OpenText

Cloud Applications Engineer - Monitoring & Observability

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3 days ago
Cork, IrelandMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Set up, configure, and maintain monitoring and alerting systems including Operations Bridge Manager, Network Node Manager, Zabbix, Prometheus, and Graylog.
  • Define and maintain service-level indicators, service-level objectives, and alerting quality.
  • Build dashboards and service health views.
  • Coordinate with the NOC on alert routing and escalation.
  • Support critical production environments through Tier 3 support and post-incident reviews.
  • Deploy, upgrade, and manage observability components in Linux and Kubernetes environments.
  • Automate monitoring tasks using Python, Bash, Terraform, and Ansible.
  • Maintain log and metrics pipelines.
  • Integrate monitoring with ITSM tools for incident, change, and CMDB processes.
  • Apply ITIL practices and maintain technical documentation.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • At least 2 years of relevant experience.
  • Knowledge of system administration, hybrid applications, monitoring, and ITIL concepts.
  • Expertise installing and maintaining observability, monitoring, log aggregation, and automation tools.
  • Strong experience with Zabbix, Operations Bridge Manager, Network Node Manager, Graylog, and Ansible.
  • Understanding of SRE foundations including SLIs, SLOs, incident response, and postmortems.
  • Linux administration experience and proficiency with Kubernetes, including open-source Kubernetes, GKE, and/or EKS.
  • Python and Bash scripting proficiency.
  • Experience with Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, and GitLab.
  • Understanding of TCP/IP, SNMP, DNS, Syslog, and APIs.
  • Experience with New Relic and Dynatrace.
  • Foundational understanding of AI concepts and machine learning basics.
  • Ability to use LLM-based tools for troubleshooting, documentation, and automation.
  • Preferred experience with OpenTelemetry, OpsBridge Aviator, SMAX integrations, AIOps, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Grafana, AWS, GCP, Azure cloud monitoring, security operations, Kafka, AMQP, Go, or Java.

Benefits

  • Onsite role based in Cork, Ireland.
  • Opportunity to work on hybrid and cloud platform reliability, observability, and monitoring.
  • Inclusive workplace with collaboration, innovation, and personal growth.
  • Reasonable accommodation support is available during the application and recruiting process.

Tech Stack

AnsibleApache KafkaAWSAzureBashElasticsearchGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaGraylogJavaKibanaKubernetesLinuxPrometheusPythonTerraform

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
OpenText

About OpenText

10,000+ employees

OpenText builds enterprise information management software and cloud services spanning content services, customer communications, B2B/EDI integration, eDiscovery, and cybersecurity. It sells licenses, subscriptions, and managed services to large enterprises and governments, with offerings available on-premises and in the cloud. Founded in 1991 and headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, OpenText (NASDAQ/TSX: OTEX) has expanded through major acquisitions, including Micro Focus (2023) and Documentum (2017).

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