Senior Linux Systems Administrator, Emerging Businesses

Job Description

The Emerging Businesses team at Ancestry is responsible for Newspapers.com, Fold3, Find a Grave, ProGenealogists, Archives.com, and a few other Ancestry businesses and we are looking for a Senior Linux Systems Admin to join our team. We are a small, entrepreneurial team and we take pride in operating efficiently and building world-class customer experiences and back-end systems while having fun and helping each other develop professionally. We are avid learners who take initiative to invent, improve and optimize. We love our jobs and believe that if you are a smart, qualified, entrepreneurial self-starter then you’ll love this work environment also. You will be working on a small team of 3 System Admins with high expectations of performance, ownership and follow-through. Our team operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and you will be on call during those hours. If it breaks, our team fixes it; which gives us incentive to build systems that don’t break. We are a small IT team that operates autonomously within Ancestry and you will be responsible for supporting the projects that you implement.

Key Responsibilities / Performance Requirements:
You will be responsible for the migration and building of web systems in the Amazon Cloud Services

You must be able to edit a config file from the console with vi

Responsible for management and deployment of AWS resources as well as regular Data Center activities; which may include lifting heavy servers in and out of cabinets Qualifications

A college degree and at least 5 years additional work experience as a Linux Systems Administrator

Experience with all levels and capacities of Amazon Web Services; especially: Cloudformation, S3, RDS, EC2, AMI creation, ECS Container Service, Route 53, aws-cli and IAM roles and policies

Commanding knowledge of command line Linux; including: Kickstart files, Puppet, compiling rpms, performance tuning and lots of other fun Linux stuff

Experience with Docker, container creation, implementation and management

Excellent troubleshooting skills and the ability to think logically

Expert knowledge in at least 2 of the following scripting languages: Shell, Perl, Python or JavaScript

Experience with MySQL, Postgres and Cassandra; backups, restores and optimizations

Familiarity with with Solaris and especially ZFS

Network experience, switch configs, vlans, routing, load balancers, firewall and DNS troubleshooting

Must possess strong oral and written communication skills

Fast learner who seeks knowledge and solutions independently

Experience in building and configuring highly available and highly scalable web systems

Additional Information

We’re a cutting-edge tech company with a very human mission—to help every person discover, preserve, and share the story of what led to them. Combining the rich information in family trees and historical records with the genetic details revealed in DNA, we create unique experiences that give people a new understanding of their lives, because connecting all the pieces of our family story can give us the deepest sense of who we are.

For more information on what we do and why you would want to work at Ancestry, visit our careers page: www.workforancestry.com

Ancestry is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at Ancestry via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of Ancestry. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Ancestry.com as a result of the referral or through other means.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. (REF911N)