Johnsonville, LLC

IT Platform Systems Engineer

Johnsonville Location:Global Headquarters

As a member of our information technology (IT) team, you?ll apply cutting-edge resources to help Johnsonville become even more productive and efficient, reduce costs and improve our capacity and profitability. You?ll use and continually develop both your technical expertise and business acumen to maintain Johnsonville?s innovative industry leadership.

Position Overview

The IT Platform Solutions Engineer is responsible for configuring and maintaining the organization's IT platforms and systems. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and optimize IT infrastructure and ensure seamless operation. The IT Platform Solutions Engineer plays a critical role in supporting and enhancing the reliability, performance, and security of IT platforms.

Responsibilities

Configure, deploy, and maintain IT platforms, coordinating with requisite Cloud Server Administrators and Platform Solutions Architects advising on servers, storage, networking, and virtualization needs
Implement and optimize hardware and software configurations to meet performance and scalability requirements
Define, implement, and continuously improve observability solutions (metrics, logs, traces, health checks, alerts) to proactively monitor platform health and ensure system stability
Monitor platform performance and conduct regular analysis to identify, troubleshoot, and remediate bottlenecks and inefficiencies
Partner with security teams to embed security as a reliability concern, implementing secure-by-design and defense-in-depth practices across platforms
Collaborate with the security team to identify and mitigate potential vulnerabilities and risks
Engineer automation to eliminate manual toil, including platform provisioning, configuration, remediation, and routine operational tasks
Implement and maintain configuration management and desired-state tooling to ensure consistency, repeatability, and compliance across environments
Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for platform configurations, processes, and procedures
Respond to and resolve platform-related issues, collaborating with support teams and vendors as necessary.
Participate in on-call rotation to provide timely support for critical incidents.

Education

A background in Computer Science, Engineering, or related Discipline. Bachelors Degree or equivalent desirable

Experience

IT experience: Minimum 5 years direct experience working with platform solutions, in a role involving configuration, troubleshooting, maintenance, monitoring and deployment
Preferred 3+ years of direct experience supporting vendor platform technologies relevant for the position
Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure)
Knowledge of containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

Skills

Demonstrated expertise for the vendor software platforms to be managed (i.e. SAP, Jitterbit, o9)
Proficiency in scripting and automation tools (e.g., PowerShell, Bash, Ansible)
Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
Growth mindset and a willingness to learn new skills, technologies, and frameworks
Working knowledge of DevOps and CI/CD principles and practices

Other Requirements

Willingness to work hours outside of normal hours as needed
Ability to travel
On-call rotation (7x24) with other team members

Benefits and Compensation

Members have potential for a monthly bonus and 401k with a company match. Members also have access to terrific benefits including affordable medical, dental and vision coverage; flexible spending accounts; disability and life insurance; and fertility and adoption assistance. Johnsonville also offers competitive paid time off, including paid parental time off, as well as access to the 24/7 onsite fitness center, and onsite medical clinic! Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.

Applicants must be eligible to work in the country where this job is located, without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.

About our Company

Since 1945, our family-owned band of sausage-makers has invented better ways to make, eat and prepare crave-able sausage. Today, we are 4,000+ Members strong. We sell our famous sausage in all 50 United States and more than 40 countries. We have a culture built on the idea that if we make developing your talents our top priority, great business results will follow naturally. We call it The Johnsonville Way. It has been our secret sauce for decades, and we hope you get to experience it for yourself!

Johnsonville is an equal opportunity employer, including Vet/Disability.

We embrace the principles of Equal Opportunity Employment and do not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic, including protected veteran and disability status.

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The Johnsonville Way

Our culture, called theJohnsonville Way, guides the way we behave, operate and treat one another. We truly believe that here at Johnsonville, we have a moral responsibility to create and maintain an environment that requires each Member to fully develop their God-given talents and help others to do the same. We achieve this by living theJohnsonville Way.

Our owner is famous for saying that, "Other companies use their people to build a business, but at Johnsonville, we use the business to build our people." We are proud to offer endless opportunities for continued learning and growth here at Johnsonville.

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