
Nourishing the World Through Innovation and Partnership
Cargill stands as one of America's largest privately held companies, with 160,000 employees across 70 countries committed to nourishing the world in safe, responsible, and sustainable ways. Founded in 1865 and headquartered in Wayzata, Minnesota, this family-owned agricultural and food leader has built a 159-year legacy of innovation at the heart of global supply chains, connecting farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and families with daily essentials.
Diverse Products and Global Impact
Cargill's comprehensive portfolio spans food production, alternative proteins, agricultural solutions, renewable fuels, and industrial products. From wholesome proteins and edible oils to animal feed and skincare, the company's products touch billions of lives daily. With operations across more than 30 U.S. states and international locations, Cargill partners with producers and customers to source, create, and deliver products vital for living. The company's commitment to innovation includes AI-powered agricultural solutions and regenerative farming practices that advance environmental stewardship.
People First Culture and Values
At Cargill, corporate culture is built on three foundational values: putting people first, reaching higher, and doing the right thing. This family-company mentality means decisions prioritize long-term impact over short-term gains. Employees benefit from working with a stable, globally-respected organization that balances scale with local engagement, offering diverse career paths across multiple industries and functions. The company's 3.9 Glassdoor rating reflects a workplace where sustainability is embedded in purpose and employees feel valued.
Comprehensive Benefits and Career Development
- Competitive compensation with performance-based opportunities
- Complete health benefits including medical, dental, vision, and prescription coverage
- 401(k) with company matching contributions and flexible spending accounts
- Tuition reimbursement and professional development programs
- Employee assistance programs and wellness incentives
- Paid vacation, holidays, and comprehensive leave policies
- Leadership development and advancement opportunities across global operations
Why Join Cargill
Cargill offers more than employment-it's an opportunity to reach your higher purpose. Work alongside colleagues who are passionate about sustainability, innovation, and making a real difference in communities worldwide. Whether in production, maintenance, operations, or specialized roles, you'll contribute to essential products that improve lives globally while growing your career with a company that values integrity and long-term thinking.
Mission
To nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way.
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Jobs for Cargill in United States
30303 Atlanta, GA
67504 Hutchinson, KS
44070 North Olmsted, OH
















Senior Network Engineer
Description
Cargill's size and scale allows us to make a positive impact in the world. Our purpose is to nourish the world in a safe, responsible and sustainable way. We are a family company providing food, ingredients, agricultural solutions and industrial products that are vital for living. We connect farmers with markets so they can prosper. We connect customers with ingredients so they can make meals people love. And we connect families with daily essentials - from eggs to edible oils, salt to skincare, feed to alternative fuel. Our 160,000 colleagues, operating in 70 countries, make essential products that touch billions of lives each day. Join us and reach your higher purpose at Cargill.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Senior Network Engineer will design transformation, deployment, automation, operation, and own Cargill's software defined network infrastructure with an initial focus on migration of legacy networking infrastructure to modern software defined networking infrastructure. In this role you will provide thought leadership and actively engage in a network transformation project to migrate legacy physical networking infrastructure to Modern software defined networking infrastructure to architect, build, secure, and maintain.
Key Accountabilities
- Provide technical leadership and influence the use of software development and infrastructure as code practices to design, build and support software defined network capabilities.
- Provide expert leadership across network teams to resolve complex problems and remove roadblocks.
- Participate in the engineering community by being a coach and mentor to engineers, share new technical trends and develop modern skills and engineering best practices across Cargill.
Qualifications
- Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience.
- 4+ years experience in the field of Networking (Routing, Switching and SD WAN) having good understanding of Software Defined Networks. The person should have experience on Versa & Cisco products with ability to design, implement and troubleshooting skills.
Preferred
- 8 years of experience in network engineering in a large scale, distributed IT team
- Around 5 years of experience in the design and implementation of wireless technologies
- Expert level knowledge on WAN technologies and protocols, not limited to BGP, OSPF, QoS, CoS, ACLs, NAT/CGNAT, MPLS, VPNs & IPSec.
- Experience across various areas of network, including switching, routing, software and traditional WAN, firewall, load-balancing, networking protocols, DNS, DHCP, network observability.
- At least 8 years' experience in maintaining and managing networks running OSPF and BGP routing protocols with QoS implementations. CCIE SP or Enterprise certification is preferred.
- Ability to develop low-level design (LLD) for proposed network architecture.
- Knowledge of automation and scripting of network configurations with know-how of python, bash, docker is preferred. Working experience in source code management tools like GitHub.
- Experience working with agile teams, leveraging modern engineering tools and practices to manage team backlog, planned work, and issue tracking
- Experience providing technical leadership across multiple engineering teams
Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.

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