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Your Impact
Join OpenText in Cork, Ireland, as a Senior Cloud Application Engineer responsible for designing, Implementing and maintaining enterprise observability and monitoring stack across hybrid/cloud platforms. This role provides deep technical expertise, drives best practices, improves monitoring quality, and ensures high reliability, actionable alerting, and ITIL-aligned operations in collaboration with NOC, engineering teams, and leadership.
What the role offers
- Deploying, configuring and maintaining monitoring and alerting systems including Operations Bridge Manager (OBM), Network Node Manager (NNMi), Zabbix, Prometheus, and Graylog.
- Developing enterprise-wide SLIs/SLOs and ensure effective alerting aligned to business impact.
- Serving as the primary engineering escalation point for NOC, operations, and product teams.
- Leading complex incident resolution, root-cause analysis, and post-incident improvement plans.
- Driving automation initiatives: monitoring provisioning, configurations, and remediation workflows.
- Be part of the 24/7 Tier-3 support team and participate in support and incident calls and lead post incident reviews adhering to ITIL Processes.
- Developing automation for monitoring provisioning using Python, Bash, Terraform, and Ansible.
- Ensuring GDPR and DPZ compliance for EMEA-region workloads.
- Implementing AI-driven improvements such as anomaly detection and AI-assisted troubleshooting.
- Using AI copilots for automation, documentation, and script generation.
- Maintaining high-quality documentation and operational runbooks.
What you need to succeed
- Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent
- 4+ years of relevant experience in the field
- Hands-on experience with Observability and Monitoring technologies (correlation, event pipelines, topology, service modeling) along with Graylog, Prometheus.
- Expertise in NNMi skills: network topology, polling strategies, SNMP, traps, RCA.
- Deep understanding of Zabbix architectures, templates, event routing, and automation.
- Proven SRE experience with SLIs/SLOs, reliability architecture, and incident management.
- Strong Linux, Kubernetes, networking, and scaling concepts for production systems.
- Expertise in automation using Python, Bash, Terraform, and Ansible integration with GitLab pipelines.
- Strong understanding of GDPR principles, data protection rules, and EMEA data residency requirements.
- Foundational understanding of AI Concepts, Machine learning basics.
- Observability Tools (hands-on) : NewRelic and/or Dynatrace
- Nice to have skills: Enterprise OpenTelemetry pipeline design and collector configurations; Experience with OpsBridge Aviator, SMAX, or AIOps-driven correlation engines; Elasticsearch, Kibana, Grafana; Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP monitoring tools; Exposure to SIEM, security logging, and compliance frameworks; Kafka/AMQP pipelines; Light programming in Go or Java for exporters/integrations.
- • Kubernetes (CKA/CKAD), cloud certifications, or Zabbix certifications are a plus.
- • GCP Cloud certifications will be an advantage
One last thing
OpenText is more than just a corporation; it's a global community where trust is foundational, the bar is raised, and outcomes are owned. This is a chance to join our Cork-based team as a Senior Cloud Application Engineer, leading the design, implementation, and evolution of enterprise observability and monitoring across hybrid and cloud platforms while driving reliability, best practices, and ITIL-aligned operations.
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