Running with Sasquatch is more than just a clever marketing campaign. As a Jack Link’s team member, Running with Sasquatch means we roll up our buffalo plaid sleeves and do the hard work first. We don’t shy away from challenges. In fact, we push hard and take risks. True to our North Woods roots, we're a bunch of ordinary people who accomplish extraordinary things by driving results with innovation, creativity and a clear sense of urgency. Like our awesome protein products, we have an unwavering passion for quality, and you won’t find anything artificial here. What you see is what you get… authentic, humble and fun people who Run with Sasquatch!

Running with Sasquatch takes a team. We invite you to run with us, succeed with us, and celebrate with us. Most importantly, Feed Your Wild Side with us on our journey to be the dominant global leader of branded protein snacks!

Jack Link's Protein Snacks is a global leader in snacking and the No. 1 meat snack manufacturer worldwide. Still family-owned and operated with headquarters in Minong, Wisconsin, Jack Link’s also has a large corporate hub in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, and operates a total of 11 manufacturing and distribution facilities in four countries. Jack Link’s produces high-quality, great-tasting protein snacks that feed the wild sides of consumers around the world. Jack Link's Protein Snacks family of brands includes Jack Link's, Lorissa's Kitchen, World Kitchens Jerky, Bifi and Pepperami.

You will be part of a global network infrastructure team that provides the backbone in ensuring that high quality meat snacks are produced and distributed all over the world. In this role, you'll be developing and maintaining the network automation tools used to configure and manage data center, cloud, manufacturing, and campus networks that are available and running 24x7. Responsibilities include developing automated configurations, maintaining playbooks, leveraging network restful API for automation, fixing connectivity issues, and implementing security across our current and next generation platforms. If you are excited by a culture of automation, monitoring, and improvement for all engineering systems and can deliver exceptional quality in a dynamic, agile environment, we'd like to meet you.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL:

• Partner within IT and manufacturing to Design, build, and implement innovative software solutions for the automation of physical and cloud-based networks and infrastructure across the enterprise.
• Design, build and lead the implementation of network and infrastructure deployment projects through the use of automation.
• Ensure and enhance the security posture of networks and infrastructure by partnering with global security and adhering to policies and procedures
• Engineer and deploy solutions for route/switch, firewalls, WAN, WLAN, and cloud technologies.
• Design, build and maintain network configuration management tools, monitoring, automation tools, and workflows
• Find opportunities and implement solutions to improve availability, reliability, efficiency, performance, and overall service.
• Develop and maintain clear documentation of technical solutions and communicate plans to management
• Provide level 2 and level 3 support and participate in the on-call rotation.

REQUIRED SKILLS & ABILITIES:

• 3-5 years experience with network automation platforms and API’s (such as Terraform, Ansible, Netbox, Chef, Puppet)
• Expertise with one or more scripting languages (such as Python, etc.)
• Ability to break down a manual process into an automated workflow.
• 5+ years experience operating a network; in-depth knowledge of network topology, subnetting, routing, switching, data flows, etc.
• 3+ years experience with Azure network architecture and integration (Terraform, Ansible, etc)
• Expertise with LAN/WAN routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP)
• Expertise with TCP/IP networking, troubleshooting, and analysis and working knowledge of modern Cisco platforms/software/practices (e.g. Catalyst, Nexus)
• Working knowledge of modern Firewall platforms/software/practices (e.g., Palo Alto, Fortinet, ASA)

Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
Jack Link's is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

E-Verify
Jack Link's provides the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new Team Member’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. IMPORTANT: If the Government cannot confirm that you are authorized to work, we are required to provide you written instructions and an opportunity to contact SSA and/or DHS before taking adverse action against you, including terminating your employment. We do not use E-Verify to pre-screen job applicants or to re-verify current employees and may not limit or influence the choice of documents presented for use on the Form I-9. In order to determine whether Form I-9 documentation is valid, we use E-Verify’s photo screening tool to match the photograph appearing on some permanent resident and employment authorization cards with the official U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) photograph. If you believe that Jack Link’s has violated our responsibilities under this program or has discriminated against you during the verification process based upon your national origin or citizenship status, please call the Office of Special Counsel at 1-800-255-7688 (TDD: 1-800-237-2515).

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.