Sr. Systems Administrator
Cork, C, IE
OPENTEXT - THE INFORMATION COMPANY
As the Information Company, our mission at OpenText is to create software solutions and deliver services that redefine the future of digital. Be part of a winning team that leads the way in Enterprise Information Management.
The opportunity
The Systems Administrator will be part of a global team responsible for deploying, configuring, and managing an enterprise virtualization infrastructure.
- Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot VMware vSphere Suite 6,7 infrastructure.
- Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot Cisco UCS infrastructure and other hardware systems
- Upgrade existing VMware environments to the latest versions
- Install patches as required by vendors and Security directives
- Design and implement vSphere 6,7 ESX Clusters, HA, DRS, vSwitches, Distributed Switches and NSX
- Participate in troubleshooting, capacity planning and analysis, performance analysis and incident resolution triage
- Participate in the infrastructure automation initiatives.
- Participate in On-call rotation.
Knowledge and Skill:
- Ability to scope and specify technical solutions
- Strong understanding of industry best practices and standards.
- Experience working with highly complex systems, and enterprise architectures
- Proven technical troubleshooting and performance tuning experience, especially in a virtual (VMware) infrastructure
- Experience with Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)
- Experience working with diverse storage technologies (Block, NFS) in a virtualized environment.
- Experience with core networking concepts
- ITIL concepts strongly preferred
- Excellent time management and prioritization skill.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor of Science degree or the equivalent experience must be relevant to virtualization.
- Practical experience in deployment, management, and troubleshooting of VMware vCloud Director or similar cloud computing products preferred.
- Practical understanding of Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
- Hand on working knowledge of virtualization and cloud computing concepts and technologies
- Hand on working knowledge of vSphere 6 platform suite including but not limited to design, configuration, daily administration, capacity planning, and solving related problems
- Hands on experience with Cisco UCS
- Demonstrable experience with automation and configuration tools such as PowerShell (PowerCLI), Python, Ansible.
Industry Experience:
- VCP 6 Preferred
- Cisco CCNA data center preferred
At OpenText we understand and value diversity in our employees and are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.