Network DevOps Engineer

Job Purpose and Impact

The Network DevOps Engineer will design automate operate and continuously improve Cargills global software-defined network infrastructure with an initial focus on the Versa SD-WAN 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

• Bachelors 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.