Red Hat Satellite.
• Experience with automation and scripting technologies, including Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Ansible, Bash, Python, and Git-based automation workflows.
• Experience supporting enterprise monitoring, backup, recovery, and virtualization platforms.
• Understanding of security best practices, patching, vulnerability remediation, access management, and least-privilege principles.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, written communication, and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, and support Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers across physical, virtual, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Install, configure, patch, upgrade, monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Linux systems.
• Manage user accounts, groups, permissions, access controls, file systems, storage, and operating system services.
• Monitor system health, logs, capacity, performance, and availability, and proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Support daily operations and service levels for critical business and manufacturing systems.
• Participate in on-call support, incident response, outage recovery, major incident management, and root cause analysis.
• Implement and maintain operating system security controls, configuration hardening standards, and access management processes.
• Support vulnerability remediation, operating system patching, and compliance initiatives, working with cybersecurity teams to reduce risk and maintain compliance.
• Develop and maintain automation using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Ansible, Bash, Python, and other automation technologies.
• Design and support automated workflows for server provisioning, patching, configuration management, compliance validation, and operational support.
• Support infrastructure-as-code and configuration management practices.
• Use Red Hat Satellite and Ansible Automation Platform for operating system lifecycle management, patching, configuration compliance, and software deployment.
• Support server provisioning, upgrades, migrations, decommissioning, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery testing.
• Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, build standards, change records, and troubleshooting guides.
• Contribute to platform modernization initiatives involving cloud, container, and hybrid infrastructure technologies.
• Support containerized and cloud-native technologies, including OpenShift, Podman, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Assist with deployment and support of Linux workloads in Azure and hybrid cloud environments.
• Collaborate with application, database, infrastructure, network, and cybersecurity teams to troubleshoot complex issues and deliver projects.
• Participate in technology implementations, infrastructure upgrades, and operational improvement initiatives.
• Support ITIL incident, problem, change, and configuration management processes.

Benefits

• 401(k) plan with employer fixed contributions and company matching
• Profit sharing
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), Health Savings Account (HSA), and Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
• Life insurance
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• Paid maternity leave and paid parental leave
• Career growth planning and nationwide career opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level