Lead Cloud Network Engineer

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

Your Impact
As a
Lead Cloud Network Engineer
, you'll be at the heart of designing, implementing, and optimizing network infrastructure across on-prem OpenText datacenters and cloud environments, including leading hyperscaler platforms. You'll collaborate with DevOps teams, cloud architects, and infrastructure experts to build scalable, automated, and efficient networking solutions.

Your skills in
Terraform
,
CI/CD pipelines
, and
cloud-native network management
will help enable rapid deployment and continuous integration of networking components—keeping our global operations running smoothly.

What You'll Do

• Provide day-to-day support for routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers used 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 datacenters and cloud environments using industry best practices.
• Develop and maintain Terraform scripts to automate 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.
• Monitor network performance across on-prem and cloud platforms, ensuring high availability and minimal downtime, while analyzing capacity and health.
• Recommend and plan improvements to enhance the existing network environment.

What You Need To Succeed

• Hands-on experience with network technologies and design best practices.
• Extensive experience with network devices – ideally around 10 years working with a variety of hardware and technologies.
• Strong background in Network Engineering – typically 10+ years designing, implementing, and troubleshooting network solutions.
• Hands-on experience with software-defined networking (SDN) – at least 5 years working with platforms like VMware NSX, Juniper, Cisco, or similar.
• Strong background in designing and managing networking solutions for large-scale on-prem and cloud environments.
• Familiarity with software-defined networking (SDN) and related technologies.
• Experience supporting complex technical environments with a professional, collaborative approach.
• Excellent communication skills—able to present technical recommendations clearly to diverse audiences.
• Ability to provide 24/7 support for a highly available and resilient network infrastructure through a regular on-call rotation.

OpenText's efforts to build an inclusive work environment go beyond simply complying with applicable laws. Our Employment Equity and Diversity Policy provides direction on maintaining a working environment that is inclusive of everyone, regardless of culture, national origin, race, color, gender, gender identification, sexual orientation, family status, age, veteran status, disability, religion, or other basis protected by applicable laws.

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