OpenText

Sr. Technical Support Specialist

OpenText$72K — $108K *
Technical Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in technical support or customer-facing technical roles.
  • Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic skills for complex tech issues.
  • Solid knowledge of Linux OS including performance troubleshooting.
  • Understanding of networking fundamentals like DNS, TCP/IP, and firewalls.
  • Experience with databases and enterprise technologies.
  • Familiarity with monitoring and observability concepts.
  • Experience with cloud technologies like AWS or Azure; scripting knowledge is a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Deliver expert technical support for OSM solutions to optimize IT operations.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve complex software and infrastructure challenges.
  • Serve as an escalation point for high-impact customer issues.
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to investigate defects and improve products.
  • Lead customer communications during critical situations to build trust.
  • Create and enhance knowledge base content to drive best practices.
  • Mentor peers to elevate overall support capabilities.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package supporting physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.
  • Collaborative work environment fostering technical expertise and career growth.
Full Job Description
YOUR IMPACT
A Senior Technical Support Specialist at OpenText is more than a support role-it's an opportunity to become a trusted technical advisor for some of the world's largest organizations. You will play a critical role in helping customers maximize the value of their OpenText Operations Service Management (OSM) solutions, ensuring the reliability, visibility, and performance of their most critical IT services. Through technical expertise, collaboration, and customer advocacy, you'll directly influence customer success while helping drive operational excellence across complex enterprise environments.

WHAT THE ROLE OFFERS
• Deliver expert-level technical support and guidance for OpenText OSM solutions, helping customers maintain and optimize mission-critical IT operations.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex software, infrastructure, and integration challenges across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Serve as a trusted escalation point for customers and team members, driving timely resolution of high-impact and business-critical issues.
• Collaborate with Product Engineering and cross-functional teams to investigate defects, validate solutions, and influence product improvements.
• Lead customer communications during critical situations, building confidence and strengthening long-term customer relationships.
• Contribute to operational excellence by creating and enhancing knowledge base content, promoting best practices, and driving continuous improvement initiatives.
• Mentor and support peers by sharing technical expertise, fostering team growth, and helping elevate overall support capabilities.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED
• 5+ years of experience in technical support, enterprise software support, or a related customer-facing technical role.
• Strong troubleshooting, diagnostic, and analytical skills, with experience investigating and resolving complex technical issues across software, infrastructure, and integrated environments.
• Solid knowledge of Linux operating systems, including log analysis, performance troubleshooting, and system administration concepts.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals such as DNS, TCP/IP, ports, firewalls, proxies, load balancers, and connectivity troubleshooting.
• Experience working with enterprise technologies including databases (PostgreSQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, or similar), web and application servers, and authentication or TLS/SSL concepts.
• Familiarity with enterprise monitoring and observability concepts, including events, metrics, alerts, topology, discovery, agents, integrations, and operational intelligence platforms.
• Experience with cloud and modern deployment technologies, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, containers, and High Availability/Disaster Recovery environments; exposure to scripting or automation using Python, PowerShell, Shell, Perl, or similar technologies is an asset.
• Excellent communication, customer relationship management, and collaboration skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, lead technical discussions, and work effectively across teams.

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 an exciting opportunity to deepen your technical expertise, work with industry-leading technologies, influence customer success at a global scale, and grow your career as a recognized technical expert within a collaborative and supportive team.

Compensation: At OpenText, we offer a thoughtfully designed benefits package that supports your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. A summary of those benefits can be found on our Why Join Us page. As you move through the hiring process, we're happy to provide more details about our compensation programs, including variable and commission compensation opportunities for eligible roles, vacation entitlement, and paid time off.

Salary Range: $72,160- $108,240; Depending on the candidate's education, experience, skills, geographical location, and alignment with internal equity and external market, actual salary may vary and be higher or lower than the range posted.

AI Usage Disclosure: As part of our commitment to transparency, we use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to assist in various stages of our recruitment process, including resume screening, candidate matching, interview scheduling, and communications. These tools are designed to improve efficiency, reduce bias, and enhance candidate experience. All decisions regarding hiring are made by qualified human professionals, and we continuously monitor our AI systems to ensure fairness and compliance with applicable regulations.

About OpenText

OpenText Corporation is a Canadian company that develops and sells enterprise information management software. The company is headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. OpenText software applications manage content or unstructured data for large companies, government agencies, and professional service firms. OpenText aims to help customers digitize their operations and optimize their information management processes. The company has made several acquisitions over the years to expand its product offerings and customer base. OpenText has a global presence with offices in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Learn more about OpenText
Size
14,300 employees
Market Cap
$7.8 billion
Industry
Founded
1991
5 Year Trend
+8.8%
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