The role involves leading platform engineering to design, develop, and maintain digital technology infrastructure, improving application performance, and mentoring teams.
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 Advisor, Platform Engineering job leads designing, developing and maintaining digital technology infrastructure to support information technology applications and services. As a recognized subject matter authority in platform engineering, this job leads and advises cross functional teams to define, design and implement new features to meet user needs and business goals and upgrade existing platforms to improve performance and functionality through writing clean, efficient and scalable code and troubleshooting and debugging highly complex issues. This job also leads code reviews to maintain high code quality and advance platform engineering teams' capabilities.
Key Accountabilities
- SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: Leads the design and development of high quality software solutions by writing clean, maintainable and efficient codes.
- AUTOMATION: Advises to improve the application of internal software deployment platform, continuous integration or continuous delivery pipeline and twelve factor development methodology to automate the deployment process, ensuring smooth and reliable releases.
- COLLABORATION: Leads cross functional team of product managers, designers and other engineers to gather requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
- TESTING & DEBUGGING: Writes and maintains highly complex unit tests and integration tests, and performs debugging to maintain the quality and performance of the software, applying test driven development as needed.
- CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Proposes continuous improvement initiatives for the software development and deployment processes, and leads implementing approved standards to improve efficiency and reliability.
- DOCUMENTATION: Leads the establishment and maintenance of comprehensive documentation for software applications, deployment processes and system configurations.
- TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Leads and mentors technical support and troubleshooting for highly complex issues with deployed applications to ensure minimal downtime and fast resolution.
Qualifications
- Minimum requirement of 6 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 10 years or more of relevant experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Need to be located in Atlanta, GA (Hybrid position)
- Experience in ServiceNow
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Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.
Top Skills
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Integration
Servicenow
Software Development Methodologies
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