Lead Automation Architect

Open Text 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.

As a Lead Automation Architect, you will establish the technical foundation of this initiative designing architectures, frameworks, and reusable patterns that empower teams to build automation once and scale it across multiple platforms and services. You will champion best practices that not only streamline operations but also accelerate delivery and improve overall service resilience. This senior individual‑contributor role with strong technical leadership influence is ideal for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of platform engineering, SRE, and automation strategy.

• Define and own the technical architecture for the enterprise automation program, including tooling, frameworks, and integration patterns.
• Design scalable automation solutions supporting platform and infrastructure use cases such as provisioning, configuration management, patching, lifecycle operations, observability, and remediation.
• Establish and maintain automation standards, including:
  • Development and coding standards
  • Reusability and modular design patterns
  • Logging, metrics, and observability requirements
  • Lifecycle management, versioning, and repository standards
• Serve as a design authority for complex or high‑impact automation initiatives, reviewing solution designs and ensuring alignment with architectural standards.
• Partner with SRE, platform engineering, security, and product teams to ensure automations are reliable, secure, and production‑ready.
• Define and enforce repository standards, including structure, branching and release strategies, documentation requirements, access controls, and lifecycle governance to ensure automation assets are secure, maintainable, discoverable, and reusable at scale.
• Contribute to automation enablement through reference architectures, design templates, technical documentation, and knowledge sharing across teams.

• 7+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, SRE, or automation‑centric roles.
• Proven experience designing and implementing automation at scale in enterprise environments.
• Hands‑on expertise with automation technologies such as:
  • Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Cloud Formation, ARM)
  • Configuration management and orchestration tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
  • Scripting languages (e.g., Python, Power Shell, Bash)
  • Source control and CI/CD platforms (e.g., Git Lab and Git Lab CI/CD)
  • Agentic and workflow‑driven automation, including event‑driven or AI‑assisted workflows
• Strong understanding of SRE fundamentals and production operations, including reliability and resilience, observability capabilities, and service delivery through automated deployment and runtime operations.
• Ability to operate independently on complex technical problems and influence across teams without direct authority.

• Experience defining automation standards or frameworks adopted by multiple teams and supporting on‑premises and cloud environments, including hybrid and multi‑cloud platforms.
• Exposure to operational intelligence, analytics‑driven automation, or AIOps concepts.

Open Text offers a thoughtfully designed benefits package that supports your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. As you move through the hiring process, we’re happy to provide more details about our compensation programs, including variable and commission…