Senior IT Engineer - Network & Telecommunications

at Smithfield in Chicago, Illinois, United States

Job Description

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A great job-and a great future-awaits you at Smithfield Foods. We're an $18 billion U.S. food company with nearly 60,000 employees worldwide. We're looking for motivated people who want to join our team and grow lasting and meaningful careers with us. Join our family today. Apply Now!

Your Opportunity
Our team members receive industry-competitive salaries and are eligible for great benefits packages:
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.
Open to moving? We will help! Ask about our Relocation Assistance packages!
In addition, we offer opportunities for career growth, professional development, and tuition assistance.

The Sr. IT Engineer Network and Telecommunications will be involved in network and telecommunications operations, resolving complex issues, design and build of innovative solutions for strategic projects, mentoring and training of team members, to bring value. Responsible for the setting, managing, and maintaining of company-wide deployment of network and telecommunications standards, orchestration of build - management - service processes, administration and monitoring capabilities. This position will collaborate with other IT teams, business units, and vendors to design and implement technical solutions that align to the Infrastructure strategy, management and governance of business processes and operations with the implementation of infrastructure services.

Core Responsibilities

Provide technical expertise and leadership on implementation teams deploying new systems and operational processes in accordance with strategic business initiatives and approved projects

Provide technical expertise and leadership in the development of detailed implementation and contingency plans

Continuously improve current state by employing performance tuning activities while monitoring, and troubleshoot and resolving complex problems that may arise

Provides technical leadership and advanced network and telecommunications administration and support for daily operations for both on-premise and cloud services

Analyze, evaluate, and recommend options on existing or proposed network and telecommunications technologies and solutions to ensure compliance with security, performance, reliability and scalability

Leverage relationships with external service providers to achieve results driving operational excellence

Conducts research and evaluation of new enterprise technologies, processes, upgrades to platform infrastructure solutions and enhancements to determine capabilities that meet performance and budgetary requirements

Participate in the strategy, management and governance of IT process and operations with the implementation of infrastructure services; design solutions that meet existing and future requirements for functionality and integration with existing components

Employ exceptional problem-solving skills, ability to see troublesome trends to solve issues before they affect business productivity

Understand current, organic growth, and new project requirements for capacity and performance planning to forecasting system needs and communicate this information to I&O leadership for financial planning

Provide mentorship and training for fellow team members to advance over group skills and capabilities; educate teams on the implementation of new network and telecommunication services and provide associated training as required

Drive and own the creation and maintenance of documentation of network and telecommunication services design and specifications for engineer reference and training fellow team members

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. May perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions.

Bachelor's Degree from an... For full info follow application link.

Smithfield is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action (EEO/AA) Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with disability, or any other protected group status or non-job related characteristic as directed by law.