Sr. Platform Engineer - Cloud
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 10, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 10, 2026. Cargill scores A on the Alion truth index.
Cargill is committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. Sitting at the heart of the supply chain, we partner with farmers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living.
Our 155,000 team members innovate with purpose, providing customers with life’s essentials so businesses can grow, communities prosper, and consumers live well. With over 160 years of experience as a family company, we look ahead while remaining true to our values. We put people first. We reach higher. We do the right thing-today and for generations to come.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer will help build the foundation for the company's modern business applications. In this role, you will apply your in-depth knowledge of modern infrastructure and cloud software engineering practices to build, secure, and maintain the core capabilities used by our data and application teams to drive business value. You will also coach and mentor junior engineers to deliver highly scalable and resilient systems using infrastructure as code across our data centers and cloud environments.
Key Accountabilities
- SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: Designs and develops high quality software solutions by writing clean, maintainable and efficient codes.
- AUTOMATION: Leads 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: Partners with cross functional team of product managers, designers and other engineers to gather complex requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
- TESTING & DEBUGGING: Writes and maintains 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: Recommends options for improving the software development and deployment processes, and implements the approved standards to improve efficiency and reliability.
- DOCUMENTATION: Creates and maintains comprehensive documentation for complex software applications, deployment processes and system configurations.
- TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Provides technical support and troubleshooting for complex issues with deployed applications to ensure minimal downtime and fast resolution.
Qualifications
- Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience.
- Experience with AWS networking tools (Cloud WAN, Direct connect, transit gateway, etc.)
- Experience with AWS cloud technologies, including EC2, security groups, Auto Scaling Groups (ASG), S3, and IAM.
- Experience with managing Windows workloads in AWS.
- Experience with Cloud Provider AWS. Moderate experience with container technologies (Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, Swarm, Docker, etc.) and a
- Strong background in scripting and programming, including - Terraform, Golang or Python, PowerShell
Additional Information
- The business will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position
- This position requires onsite (hybrid) presence at our Atlanta, GA Tech Hub
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.
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