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Platform Engineer

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Job ID 321525 Date posted 03/05/2026 Location : Atlanta, Georgia Category  DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND DATA (DT&D) Job Status  Salaried Full Time

Cargill is committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. Sitting at the heart of the supply chain, we partner with farmers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. 
Our 155,000 team members innovate with purpose, providing customers with life’s essentials so businesses can grow, communities prosper, and consumers live well. With over 160 years of experience as a family company, we look ahead while remaining true to our values. We put people first. We reach higher. We do the right thing—today and for generations to come.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Professional, Platform Engineering role partners in designing, implementing, and operating cloud infrastructure that enables enterprise application migration to AWS at scale. This role works within a global infrastructure team to support secure, reliable, and highly available cloud environments across multiple AWS accounts and regions.The position focuses on building and operating foundational AWS services including networking, identity, automation, observability, and fleet management systems. The engineer will troubleshoot cross-layer infrastructure issues, support production migrations, and help automate operational processes to improve reliability and developer experience.This role offers exposure to enterprise-scale cloud migration, hybrid connectivity, and operational platform engineering in a highly collaborative, global team environment.

Key Accountabilities

  • SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: Partners to design and develop high quality software solutions by writing clean, maintainable and efficient codes.
  • AUTOMATION: Applies internal software deployment platform, continuous integration or continuous delivery pipeline and twelve factor development methodology to automate the deployment process, ensuring smooth and reliable releases.
  • COLLABORATION: Partners with cross functional team of product managers, designers and other engineers to gather moderately complex requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
  • TESTING & DEBUGGING: Writes and maintains moderately complex unit tests and integration tests, and performs debugging to maintain the quality and performance of the software, applying test driven development as needed.
  • CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Identifies and suggests options for improving the software development and deployment processes, and implements the approved standards to improve efficiency and reliability.
  • DOCUMENTATION: Drafts and maintains comprehensive documentation for moderately complex software applications, deployment processes and system configurations.
  • TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Provides technical support and troubleshooting for moderately complex issues with deployed applications to ensure minimal downtime and fast resolution.

Qualifications

  • Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.
  • 2+ years of hands-on experience working with AWS infrastructure in a multi-account environment.
  • Experience designing, modifying, or troubleshooting AWS VPC networking (subnets, route tables, security groups, NAT gateways). 
  • Experience diagnosing and resolving production connectivity issues across application, OS, and network layers. 
  • Experience working with Linux-based systems in cloud environments. 
  • Exposure to Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation). 
  • Familiarity with IAM roles and permissions in AWS. 

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS

  • AWS (VPC, IAM, Route53, EC2)
  • Terraform (or CloudFormation)
  • Linux
  • AWS Systems Manager
  • Datadog (or similar observability platform)

Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet.

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