Sr. Systems Administrator - VMware & CISCO UCS

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: 

As a Sr. System Administrator with the Infrastructure Operations team at OpenText will assist with Compute services on our global compute infrastructure in a Commercial environment. Included in this, are deployments/maintenance of computing infrastructure, working with vendors, ensuring performance specifications are met and other duties as directed. You will also participate in on-call rotation to handle production-impacting issues.

What it Takes:

• Installation, Maintenance, and upkeep of global Physical & Virtual compute infrastructure
• Deployments, Patching, Upgrade, Administration, and Migrations of Compute Infrastructure
• Work global cross functional teams, vendor escalations & coordination
• Fulfillment of day to day requests from users, and performance specifications
• Support Change Management, Release Management, Ops PMO Projects
• Respond to incident calls, joining conference bridges and plan day to accommodate off hour project and team meetings
• Participate in scheduled systems maintenance activities during weekends and off hours
• 24x7 oncall on rotation – at least one week in a month

You are great at: 

• Education: B.E/B.Tech in computer science / information systems or equivalent. 
• Experience: 5+ Years of experience in infrastructure operations as Systems Administrator in Production and non-production environments.  
• Experience in VMWare vCenter, Cisco UCS, Dell iDRAC, vCloud Dir, vRops, Zabbix and LogInsight.
• Experience in Physical & Virtual Servers Administration with Operating Systems like ESXi, (RedHat 5.x/6.x/7.x/8.x, SUSE (SLES 11/12/15) and Windows Server.
• Ansible based Automation and Experience in writing Playbooks and Scripting. (Basic knowledge mandatory)
• Knowledge on
  • Active directory/ DHCP/ Domain Controllers
  • NFS, Auto mounts
  • DNS, SMTP
  • RedHat-Satellite Capsule
  • Network and Storage Technologies
• Good to have additional skills:
  • Hands on experience in handling datacenter operations (inclusive of Racking /Mounting / Cabling/ Troubleshooting of software & hardware) & should be able to interact with customers and staff at the technical level, as required.
  • Conduct system security audits, system security checks Setup and administration of multi-tier computing system environments
  • Understand ITIL Standards and ITSM Processes

At OpenText we understand and value diversity in our employees and are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.