Senior Linux Systems Admin — 24/7 Enterprise Ops

Ancestry; Scottsdale (AZ); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Ancestry is seeking a seasoned System Administrator for iMemories, operating within an 800‑system enterprise with over 2PB storage. The role emphasizes uptime, cross-team collaboration, and hands-on maintenance of servers and workstations.

You will troubleshoot issues, support a 24/7 operation, and contribute to capacity planning, architecture discussions, and deployments across on-prem and cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of Linux System Administration experience.
• Advanced experience with network configuration and management (Brocade knowledge a plus).
• Intermediate Windows desktop administration (Windows Vista/7).
• Intermediate Active Directory experience.
• Intermediate Mac OSX desktop support.
• Intermediate to advanced AWS experience (EC2, Route 53, S3, Glacier a plus).
• Lustre and/or Gluster storage experience a plus.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Manage application software and workstations used by the operations organization.
• Ensure uptime of the operations team; minimize interruptions.
• Participate in hardware and system capacity planning and expansion.
• Contribute to technical architecture and design discussions as a system and network expert.
• Help maintain all systems.
• Monitor and troubleshoot workflow issues.
• Provide 24/7 support in an on-call rotation.
• Plan and prioritize upgrades, deployments, configurations and outages.
• Configure and deploy servers and workstations as needed.
• Perform hardware installs and cabling upgrades and replacements.
• Setup, configure, and monitor OS installs.
• Provide application and basic desktop support.
• Maintain and update tracking, monitoring, and management data/tools.

Skills

Linux systems

Network configuration

Windows admin

Active Directory

AWS / cloud

Mac OSX support

LDAP

Postgres

Brocade knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

EC2

Route 53

S3

Glacier

Lustre

Gluster

PostgreSQL

AD/LDAP tools

Job description

Ancestry is seeking a seasoned System Administrator for iMemories, operating within an 800‑system enterprise with over 2PB storage. The role emphasizes uptime, cross-team collaboration, and hands-on maintenance of servers and workstations.

You will troubleshoot issues, support a 24/7 operation, and contribute to capacity planning, architecture discussions, and deployments across on-prem and cloud environments.