Senior Platform Engineer

Job Purpose and Impact

Key Accountabilities

• Agile platform engineering for Power BI to build/maintain/improve Power BI implementation. 
• Application administration of Power BI / Tableau / KNIME including activities such as user access, content management, application licensing and software distribution.
• Build and maintain initial configurations for Windows and Linux server deployments. 
• Automate the administration/operations of the infrastructure and applications. 
• Create and maintain documentation of the infrastructure and applications. 
• Build and maintain monitoring/telemetry, log aggregation, and reporting/dashboarding on infrastructure performance, application performance, and user behaviors. 
• Build and maintain standard authentication and access patterns for integrations within Cargill's broader data/technology ecosystem. 
• Operationally support the infrastructure and applications including break/fix and service requests; 24x7 on-call support when needed; Tier 2+ community support. 
• Support the community in topics such as performance best practices, connectivity, and security.  Gather feedback and drive reliable platform services and features.
• Coordinate multi-disciplinary teams as required to troubleshoot and resolve issues outside the scope of SSA’s expertise. 
• Work closely with Cargill’s internal communities to gather feedback and drive reliable platform services and features. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in experience 

• Proven experience with one or more of the following areas: 

• Power BI Administration 

• Fabric Administration 

• Application administration and Windows and Linux systems administration 

• Hybrid infrastructure administration and maintenance 

• Enterprise networking and routing, including interface config, DNS, proxies, firewalls 

• Experience with cloud-based 'infrastructure as a service platforms': AWS, Google Compute Engine, Azure, or OpenStack 

• DevOps practices such as CI/CD (Jenkins CI, Drone, Github, and Artifactory), Configuration Management and Automation (Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible, and Terraform)  

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS 

• Experience configuring and maintaining Power BI in a large production environment 

• Microsoft certification in Power BI and/or Fabric 

• Experience with engineering globally distributed business applications with demonstrated ability to optimize for resiliency and latency 

• Experience with infrastructure automation, infrastructure as code, automated application deployment, monitoring/telemetry, logging, reporting/dashboarding 

• Experience with deployment and administration of analytics platform components such as Power BI Cloud Service; Power BI Premium; Power BI Gateway; Power BI Embedded; Power BI Mobile; KNIME Server. 

• Experience with cloud-based 'infrastructure as a service platforms': AWS, Google Compute Engine, Azure, or OpenStack 

• Experience with development using GitHub 

• Experience scripting with Bash, Python, and/or PowerShell 

• Experience with package management and patching strategy and tooling 

• Experience with TLS including certificate management and troubleshooting 

• Experience with the Agile mindset  

• Experience working in virtual teams across multiple time zones with multiple cultures