Network Engineer

Job Purpose and Impact

The Network DevOps Engineer will automate, operate, and own Cargills 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 Cargills software defined network capabilities.

Key Accountabilities

Use software development and infrastructure as code practices to design and build APIs for automating Cargills software defined networking environment.

Partner with multiple engineering teams to understand automation requirements for Networking infrastructure.

Participate in the engineering community, share new technical trends and develop modern skills and engineering best practices across Cargill.

Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience

Minimum of 6 years of related work experience.

Software development experience using Python.

Experience in automating software defined networking infrastructure using Python APIs.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience building and managing network capabilities and platforms which automate the provisioning, deployment, and ongoing management of network infrastructure.

Knowledge of network, including switching, routing, software and traditional WAN, firewall, load-balancing, networking protocols, DNS, DHCP, network observability.

Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery tooling to drive infrastructure code deployment across cloud and on-premises networks

Experience working with agile teams, leveraging modern engineering tools and practices to manage team backlog, planned work, and issue tracking.

Experience in conducting code reviews, managing version control using GitHub, and automating workflows with GitHub Actions.

In-depth knowledge of Python for network automation, including proficiency in writing efficient, reusable scripts and leveraging custom as well as public libraries. Experienced in using Ansible for configuration management and automating complex network

tasks. and experience with containerization technologies, particularly Docker or Podman. Strong knowledge of Debian-based operating systems like Ubuntu.

Worked in a large scale, multi-national company, with a distributed Information Technology team