OPENTEXT
OpenText is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are the key components of our corporate culture. As a member of our team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the most highly regarded companies in the world, tackle complex issues, and contribute to projects that shape the future of digital transformation.
Your impact
This role involves designing, implementing, and optimizing network infrastructure in OpenText data centers and cloud environments, especially hyperscaler platforms. You'll collaborate with DevOps teams, cloud architects, and infrastructure teams to create scalable, automated networking solutions. Expertise in Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native network management is essential for rapid deployment and continuous integration.
The network includes routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, tools, and monitoring technologies. The ideal candidate has extensive experience managing and enhancing resilient business networks in on-prem data centers and cloud environments.
What the role offers
- Provide expert level network design, understand all aspects and best practices for business network datacenter infrastructure and cloud network technologies
- Provide day-to-day support of routers, switches, firewalls and load balancers utilized by Network Operations
- Design, deploy, and manage network infrastructure on hyperscaler platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Build highly available, scalable, and secure networking solutions for on-prem datacenter networks and cloud environments, utilizing industry best practices
- Develop and maintain Terraform scripts to automate the provisioning and configuration of networking resources across multiple cloud platforms
- Work with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI, etc.) to implement pipeline integration and continuous deployment of network resources
- Plan and recommend designs that could improve the existing network environment
- Monitor network performance across on-prem network and cloud platforms, ensuring high availability and minimal downtime meanwhile providing analysis of capacity and health
- Troubleshoot complex network issues across hybrid environments (on-premises and cloud)
- Create clear, detailed documentation for network designs, deployments, and configurations
- Establish and enforce networking best practices, standards, and guidelines for the team and broader organization
- Work closely with cross-functional teams, including across network teams, cloud architects, security teams, cloud operations and software developers, to ensure that network solutions align with the overall business goals and objectives
- Stay current with the latest developments in cloud networking and automation technologies to suggest and implement improvements to existing systems
What you need to succeed
- Experience designing and managing networking solutions within large-scale on-prem network and cloud environments
- An education in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent experience, is required
- Minimum 10 years’ experience in general Network Engineering
- Relevant experience supporting software-defined network technologies (VMWare NSX, Juniper, Cisco etc)
- Relevant experience in network engineering with a recent focus on cloud networking and hyperscaler platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Proficient in a variety of network technology platforms – Routers, Switches, Firewalls including vendors such as Cisco, Arista, F5, Juniper, Checkpoint
- Proficiency in building, deploying, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for network automation
- Experience with containerized networking, Kubernetes, and Docker networking in cloud environments
- Experience with cloud-native networking services such as AWS VPC, Azure Virtual Network, Google Cloud VPC, and cloud-based DNS
- Proficiency in networking concepts, including IP addressing, subnetting, VPNs, Load Balancers, DNS, and firewalls in cloud environments
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting and communications skills
- Expertise on design, build and support of network infrastructure
- Network Skills: TCP/IP, routing protocols (EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, IPSec VPN), Layer2/3 switching and VLAN configuration, Firewall security policies, spine and leaf architecture
- Strong hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure automation (IAC)
- Proficiency in building, deploying, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for network automation
