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The Role
Design, automate, operate, and improve Cargill's global software-defined WAN (Versa SD-WAN). Lead architecture and lifecycle management, build network automation and IaC (Python, Ansible, Terraform), enhance observability (Datadog, Versa analytics), troubleshoot complex WAN and routing issues, author designs and runbooks, and provide technical leadership and mentoring.
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Job Purpose and Impact
The Network DevOps Engineer will design, automate, operate, and continuously improve Cargill's global software-defined network infrastructure, with an initial focus on the Versa SD-WAN platform. In this role, you will apply modern software engineering, infrastructure as code, and site reliability practices to build secure, scalable, resilient, and supportable network capabilities.
Key Accountabilities
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
The Network DevOps Engineer will design, automate, operate, and continuously improve Cargill's global software-defined network infrastructure, with an initial focus on the Versa SD-WAN platform. In this role, you will apply modern software engineering, infrastructure as code, and site reliability practices to build secure, scalable, resilient, and supportable network capabilities.
Key Accountabilities
- Lead the architecture, engineering, deployment, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement of the global Versa SD-WAN platform, including orchestration, analytics, controllers, and branch appliances.
- Engineer resilient WAN solutions using strong routing and security fundamentals, including BGP, OSPF, IPsec, segmentation, quality of service, application-aware path selection, high availability, and cloud and internet connectivity.
- Develop reusable automation and infrastructure as code using Python, REST APIs, Ansible, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and related tools to standardize provisioning, configuration, validation, upgrades, and operational workflows.
- Establish and enforce engineering guardrails through version control, peer review, automated testing, configuration validation, secure secrets handling, deployment approvals, and reliable rollback procedures.
- Improve platform observability and reliability using Versa analytics, Datadog, telemetry, logging, dashboards, alerting, capacity analysis, and service-level measures to identify risk before it affects the business.
- Lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis for complex WAN, application performance, routing, carrier, and automation issues, partnering with operations teams, service providers, and vendors through incident, problem, and change management processes.
- Develop and maintain architecture standards, high-level and low-level designs, reusable code modules, support documentation, operational runbooks, and transition plans for production support teams.
- Provide technical leadership across engineering teams, remove delivery roadblocks, mentor engineers, and promote modern Network DevOps and software engineering practices across Cargill.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Minimum of five years of experience in network engineering, network automation, DevOps, platform engineering, or a related discipline.
- Hands-on experience supporting enterprise WAN or SD-WAN environments, with a strong understanding of TCP/IP, routing, VPN technologies, network security, and high-availability design.
- Demonstrated experience developing network automation with Python, Git-based workflows, REST APIs, and configuration or infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible or Terraform.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Five or more years of experience designing, automating, and supporting network platforms in a large, globally distributed enterprise environment.
- Hands-on experience engineering and operating Versa Networks SD-WAN, including Versa Director, Analytics, Controller, and branch appliance capabilities, or comparable enterprise SD-WAN platforms.
- Deep knowledge of BGP, OSPF, route redistribution, IPsec, quality of service, VRFs and segmentation, NAT, DNS, DHCP, firewall policy, resilient underlay and overlay design, and secure internet access patterns.
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines for network infrastructure using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent tools, including automated testing, code quality checks, approval controls, and deployment rollback.
- Experience creating network automation services and integrations using Python, FastAPI, Go, JavaScript, REST APIs, data models, and structured formats such as JSON and YAML.
- Experience with automated network testing and validation frameworks such as pytest, pyATS, Batfish, or equivalent tools.
- Experience with network observability and performance management using Datadog, Versa analytics, SNMP, syslog, streaming telemetry, dashboards, and event correlation.
- Experience with cloud networking and connectivity across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, including secure, multi-region, and highly available architectures.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Minimum of five years of experience in network engineering, network automation, DevOps, platform engineering, or a related discipline.
- Hands-on experience supporting enterprise WAN or SD-WAN environments, with a strong understanding of TCP/IP, routing, VPN technologies, network security, and high-availability design.
- Demonstrated experience developing network automation with Python, Git-based workflows, REST APIs, and configuration or infrastructure-as-code tools such as Ansible or Terraform.
- Five or more years of experience designing, automating, and supporting network platforms in a large, globally distributed enterprise environment.
- Hands-on experience engineering and operating Versa Networks SD-WAN including Versa Director, Analytics, Controller, and branch appliance capabilities, or comparable enterprise SD-WAN platforms.
- Deep knowledge of BGP, OSPF, route redistribution, IPsec, quality of service, VRFs and segmentation, NAT, DNS, DHCP, firewall policy, resilient underlay and overlay design, and secure internet access patterns.
- Experience building CI/CD pipelines for network infrastructure using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent tools, including automated testing, code quality checks, approval controls, and rollback.
- Experience creating network automation services and integrations using Python, FastAPI, Go, JavaScript, REST APIs, JSON, and YAML.
- Experience with automated network testing and validation frameworks such as pytest, pyATS, Batfish, or equivalent tools.
- Experience with network observability and performance management using Datadog, Versa analytics, SNMP, syslog, streaming telemetry, dashboards, and event correlation.
- Experience with cloud networking and connectivity across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, including secure, multi-region, and highly available architectures.
What the Team is Saying
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Principal Data Engineer
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Supply Chain Learning & Development and Digital Support Lead
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Software Engineer
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Factory of the Future Digital Product Manager
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Senior Software Engineer
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Senior Data Scientist
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Cargill Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Two-layer retirement program combines a 401(k) match (100% on the first 3%, 50% on the next 2%) with an employer-funded Employee Retirement Account of roughly 2.5–7% based on age and service. Match is delivered quarterly in company stock and the ERA adds long-term value through additional employer contributions.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO starts at 15 days and scales to 30 days with tenure, governed by a clear June 1–May 31 cycle. This structured ladder provides predictable time away as service grows.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid family leave offers up to 6 weeks to bond with a new child and 4 weeks to care for a family member or qualifying military needs. Additional supports such as Bright Horizons childcare solutions and Milk Stork reinforce family care.
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The Company
What We Do
We are a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. 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 flooring. By providing customers with products that are vital for living, we help businesses grow, communities prosper and consumers live well in their daily lives.
Why Work With Us
The decision to join Cargill can open the door to a world of possibility. As part of our Digital, Technology & Data team, you’ll get to be part of a large and diverse group full of unique perspectives united by a common, higher purpose while building a rewarding career full of opportunity, growth and the satisfaction of knowing your work matters.
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