Company Description

Syngenta is a global leader in agriculture; rooted in science and dedicated to bringing plant potential to life. Each of our 30,000 employees in more than 90 countries work together to solve one of humanity’s most pressing challenges: growing more food with fewer resources. A diverse workforce and an inclusive workplace environment are enablers of our ambition to be the most collaborative and trusted team in agriculture.
Our employees reflect the diversity of our customers, the markets where we operate and the communities which we serve. No matter what your position, you will have a vital role in safely feeding the world and taking care of our planet. Join us and help shape the future of agriculture.

Job Description

Syngenta is hiring a Senior Cloud Engineer/Administrator with the following responsibilities:

• Architecting, designing, securing, and implementing Cloud native technologies
• Research, design, secure, and implement cloud services within research cloud accounts
• Define and communicate cloud standards for DevOps teams
• Identify and architect automation opportunities
• Perform daily monitoring and operations, verifying integrity and availability of cloud services and key processes
• Installation and configuration of monitoring and security software on EC2
• Assure adherence to security policies in cloud services and configurations
• Create and maintain knowledge base documentation such runbooks, onboarding and support processes, development standards and best practices, and account inventory
• Design and implement AWS Solutions by utilizing various AWS services to meet business requirements
• Develop and maintain disaster recovery technologies and procedures
• Architect, design, and implement CI/CD for the organization
• Re-architect applications from traditional server-based architecture to AWS Docker container-based services and microservice architecture
• Develop reusable, efficient, and scalable python modules to automate manual tasks in AWS infrastructure
• Partner with customers to architect solutions, share standards and best practices, implement serverless applications and integrations with third party products and services
• Troubleshoot and resolve the root cause of AWS & Azure platform incidents
• Work closely with solution architects and data engineers to prototype and implement newly launched AWS services to solve problems

Qualifications

This position requires a Master's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field of study and three (3) years related work experience as a Software Developer, IAM Engineer, or a closely related occupation.

Requires three (3) years of experience with:

• Cloud, on-prem, and agricultural research site Compute including Python and Java software development
• Multi-region integration including AWS China
• SaaS integration with Benchling
• AD and DNS
• Designing, optimizing, and deploying infrastructure into AWS and Azure cloud platform
• API traffic management, authentication, authorization, monitoring, backup, patching, and version management
• Troubleshooting network related issues across layers 3 through 7
• Engineering practices across the SDLC
• Developing GraphQL and REST APIs, and Microservice architecture
• Writing modular code
• Centralized source control, CI/CD, and standard code reviews
• IaC methodologies using AWS Cloud Formation
• AWS Services including IAM, SCP, Cognito, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Lambda, API Gateway, Event Bridge, EC2, EMR, Redshift, Service Catalog, S3, Guard duty, Security Hub, IoT*, ACM, ECS, EKS, Fargate, SSM, Load Balancers, Security Groups, NACL, WAF, Route Tables, Route 53, Transit Gateway, VPC, Firewalls, CloudFormation, CDK, SQS, SNS, RDS, Redis, Neptune, Glue, Athena, OpenSearch, Cloudfront, Sagemaker, Appsync, Config, Code*, DynamoDB, Kinesis, TimeStream, Backup, Snowball, EFS, and FsX.

Requires two (2) years of experience with:

• Terraform, and AWS CDK. Requires one (1) year of experience with: SaaS integration with Snowflake
• Administering Denodo and Snowflake. Requires AWS Certification: Solutions Architect. Will accept experience gained before, during or after Master’s program. Must pass a background check and drug test before beginning employment.

Additional Information

• Full Benefit Package (Medical, Dental & Vision) that starts the same day you do
• 401k plan with company match, Profit Sharing & Retirement Savings Contribution
• Paid Vacation, 9 Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Education Assistance, Wellness Programs, Corporate Discounts among others
• A culture that promotes work/life balance, celebrates diversity, and offers numerous family-oriented events throughout the year

Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
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