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We serve agriculture customers and consumers across the United States and around the world. Most of our employees are in the United States, but today we have employees in 19 countries. At CHS, we are creating connections to empower agriculture.\nSummary\nCHS has an exciting opportunity within the Information Technology group. We are seeking an expert level Network Engineer to provide advanced technical leadership across the enterprise core network, cloud connectivity, and WAN in a complex, multi-site environment. This role goes beyond day-to-day operational support. It focuses on establishing engineering standards, architecture patterns, and repeatable practices that strengthen network reliability and reduce dependency on any single individual. This expert Network Engineer partners with peer technical leaders and cross-functional IT teams to raise the engineering bar, improve prioritization, and make tradeoffs visible. The goal is a secure, scalable, and highly available network for CHS.\n To be considered for this position, qualified candidates must currently reside in the Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN metro area to work a hybrid structure (3+ days per week) in the corporate office located in Inver Grove Heights, MN.\nResponsibilities\nTechnical Leadership and Engineering Judgment\nServe as a hands-on technical leader who labs, proves, automates, and implements complex network solutions with strong supporting design documentation.\nApply strong engineering judgment to resolve ambiguity and make sound technical recommendations on priorities, standards, and tradeoffs.\nAssist the team and leadership to focus on what matters most by negotiating scope and priorities and making tradeoffs visible.\nCommunicate constructively when work should be deferred or sequenced, including what would need to change to take it on.\nIdentify systemic operational issues, such as recurring manual processes, and drive improvements through standards, automation and process improvements.\nProvide credible, informed feedback to vendors when product limitations affect enterprise outcomes.\nNetwork Reliability and Technical Support\nProvide expert-level engineering and troubleshooting support for the Cisco core network, routing, switching, and enterprise WAN, including SD-WAN.\nSupport cloud networking in AWS and Azure, including connectivity patterns and standards. \nApply network automation skills (Python, APIs, Infrastructure as Code) and hold production automation to a high quality bar.\nBuild working depth in Cisco SD-WAN; cross-train and document to provide depth of knowledge across the team.\nPartner with the security, cloud, and operational technology teams on standards and designs.\nIncident Response and Service Restoration\nParticipate in an on-call rotation approximately once every seven weeks.\nServe as a technical escalation point for high-severity network incidents, providing hands-on troubleshooting, remediation, and validation.\nDeliver timely, accurate technical updates during active incidents.\nLead post-incident reviews and drive root-cause and corrective actions into standards, documentation, and automation.\nPartner with the security, cloud, and operational technology teams on incidents and problems.\nStandards, Architecture and Continuous Improvement\nDevelop and champion network engineering standards, architecture patterns, and WAN and core design standards that reduce reliance on individual subject-matter experts. \nReview significant designs and changes for alignment with standards, and give clear, constructive recommendations to the team and leadership.\nCreate and maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and knowledge articles that support long-term operational readiness.\nDrive adoption of repeatable engineering processes that reduce manual work and strengthen institutional knowledge.\nOperate within ITIL-aligned Incident, Request, Change, and Problem Management processes, using ServiceNow or similar ITSM tools to document incidents, requests, root causes, and corrective actions.\nPartner with enterprise architecture to keep designs aligned with strategic direction.\nCommunication, Collaboration and Engineering Standards\nRaise team capability through standards, architecture patterns, documentation, and operational readiness.\nBuild trust with peers, architects, and operations teams by listening to other viewpoints and adapting positions when given new information.\nEngage in constructive dialog with IT leadership and peer technologists to provide well-reasoned recommendations that align with organizational priorities.\nCommunicate difficult technical concepts in a way that keeps relationships and momentum intact.\nPromote and uphold a strong safety culture and follow all safety policies. \nMinimum Qualifications (required)\nBachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology Management, or a related field (or equivalent years of work experience, education and training)\n7+ years of enterprise network engineering experience, including demonstrated ownership of engineering standards, architecture patterns, and process improvement to include:Advanced, hands-on Cisco routing, switching, and core network engineering and troubleshooting\nAdvanced enterprise WAN routing and design experience, including BGP, OSPF, and underlay/overlay concepts\nAWS or Azure cloud networking experience\nWorking knowledge of network automation (Python, APIs, Infrastructure as Code), with the judgment to distinguish sound production automation from fragile automation\n\nAdditional Qualifications\n10+ years of enterprise network engineering experience, including demonstrated ownership of engineering standards, architecture patterns, and process improvement\nExperience leading technical resolution of major incidents\nDemonstrated ability to establish engineering standards and drive cross-team process improvement\nCollaborative, low-ego communication style, with the confidence to defend technical positions and the curiosity to learn from others\nAbility to negotiate and influence across teams without direct authority\nCCNP Enterprise (or legacy CCNP Routing & Switching), or equivalent demonstrated experience\nHands-on Cisco SD-WAN experience\nExperience with operational technology (OT) or industrial networking, including IT/OT segmentation and secure connectivity to plant or facility networks\nAzure networking experience and familiarity with cloud management platforms such as Aviatrix\nWorking familiarity with firewall and security architecture sufficient to partner with a dedicated firewall team (Palo Alto)\nExperience supporting major incidents or high-severity outage response\nExperience with ITIL-aligned service management frameworks and ServiceNow\nFamiliarity with SolarWinds Orion or similar network monitoring tools, and network packet capture analysis\nPre-employment screening is based on the job requirements and industry guidelines and may or may not be required for the position. If required, selected candidates must pass pre-employment screenings to include all or a combination of drug, criminal, motor vehicle check, physical requirements and FMSCA Clearinghouse.\nCHS offers a competitive total rewards package. Compensation includes base wage and, depending upon position, may include other earnings such as bonus, incentives and commissions. Actual pay offered will vary based on multiple factors which may include, without limitation, experience, education, training, specialized skills and certifications, minimum wage/salary requirements under local law.\nBenefits include medical, dental, vision, wellness programs, life insurance, health and dependent care spending accounts, paid time off, 401(k), pension, profit sharing, short- and long-term disability, tuition reimbursement and adoption assistance, subject to the eligibility requirements for each benefit plan.\nCHS is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disability.\nPlease note that any communication from a CHS recruiter would be sent using a chsinc.com email address. In addition, a CHS recruiter will not ask for confidential information over the phone or in an email, or request money from a candidate involved in an offer process. 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