Senior Site Reliability Engineer: Cloud, Kubernetes & CI/CD

OpenText; Southwestern Ontario; On-site; CAD 118,000 - 168,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenText in Ontario is seeking a Site Reliability Administrator to own containerized platform delivery and operations across our global customer base. You will troubleshoot, automate, and optimize cloud and on-premises environments, focusing on reliability, security, and performance of distributed services.

The role requires strong Linux expertise, hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps tooling, plus the ability to work across time zones and participate in on-call

Qualifications

• MS/BS in Computer Science, some certification on GCP / AWS preferred.
• Deep understanding of Linux systems and experience with virtualization technologies (like VMware) and storage backends (like Netapps) preferred.
• Experience on GitOps based deployments and tools (ACM, ArgoCD, Gitlab CD, Tekton, etc)
• Proven experience in automating infrastructure via code.
• Minimum of 5 years of software engineering or operations experience with a focus on Cloud development and container technologies.
• Proficiency in a scripting language such as Python, PowerShell, or Bash. Some experience in Golang is preferred.
• Strong ansible and terraform coding skills.
• Experience with monitoring tools like SolarWinds, NewRelic, Zabbix, Prometheus/Grafana, Kiali, etc
• Experience with containers and knowledge of Kubernetes in multiple flavors, k8s, Bosh CFCR, GKE, EKS, etc.
• Be able to participate in off‑hours troubleshooting / On‑call shifts, if and as required.

Responsibilities

• Running software applications on containerized public and private cloud infrastructure.
• Planning, testing, and implementing solutions for monitoring, alerting, and observability of platform services.
• Deployment, management, and optimization of application containers and their security.
• Build methods to advance automation and security for cloud and container-based applications to realize DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of Kubernetes, Docker, GitOps, Ci/CD pipelines, IaC, PaaS.
• Developing standards, policies, and procedures as well as best practices documentation.
• Automating solutions to follow ITIL and change management procedures within OpenText.

Skills

GitOps deployments

Python scripting

Bash scripting

PowerShell scripting

Containers & Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Education

MS/BS in Computer Science

GCP/AWS certification

Tools

GitOps tools (ACM, ArgoCD, Gitlab CD, Tekton)

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes (multi-flavour)

Job description

OpenText in Ontario is seeking a Site Reliability Administrator to own containerized platform delivery and operations across our global customer base. You will troubleshoot, automate, and optimize cloud and on-premises environments, focusing on reliability, security, and performance of distributed services.

The role requires strong Linux expertise, hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps tooling, plus the ability to work across time zones and participate in on-call