IT Server and Cloud Computing Engineer

November 7, 2024

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Smithfield Foods

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Smithfield Foods is a leading global food company and the world's largest pork processor and hog producer. The company offers high-quality meat products under a variety of popular brand names, including Smithfield, Eckrich, Nathan’s Famous, and Carando. Smithfield Foods is renowned for its innovative approaches, combining tradition with technology, to drive the future of food. The company is committed to sustainability, supporting communities, and producing safe, affordable, and high-quality food products. In addition to its core operations, Smithfield Foods actively engages in community support endeavors, such as addressing food insecurity and supporting veterans.

Bacon • BBQ • Breakfast Sausage • Smoked Sausage • Dry Sausage

10,000+ employees

Founded 1936

🌾 Agriculture

📋 Description

• Responsible for the management and maintenance of company-wide deployment of cloud and server technology and standards. • Collaborate with other IT teams and vendors to design and implement technical solutions. • Provide technical expertise and participate on implementation teams deploying new systems and operational processes in accordance with strategic business initiatives and approved projects. • Assist in the development of detailed implementation and contingency plans. • Continuously improve current state by employing performance tuning activities while monitoring, and troubleshoot problems that may arise. • Provides technical expertise and server administration and support for daily operations for both on-premise and cloud systems. • Analyze and evaluate existing or proposed systems and solutions. • Leverage relationships with external service providers to achieve results driving operational excellence. • Participate in the research and evaluation of new enterprise technologies, processes, upgrades to platform infrastructure solutions and enhancements. • Create and maintain documentation of compute services design and specifications for engineer reference and training fellow team members.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited four-year college or university and 5+ years of relevant experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience, required. • Established technical knowledge and 4+ years of hands on experience in either Windows or Linux Server administration, both a plus (Red Hat Linux a plus) • Technical understanding of hyperconverged solutions • Technical knowledge or hands on experience with Active Directory, ADFS, SCCM, VMWare, Cisco UCS, Veeam, and Red Hat Satellite Server • Experience working with multi cloud enterprises environments and understanding of capabilities and service cost structures of major providers (Azure and AWS Plus) • Able to find root causes of problems, quickly determine efficient solutions, anticipate risks and mitigate in the moment • Ability to analyze, translate, and define business requirements into technical solutions • Knowledge of orchestration tools to automate processes and services • Knowledge of operational characteristics of infrastructure services, systems, hardware and software • Ability to adapt to changing technologies and learn functionality of new equipment and systems • Work independently in the absence of supervision • Self-motivated, analytical, and possessing excellent problem-solving and follow-through skills • Knowledge of principles, methods and techniques used in the installation, troubleshooting and maintenance of server and cloud infrastructure and application impacts and dependencies • Excellent organizational, technical, and business communication skills • Ability to work well with others in fast paced, dynamic environment. • Ability to be respectful, approachable and team oriented while building strong working relationships and a positive work environment.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive Pay • Annual Bonus Earning Potential • Comprehensive Health Insurance, Retirement Benefits and More • Education benefit available to full and part time Smithfield team members on their first day of employment. • Opportunities for career growth, professional development, and tuition assistance.