Cloud Network Engineer

Principal Cloud Network Engineer

OpenText

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Waterloo, Ontario, CAPosted Today

Role Overview

OpenText is hiring a Principal Cloud Network Engineer. This is a full-time role in Waterloo. posted today. applications are still in the early window, before most candidates have applied. Full responsibilities, required qualifications, and the apply link are listed in the description below.

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Job Description

Opentext - The Information Company

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.

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 are hiring talent AI can't replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us.

Your Impact

This role will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and optimizing network infrastructure within on-prem OpenText datacenters. You will work closely with internal stakeholders, architects, and infrastructure teams to create scalable, resilient, redundant and efficient networking solutions.

The network devices consist of routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, tools and monitoring and network technologies. The successful candidate will have extensive experience in managing, maintaining, and enhancing a highly resilient business network within on-prem datacenters, and understand the challenges of supporting a 24x7 global operation.

The engineer will follow process 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 datacenter infrastructure and cloud network technologies.
• Work diligently to meet project and business timelines for design and deployment of network infrastructure.
• Work to provide 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.
• Build highly available, scalable, and secure networking solutions for on-prem datacenter networks, utilizing industry best practices.
• 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.
• Troubleshoot complex network issues across hybrid environments (on-premises and cloud.
• Create clear, detailed documentation for network designs, deployments, and configurations.
• Establish and enforce networking best practices, standards, and guidelines for the team and broader organization.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including across network teams, architects, security teams, cloud operations and software developers, to ensure that network solutions align with the overall business goals and objectives.
• 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

• Candidates must have hands on knowledge of network technologies and methodologies.
• Current with network technologies consisting of network design best practices.
• Experience designing and managing networking solutions within large-scale on-prem network.
• Shall have experience supporting complex technical environments, and someone that carries a professional, business-focused attitude and courteous manner towards clients, partners and peers.
• Candidate must have excellent written, presentation, and verbal communication skills including demonstrated experience presenting technology recommendations.
• Understanding of software-defined networking (SDN) and related technologies is beneficial.
• Experience with containerized networking, Kubernetes, and Docker networking in cloud environments is beneficial.
• Experience working with various network devices in a large enterprise network.
• Experience in general Network Engineering in support of enterprise applications.
• Experience supporting software defined network technologies (VMWare NSX, Juniper, Cisco etc) a plus.
• Proficient in a variety of network technology platforms – Routers, Switches, Firewalls including vendors such as Cisco, Arista, Juniper, Checkpoint, F5
• Proficiency in networking concepts, including IP addressing, subnetting, VPNs, Load Balancers, DNS, and firewalls in on-prem environments.
• Experience working in a team environment
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting and communications skills
• Expertise on design, build 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 in designing and managing networking solutions within large-scale infrastructures
• An education in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline; or equivalent experience is required.

One Last Thing

OpenText is more than just a corporation, it's a global community where trust is foundational, the bar is raised, and outcomes are owned.

Join us on our mission to drive positive change through privacy, technology, and collaboration. At OpenText, we don't just have a culture; we have character

OpenText's commitment to diversity and inclusion surpasses legal requirements, evident in our Equal Employment Opportunity Statement of Policy which promotes a respectful and empowering environment for employees of all backgrounds, culture, national origin, race, color, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, family status, age, veteran status, disability, religion, or other basis protected by applicable laws.

If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please contact us at hr@opentext.com. Our proactive approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and personal growth, enriching OpenText's vibrant workplace.

Compensation

At OpenText, we offer a thoughtfully designed benefits package that supports your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. A summary of those benefits can be found on our Why Join Us page.

As you move through the hiring process, we’re happy to provide more details about our compensation programs, including variable and commission compensation opportunities for eligible roles, vacation entitlement, and paid time off.

Salary Range

118,000 - 177,000 CAD per annum; Depending on the candidate’s education, experience, skills, geographical location, and alignment with internal equity and external market, actual salary may vary and be higher or lower than the range posted.