Lead Systems Administrator

Richmond Hill, ON, CA, Canada

Job Description

AI-First. Future-Driven. Human-Centered.

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.



YOUR IMPACTThe role of the Systems Administrator is to support the underlying OS that enhance the availability, performance, and stability of OpenText services.This role would be a great fit for someone with creative and innovative problem-solving skills. You will work with a team that manages, develops, and implements solutions that operate at scale. Our teams are empowered and expected to improve our products to truly deliver a reliable experience to customers.

WHAT THE ROLE OFFERSo Uses technical knowledge, creativity, and company practices to drive down occurrences of incidents through the development of proactive monitoring and alerting.o Provide attention to incidents according to Service Level Agreements.o Provide continuous feedback to development teams on system stability, defect analysis, and system enhancementso Work with IT business and development partners to gather input to develop new capabilities in displaying/monitoring/alerting on key performance indicators (KPIs) by tracking business transactions (BT) in real-timeo Take ownership and accountability for the incident resolution process, participating in RCA and SWAT investigations.o Plan for validation and verification of changes deployed by infrastructure teams, development teams.o Participate in day-to-day real-time technical support and troubleshooting on issues reported from the user/customer base.o Establish and maintain a good relationship with team members, Product Development, Product management, Customer Service, Client management, and other cross-functional teams.o Participate in training and information sharing activities.o Act as backup for other team members when necessary.o Requires rotating shift work as needed.o On-call rotation is required, as 7x24x365 support is required.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEEDo Deep understanding of Linux systemso Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure; Google, AWS, or Azure a plus o Experience with PaaS technologies such as Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, and Bosh.o Experience with Continuous delivery tools like Ansible, Rundeck, or Argo CD to set up automated pipelines as needed. o Experience in supporting middleware technologies such as Apache, Tomcat, and Spring.o Experience with at least one scripting language such as shell, Perl, Python, JavaScript, etc.o Experience with installing and configuring Apache and Tomcat.o Deep expertise in monitoring distributed systems application architectures and the ability to correlate environment conditions and metrics to application events.o Experience with APM tools such as New Relic, Dynatrace, or AppDynamics.o Experience with monitoring tools such as Zabbix or check_mk.o Strong understanding of ITIL principles, certification is a plus.o A proven record of being able to work independently and collaboratively.



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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD2511897
  • Industry
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  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Richmond Hill, ON, CA, Canada
  • Education
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