Principal Cloud Network Administrator

Job Description

<p><h3>Overview</h3><p>Join to apply for the <b>Principal Cloud Network Administrator</b> role at <b>OpenText</b>.</p><p><b>Opentext - The Information Company</b> 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.</p><p><b>AI-First. Future-Driven. Human-Centered.</b> At OpenText, AI is at the heart of everything we do—powering innovation, transforming work, and empowering digital knowledge workers. We\'re hiring talent that AI can\'t replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us.</p><h3>Your Impact</h3><p>This role will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and optimizing network infrastructure within on-prem OpenText datacenters and cloud environments, particularly hyperscaler platforms. You will work closely with DevOps teams, cloud architects, and infrastructure teams to create scalable, automated, and efficient networking solutions. Your expertise in Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native network management will be key to enabling rapid deployment and continuous integration of networking components.</p><p>The network devices consist of routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, tools and monitoring and network cloud technologies. The successful candidate will have extensive experience in managing, maintaining, and enhancing a highly resilient business network within on-prem datacenters and cloud environments, and understands the challenges of supporting a 24x7 global operation. The engineer will follow process and standards, the responsibility consists of working as an individual or within a team to implement and coordinate highly complex network deployments.</p><h3>What The Role Offers</h3><ul><li>Provide day-to-day support of routers, switches, firewalls and load balancers utilized by Network Operations.</li><li>Work diligently to meet project and business timelines for design and deployment of network infrastructure.</li><li>Work to provide best solutions for connectivity between data centers and clients.</li><li>Provide 24/7 support for a highly available and resilient Network infrastructure through a regular on-call rotation.</li><li>Provide expert level network design, understand all aspects and best practices for business network datacenter infrastructure and cloud network technologies.</li><li>Design, deploy, and manage network infrastructure on hyperscaler platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).</li><li>Build highly available, scalable, and secure networking solutions for on-prem datacenter networks and cloud environments, utilizing industry best practices.</li><li>Develop and maintain Terraform scripts to automate the provisioning and configuration of networking resources across multiple cloud platforms.</li><li>Work with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI, etc.) to implement pipeline integration and continuous deployment of network resources.</li><li>Plan and recommend designs that could improve the existing network environment.</li><li>Monitor network performance across on-prem network and cloud platforms, ensuring high availability and minimal downtime, while providing analysis of capacity and health.</li></ul><h3>What You Need To Succeed</h3><ul><li>Minimum 10 years’ experience working with various network devices</li><li>Minimum 10 years’ experience in general Network Engineering</li><li>Minimum 5+ years’ experience supporting software defined network technologies (VMware NSX, Juniper, Cisco etc)</li><li>Minimum 4 years of experience in network engineering with recent focus on cloud networking and hyperscaler platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).</li><li>Proficient in a variety of network technology platforms – Routers, Switches, Firewalls including vendors such as Cisco, Arista, F5, Juniper, Checkpoint</li><li>Proficiency in building, deploying, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for network automation.</li><li>Experience with cloud-native networking services such as AWS VPC, Azure Virtual Network, Google Cloud VPC, and cloud-based DNS.</li><li>Proficiency in networking concepts, including IP addressing, subnetting, VPNs, Load Balancers, DNS, and firewalls in cloud environments.</li><li>Experience working in a team environment</li><li>Excellent analytical, troubleshooting and communications skills</li><li>Expertise on design, build and support of network infrastructure.</li><li>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.</li><li>Experience designing and managing networking solutions within large-scale cloud environments.</li><li>Strong hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure automation (IAC).</li><li>Proficiency in building, deploying, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for network automation.</li></ul><p>OpenText\'s efforts to build an inclusive work environment go beyond simply complying with applicable laws. Our Employment Equity and Diversity Policy provides direction on maintaining a working environment that is inclusive of everyone, regardless of culture, national origin, race, color, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, family status, age, veteran status, disability, religion, or other basis protected by applicable laws.</p><p>If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please contact us at hr@opentext.com. Our proactive approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and personal growth, enriching OpenText\'s vibrant workplace.</p><h3>Seniority level</h3><ul><li>Mid-Senior level</li></ul><h3>Employment type</h3><ul><li>Full-time</li></ul><h3>Job function</h3><ul><li>Information Technology</li><li>Industries</li></ul><p>Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at OpenText by 2x</p><h3>Sign in to set job alerts</h3><p>We’re unlocking community knowledge in a new way. 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