Operations Technology Support Specialist

Cargill•Town of Lansing, NY

7d•$80,000 - $100,000•Onsite

About The Position

This position is in our Food Enterprise where we are committed to serving food manufacturers, food service customers, and retailers with a complete range of innovative ingredients and branded products. Our portfolio includes poultry, beef, egg, alternative protein, salt, oils, starches, sweeteners, cocoa and chocolate. Job Purpose and Impact The Professional, Network Engineering job implements, maintains and participates in designing network infrastructure to provide reliable and secure communication across the organization. With limited supervision, this job partners to configure and handle network devices such as routers, switches and firewalls, performs regular maintenance and upgrades, monitors network performance, troubleshoots moderately complex issues, and provides suggestion to optimize and automate systems for efficiency and scalability. This job also supports security measures to protect against threats and maintain compliance with industry standards.

Requirements

Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.
Ability to work in an underground mining environment.

Responsibilities

Implements and partners to design network solutions to meet organizational needs, including creating network diagrams and blueprints.
Sets up and configures various moderately complex network devices such as routers, switches, firewalls, virtual private networks and software defined networking to maintain optimal performance and security.
Performs moderately complex troubleshooting and diagnostics to resolve network issues, ensuring minimal downtime and maintaining network reliability.
Conducts routine maintenance and updates on network systems, including applying patches, service packs and security configurations.
Monitors network performance and applies various tools to maintain system availability and reliability, and suggests necessary adjustments to optimize performance.
Sustains network security by implementing appropriate measures such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems and encryption technologies.
Implements and partners to develop disaster recovery plans to ensure business continuity in case of network failures.
Implements and partners to develop automation and tools to streamline network operations, including configuration management, device provisioning and software updates.