Sr. Network Specialist

Job title:

Sr. Network Specialist

Company

OpenText

Job description

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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.YOUR IMPACT
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.
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 data centers and cloud environments, and understands the challenges of supporting a 24×7 global operation. The engineer will follow processes and standards, the responsibility consists of working as an individual or within a team to implement and coordinate highly complex network deployments.WHAT THE ROLE OFFERS

• Provide expert-level network design, understand all aspects and best practices for business network data center infrastructure and cloud network technologies.
• Work diligently to meet project and business timelines for the design and deployment of network infrastructure.
• Work to provide the best solutions for connectivity between data centers and clients.
• Provide 24/7 support for a highly available and resilient Network infrastructure through a regular on-call rotation
• Provide day-to-day support for routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers utilized by Network Operations.
• Design, deploy, and manage network infrastructure on hyperscaler platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Build highly available, scalable, and secure networking solutions for on-prem data center networks and cloud environments, utilizing industry best practices.
• Develop and maintain Terraform scripts to automate the provisioning and configuration of networking resources across multiple cloud platforms.
• Work with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI, etc.) to implement pipeline integration and continuous deployment of network resources.
• Plan and recommend designs that could improve the existing network environment.
• Monitor network performance across on-prem network and cloud platforms, ensuring high availability and minimal downtime, meanwhile providing analysis of capacity and health
• Stay current with the latest developments in cloud networking and automation technologies to suggest and implement improvements to existing systems.
• Ability to work after hours & on-call evenings/weekends

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED

• An education in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline; or equivalent experience is required.
• Minimum 10 years experience working with various network devices and general Network Engineering
• Minimum 5+ years’ experience supporting software-defined network technologies (VMWare NSX, Juniper, Cisco, etc)
• Minimum 4 years of experience in network engineering with a recent focus on cloud networking and hyperscaler platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Proficient in a variety of network technology platforms – Routers, Switches, and Firewalls including vendors such as Cisco, Arista, F5, Juniper, Checkpoint
• Proficiency in building, deploying, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for network automation.
• Experience with cloud-native networking services such as AWS VPC, Azure Virtual Network, Google Cloud VPC, and cloud-based DNS.
• Proficiency in networking concepts, including IP addressing, subnetting, VPNs, Load Balancers, DNS, and firewalls in cloud environments.
• Expertise in design, building, and support of network infrastructure.
• 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.
• Experience designing and managing networking solutions within large-scale cloud environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure automation (IAC).
• Proficiency in building, deploying, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for network automation.

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Expected salary

Location

Waterloo, ON

Job date

Thu, 03 Apr 2025 00:30:10 GMT

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