Company Description
As a world market leader in crop protection, we help farmers to counter these threats and ensure enough safe, nutritious, affordable food for all – while minimizing the use of land and other agricultural inputs.
Syngenta Crop Protection keeps plants safe from planting to harvesting. From the moment a seed is planted through to harvest, crops need to be protected from weeds, insects and diseases as well as droughts and floods, heat and cold.
Syngenta Crop Protection is headquartered in Switzerland.
Qualifications
Master's degree in Information System Management, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field of study and four (4) years of experience in the position offered or four (4) years as a DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer or a closely related occupation.
Requires four (4) years of experience with: AWS infrastructure provisioning and management; Terraform and CloudFormation; designing AWS VPCs and VPC peering connections; Identity and Access Management (IAM) principles; AWS canary and blue/green deployments; managing SSL/TLS certificates via AWS ACM (Amazon Certificate Manager); Penetration test remediation process; analyzing third-party dependency vulnerabilities; establishing quality gates within development pipelines including npm audit; quality assurance practices and methodologies; testing availability, end-to-end functionalities, and APIs using Postman and Newman; performance testing with JMeter and Postman; QA in agricultural applications; automating web application testing using Qualys for vulnerability and cybersecurity assessment; setting up and maintaining security and configuration management tools including Guard Duty, AWS Config, Security Hub, and Cloud Trail; using and developing with Python, Bash, PowerShell, and JavaScript; RDS (Postgres and MySQL) databases, extensions, and plugins; Aurora (Instance and Serverless) using Postgres and MySQL; change management solutions for SQL using Liquibase; operating and maintaining container environments using Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, and EKS; network designs and systems including VPNs and Peering; network protocols for managing NACLs, security groups, and firewall technologies; CI/CD pipelines including Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS CodePipeline; Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and CloudWatch; Power BI; Incident Management using Opsgenie; Disaster Recovery planning; implementing best-practices for Backup and Recovery procedures for critical systems; deploying and configuring an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) using Backstage; FinOps methodologies including infrastructure cost optimization; SLI/SLO concepts, error budgets, and metrics availability; diagnosing and troubleshooting complex system issues; designing, architecting, and building software services within the agriculture industry; Farm Management software systems; Software technologies and tools relevant to agricultural applications.
Additional Information
What We Offer:
A culture that celebrates diversity & inclusion, promotes professional development, and strives for a work-life balance that supports the team members. offers flexible work options to support your work and personal needsFull Benefit Package (Medical, Dental & Vision) that starts your first day401k plan with company match, Profit Sharing & Retirement Savings ContributionPaid Vacation, 9 Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Education Assistance, Wellness Programs, Corporate Discounts, among other benefitsSyngenta 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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