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THE VALUE YOU’LL BRING:
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Are you an Information Technology professional looking for a fast-paced, challenging and transformational environment, where you can make a difference? Smithfield Foods, one of the country’s top consumer packaged goods companies, is looking for you! Our Information Technology team is searching for focused and driven candidates who are excited about communicating new ideas and delivering first-class technical solutions to meet the demands of a growing business. We foster a culture that values everyone's creativity, our environment and the communities in which we live.
The Senior 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.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
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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…