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:
The Lead Systems Administrator is primary source for Infrastructure support of all commercial environments - for any day-to-day operations issues, and for the upcoming projects/setups. On any given workday he/she may be responsible for all, or any subset of Systems, Hardware and Platforms, ensuring proper prioritization of activities and coordination/communication of these activities with management, next tier support organizations, including Engineering and their respective peers
What the role offers:

• Build Virtual Machines & Physical Machines per Standard setups
• Systems performance tuning and Administration
• Migrations, Upgrades and Patching the Systems and their Firmware
• Participate in Change management meetings, Readiness Reviews, Engineering/Comm Ops meetings, etc. as required to fulfill team responsibilities.
• Fulfillment of team responsibilities may require, from time to time, working outside of normally scheduled shift time to complete projects, maintenance and/or meet business commitments.
• Working cross functionally with the NOC (Tier I), Engineering and Deployment teams is critically important for the success of the larger organization.
• Fully support the Change Management, Release Management, Problem Management and Ops PMO activities/projects.
• Respond to Incident calls, joining conference bridges and MOC's.
• Proactively drive and troubleshooting issues.
• Assist Tier 1, troubleshoot and perform supportive actions as requested by subject matter experts/ Engineering.
• Position needs to participate on scheduled Systems Maintenance activities during off hours/weekends, and on call rotation.

What you need to succeed:

• 6-9 years of experience in Systems Administration and supporting Commercial environments.
• B.S / B.E. in computer Science or equivalent.
• Operating Systems: Advanced administrations skills on red hat Linux, Windows, and Systems Performance tuning
• Experience Working on VMware, NetBackup, Citrix, F5 load balancers, DNS, Networking, systems performance tuning
• Expertise on PowerShell scripting, shell scripting, Perl Scripting and Python scripting.
• Knowledge of Incident, Change & Problem Management/ticketing systems (HP SM)
• Desirable additional experience working on Storage Systems, San Switches, ESX Clusters
• Good analyzing & communication skills, self-motivated and passionate
• Systems Admin experience on Private Cloud infra setup and GPC & AWS infrastructure setups.
• Experience in developing and Deploying Ansible playbooks by integrating with Linux administration modules
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code
• Ability to troubleshoot issues in high pressure situations, resolving problems in a timely manner and keeping stake holders involved/updated

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