Sr. Systems Administrator

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.