Systems Administrator

Andersen Windows, Inc.; Oak Park Heights, Northern (MN, KY); Hybrid; USD 79,000 - 122,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) Plan

Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage

FSAs/HSA/HRA

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off & Holidays

Maternity/Parental Leave

Career Growth Opportunities

Job summary

Andersen Corporation in Minnesota is seeking a Linux System Administrator to own the enterprise Linux infrastructure, ensuring availability, security, and reliability for critical business apps and manufacturing systems. This role collaborates across IT teams and emphasizes automation and continuous improvement.

The hybrid position is based in Oak Park Heights, MN, offering on-call support and a focus on scale, security, and modernization of the platform.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum three (3) 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, Red Hat Satellite).
• Experience with automation and scripting technologies including Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), 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.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, written communication, and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, support Red Hat Enterprise Linux across physical, virtual, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Install, configure, patch, upgrade, monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize performance.
• Manage users, groups, permissions, access controls, file systems, storage, and OS services.
• Monitor health, logs, capacity, performance, and availability to proactively resolve issues.
• Support day-to-day operations 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.

Skills

Linux system administration

Automation and scripting

Security best practices

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering

Tools

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Ansible

Git

Red Hat Satellite

OpenShift

Podman

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

ANDERSEN CORPORATION SUMMARY

At Andersen, we see possibility everywhere, every day and in everything we do. The possibility for our employees to achieve their full potential, for our communities to be stronger and for everyone to have a healthier, happier place to live. Our portfolio of brands — Andersen Windows & Doors, Renewal by Andersen and Fenetres MQ — is crafted to serve customers across the new residential, home improvement and light commercial building sector. Join our more than 13,000 employees who are inspired every day to deliver exceptional experiences that turn possibility into reality.

JOB DESCRIPTION: SUMMARY

The Linux System Administrator is responsible for the administration, maintenance, support, and continuous improvement of Andersen's enterprise Linux infrastructure. This position ensures the availability, security, performance, and reliability of Linux-based systems supporting critical business applications, manufacturing systems, databases, and infrastructure services. The role partners closely with application, database, network, cybersecurity, and infrastructure teams to deliver secure, highly available, and operationally efficient technology solutions through automation, standardization, and continuous improvement. This is a hybrid role based out of our Oak Park Heights, MN office location.

Primary Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Operations & Support Administer, maintain, and support Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 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.

Security & Compliance

• Implement and maintain operating system security controls, configuration hardening standards, and access management processes.
• Support vulnerability remediation, operating system patching, and compliance initiatives in accordance with enterprise standards.
• Partner with cybersecurity teams to reduce risk and maintain compliance across Linux platforms.

Automation & Platform Engineering

• Develop and maintain automation solutions utilizing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), 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 Red Hat Satellite and Ansible Automation Platform to support operating system lifecycle management, patching, configuration compliance, and software deployment.

Platform Lifecycle Management

• Support server provisioning, upgrades, migrations, decommissioning, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery testing activities.
• Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, build standards, change records, and troubleshooting guides.
• Contribute to platform modernization initiatives involving cloud, container, and hybrid infrastructure technologies.

Container & Cloud Technologies

• Support containerized and cloud-native technologies including OpenShift, Podman, Docker, and Kubernetes platforms.
• Assist with the deployment and support of Linux workloads running in Azure and hybrid cloud environments.

Collaboration & Project Delivery

• Collaborate with application, database, infrastructure, network, and cybersecurity teams to troubleshoot complex issues and support project delivery.
• Participate in technology implementations, infrastructure upgrades, and operational improvement initiatives.
• Support ITIL processes including incident, problem, change, and configuration management.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent experience.
• Minimum three (3) years of experience administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable Linux operating systems in an enterprise environment.
• Experience with Red Hat technologies (e.g. RPM, Yum/DNF, SELinux, firewalld, LVM, sudo, cron, Red Hat Satellite).
• Experience with automation and scripting technologies including Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), 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.

PAY RANGE

$78,824.00 - $122,176.00

CULTURE AND BENEFITS

• 401 (k) Plan, Employer Fixed Contributions & 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 & Paid Holidays
• Paid Maternity Leave & Paid Parental Leave*
• Career Growth Planning & Nationwide Career Opportunities
• For employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement, some benefits may differ or may not be available based on the terms of the agreement.

PROFIT SHARING

In 2026 Andersen has set a profit-sharing target of $3,600 per eligible employee, prorated as appropriate. Profit Sharing will be paid out in quarterly installments to provide eligible employees with payments throughout the year, with payment amounts tied to quarterly operating profit performance.

EEOC EMPLOYER

Andersen is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, disability, marital status, national origin, citizenship, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Andersen Corporation will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of all applicable federal, state and local laws. If you need a reasonable accommodation to complete a job application, participate in a job interview, or engage in any part of the hiring process, please contact [e-mail].

We look forward to seeing how your unique skills, background and experiences will inspire our team and help us continue to be the leader we are today. There’s something meaningfully different about Anderson that makes us America’s most loved brand of windows and doors. We are real, optimistic, and intentional in the way we partner with each other and our customers. Everyone is welcome here, and everyone contributes to our success.