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Job Purpose and Impact

The Senior Network Engineer will design transformation, deployment, automation, operation, and own Cargill's software defined network infrastructure with an initial focus on migration of legacy networking infrastructure to modern software defined networking infrastructure. In this role you will provide thought leadership and actively engage in a network transformation project to migrate legacy physical networking infrastructure to Modern software defined networking infrastructure to architect, build, secure, and maintain.

• Provide technical leadership and influence the use of software development and infrastructure as code practices to design, build and support software defined network capabilities.
• Provide expert leadership across network teams to resolve complex problems and remove roadblocks.
• Participate in the engineering community by being a coach and mentor to engineers, share new technical trends and develop modern skills and engineering best practices across Cargill.

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in the field of Networking (Routing, Switching and SD WAN)
• Knowledge in Software Defined Networks.
• Experience on Versa & Cisco products with ability to design, implement and troubleshooting skills.

• Expert level knowledge on WAN technologies and protocols, not limited to BGP, OSPF, QoS, CoS, ACLs, NAT/CGNAT, MPLS, VPNs & IPSec.
• At least 8 years' experience in maintaining and managing networks running OSPF and BGP routing protocols with QoS implementations. CCIE SP or Enterprise certification is preferred.
• Ability to develop low-level design (LLD) for proposed network architecture.
• Knowledge of automation and scripting of network configurations with know-how of python, bash, docker is preferred. Working experience in source code management tools like GitHub.
• Experience working with agile teams, leveraging modern engineering tools and practices to manage team backlog, planned work, and issue tracking.
• Lead the design, deployment and enhancement of complex WAN and Data Centre Networking infrastructure.