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Lead Storage Administrator


Company : OpenText


Location : Waterloo, Region of Waterloo


Created : 2025-10-17


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

Join to apply for the Lead Storage Administrator role at OpenText OpenText is a global leader in information management, where innovation, creativity, and collaboration are core to our culture. As a member of our team, you will partner with worldclass companies, 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 what we dodriving innovation, transforming work, and empowering digital knowledge workers. We are hiring talent that AI cant replace to help shape the future of information management. Your Impact The OpenText Storage Administrator will support general maintenance and upkeep of our global storage environment. Responsibilities include deploying storage changes, collaborating with vendors, maintaining storage infrastructure, ensuring performance specifications are met, and other duties as directed. This role participates in an oncall rotation to manage productionimpacting issues and reports to the Senior Manager of Storage, focusing on the Corporate and Lab business. What The Role Offers Supporting the Operations Organization by translating storage needs into configuration specifications that provide a robust, stable, and maintainable Production Storage Processing environment, meeting or exceeding all Business Requirements. Participate in strategic projects Provide oversight of the global storage footprint Provide storage forecasts based on usage and trending Stay up to date with storage manufacturers' product offerings Adhere to ITIL standards and processes Provide Level 3 expertise for break/fix issues Ensure accurate and non-disruptive changes in production by collaborating with technical services and storage resources What You Need To Succeed B.S. in Computer Science / Information Systems or equivalent combination of education and experience 58 years of progressively responsible storage experience Primarily NetApp and EMC storage technologies; familiarity with PURE, HP 3PAR, and related arrays is a plus Storage allocation, upgrades, and optimization; storage performance tuning Proactive monitoring and tools implementation Cisco MDS and Brocade SAN switch installation, configuration, and administration Storage management tools (NetApp BlueXP, NetApp DII, NetApp AIQUM, ECC, SE, ESRS, SCG, SMC/SPA) Experience with NetApp HCI, NetApp AFF & FAS, EMC PMAX/VMAX/UNITY/VNX/Symmetrix, HP 3PAR, and Cisco/Brocade SAN switches Familiarity with VMware, HyperV, OpenStack is an asset Basic understanding of system administration, troubleshooting, and performance tuning of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, HPUX, Solaris, and Windows Servers Experience with iSCSI, NFS, NAS, SAN, FC, CIFS, S3 (object) Exposure to Public Cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure) and scripting (Python, Ansible, PowerShell) is an asset Experience using AI to develop strategies to automate workloads and processes, with a commitment to safe and secure handling of sensitive information EEO and Accommodation OpenTexts Employment Equity and Diversity Policy supports an inclusive environment for all. If you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please contact . #J-18808-Ljbffr