Network Automation Engineer

Cargill's size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. We are a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials - from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Network DevOps Engineer will automate, operate, and own Cargill's software-defined network infrastructure with an initial focus on SD-WAN. In this role, you will use modern infrastructure and software engineering practices to architect, build, secure, and maintain Cargill's software-defined network capabilities. You will provide technical guidance to multiple engineering teams, including Network, Cloud, Hosting, Enablement Tooling, and Infrastructure Automation.

Key Accountabilities

• Use software development and infrastructure as code practices to design, build, and support software network capabilities.
• Partner with multiple engineering teams to resolve complex problems and remove roadblocks.
• Work as part of an agile team, developing new capabilities and acting as part of an on-call rotation.
• Participate in the engineering community by coaching and mentoring engineers, sharing new technical trends, and developing modern skills and engineering best practices across Cargill.
• Develop and deploy automation solutions to optimize network operations, utilizing tools like Python, GitHub Actions, Visual Studio Code, FastAPI, Postman, and Datadog. Drive efficiency and reduce manual intervention through innovative automation strategies.
• Tackle complex challenges with a solutions-oriented mindset, independently managing issues with minimal supervision.

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
Minimum of two years of related work experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience building and managing network capabilities and platforms that automate the provisioning, deployment, and ongoing management of network devices.
• Experience across various areas of network, including switching, routing, software and traditional WAN, firewall, load-balancing, networking protocols, DNS, DHCP, network observability.
• Experience with automation and configuration management tooling, including Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, and network orchestration.
• Experience with application development, including the architecture, build, security, support, and testing of modern web applications using languages like Python, Golang, Java, and JavaScript.
• Experience working with agile teams, leveraging modern engineering tools and practices to manage team backlog, planned work, and issue tracking

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Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.