OpenText

Lead Automation Architect

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Mississauga, Canada +2 moreStaff+

Base Salary

$98k - $147k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and own the technical architecture, tooling, frameworks, and integration patterns for an enterprise automation program.
  • Design scalable automation for provisioning, configuration management, patching, lifecycle operations, observability, and remediation.
  • Establish development, coding, reusability, modular design, logging, metrics, observability, versioning, and repository standards.
  • Act as the design authority for complex automation initiatives and review solution designs for architectural alignment.
  • Partner with SRE, platform development, security, and product teams to deliver reliable, secure, production-ready automation.
  • Define repository structure, branching and release strategies, documentation, access controls, and lifecycle governance.
  • Create reference architectures, design templates, technical documentation, and knowledge-sharing materials.

Requirements

  • At least 7 years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure development, SRE, or automation-centric roles.
  • Proven experience designing and implementing automation at scale in enterprise environments.
  • Hands-on expertise with infrastructure as code technologies such as Terraform, CloudFormation, and ARM.
  • Experience with configuration management and orchestration tools such as Ansible, Puppet, and Chef.
  • Experience with Python, PowerShell, and Bash scripting.
  • Experience with source control and CI/CD platforms such as GitLab and GitLab CI/CD.
  • Experience with agentic, workflow-driven, event-driven, or AI-assisted automation.
  • Strong understanding of SRE fundamentals, production operations, reliability, resilience, observability, and automated service delivery.
  • Ability to independently solve complex technical problems and influence teams without direct authority.
  • Experience defining automation standards or frameworks adopted by multiple teams across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.
  • Exposure to operational intelligence, analytics-driven automation, or AIOps concepts.

Benefits

  • OpenText offers a benefits package supporting physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.
  • Benefits may include vacation entitlement and paid time off; additional compensation program details are provided during the hiring process.

Tech Stack

AnsibleBashChefGitLab CI/CDPowerShellPuppetPythonTerraform

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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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