Hybrid Linux Systems Administrator Automation & Security

andersen; Oak Park Heights (MN); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Andersen Corporation in Oak Park Heights, MN is seeking a Linux System Administrator to maintain and improve our enterprise Linux infrastructure, ensuring security, high availability, and performance for critical business systems.

The role collaborates with application, database, network, cybersecurity, and infrastructure teams, leveraging automation with Ansible, Bash and Python to deliver reliable, scalable solutions in a hybrid cloud environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
• Minimum three years of experience administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux in an enterprise environment.
• Experience with Red Hat technologies (RPM, Yum/DNF, SELinux, firewalld, LVM, sudo, cron).
• Experience with automation and scripting including Ansible, Bash, Python, and Git-based workflows.
• Experience supporting enterprise monitoring, backup, recovery, and virtualization platforms.
• Understanding of security best practices, patching, vulnerability remediation, access management, and least-privilege principles.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, and support Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers across physical, virtual, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Perform system installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
• Manage user accounts, groups, permissions, access controls, file systems, storage, and operating system services.
• Monitor system health, logs, capacity, performance, and availability to proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Support day-to-day operational activities and maintain service levels for critical business and manufacturing systems.
• Participate in on-call support, incident response, outage recovery, major incident management, and root cause analysis activities.
• Develop and maintain automation solutions utilizing Ansible, Bash, Python, and other automation technologies.
• Design and support automated workflows for server provisioning, patching, configuration management, compliance validation, and operational support activities.
• Support infrastructure-as-code and configuration management practices to improve operational consistency and efficiency.
• Utilize RedHat Satellite and Ansible Automation Platform to support OS lifecycle management, patching, configuration compliance, and software deployment.
• Support server provisioning, upgrades, migrations, decommissioning, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery testing activities.

Skills

Collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Red Hat

Red Hat Satellite

Ansible

Bash

Python

Git

OpenShift

Podman

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure

Job description

Andersen Corporation in Oak Park Heights, MN is seeking a Linux System Administrator to maintain and improve our enterprise Linux infrastructure, ensuring security, high availability, and performance for critical business systems.

The role collaborates with application, database, network, cybersecurity, and infrastructure teams, leveraging automation with Ansible, Bash and Python to deliver reliable, scalable solutions in a hybrid cloud environment.