Cloud Automation & AI Architect

OPENTEXT - THE INFORMATION COMPANYOpenText 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.

AI-First. Future-Driven. Human-Centered.

At Open Text, AI is at the heart of everything we do—powering innovation, transforming work, and empowering digital knowledge workers. We are hiring talent AI can't replace to help us shape the future of information management. Join us.

YOUR IMPACTAs 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. We are looking for a strategic, automation-driven technical leader who thrives on defining standards and collaborating across functions to deliver highly reliable, scalable services for Open Text’s enterprise cloud platforms.

In this role, you will be a driving force behind a new enterprise-wide automation program aimed at reducing operational toil, enhancing system reliability, and enabling intelligent, scalable IT operations.

This is a senior individual contributor role with strong technical leadership influence, ideal for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of platform development, SRE, and automation strategy. You’ll have the opportunity to make a visible, organization-wide impact by shaping how automation is adopted and scaled across diverse teams and environments.

WHAT

THE ROLE OFFERSDefine 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 development, 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 tribute to automation enablement through reference architectures, design templates, technical documentation, and knowledge sharing across teams.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED7+ 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 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…