Who are we, and what do we do?
Corteva Agriscience creates the world's most recognized and premium agricultural solutions to address the greatest challenges in agriculture. With a focus on technology, Corteva Agriscience creates seed and crop protection products that increase productivity and profit for farmers while reducing risks to their business. Every day our digital tools deliver insights our global partners need to thrive now and into the future. 
 
As the world's first dedicated agriculture start-up, we're building a culture that stays curious, thinks differently, acts boldly and takes a stand on what's right for our customers, our co-workers, our partners and our planet. We know we've got big challenges to solve - we hope you'll be part of the solution. Whether you are in the lab or on the farm, teaching classes or crafting code - we need bold thinkers and fearless doers to bring their best to the job at hand. Every role at Corteva Agriscience includes an opportunity to grow what matters.

Corteva Agriscience is looking for an innovative, energetic and transformational Platform Engineering Lead.

Join a dynamic, forward-thinking team as our Platform Engineering Lead, shaping the future of our global hybrid-cloud infrastructure. You will set and execute the strategic vision for foundational tools, infrastructure, and processes across your portfolio, emphasizing infrastructure-as-software, product management, automation, resiliency, security, cost efficiency, and streamlined developer experiences. Reporting to the Infrastructure and Operations Compute & Managed Platforms Leader, you'll lead a talented global team responsible for designing, implementing, and managing virtualization (VMWare and Nutanix) and Kubernetes platforms.

The ideal candidate is an innovative technical leader who approaches infrastructure management as a software engineering discipline. You have a proven track record in platform strategy, deployment, operations, automation, software-defined infrastructure, API-driven architectures, and talent development within large-scale global organizations. You thrive in fast-paced, collaborative environments, adeptly managing ambiguity while driving operational excellence, innovation, and fostering growth within your team.

Primary Responsibilities - How will you help us Grow!

• Strategic Leadership: Define and drive the technical vision, strategy, and roadmap for virtualization and Kubernetes platforms.
• Virtualization & Container Platforms: Lead the architecture, deployment, and continuous improvement of foundational technologies supporting hybrid multi-cloud environments. Apply industry best practices for security, cost optimization, automation, self-service, performance, and monitoring.
• Infrastructure as Software: Leverage software engineering practices to solve infrastructure challenges, developing infrastructure APIs, standardized automations, reusable platform services, and self-service capabilities to accelerate application delivery and business value.
• Developer Experience (DevEx): Design platforms and workflows with a strong focus on developer experience, reducing friction and enabling intuitive self-service interactions.
• Incident Management: Act as the primary escalation point, proactively managing incidents, leading root-cause analysis, and implementing preventative measures to enhance reliability.
• Security & Compliance: Proactively enhance security posture and compliance, ensuring adherence to FDA, SOX, GDPR, and other relevant standards and regulations. Actively participate in audits and compliance reviews.
• Documentation & Observability: Ensure comprehensive documentation and observability of systems, processes, and configurations, emphasizing transparency, metrics-driven decision making, logging, and tracing.
• Performance & Reliability: Continuously identify opportunities for enhancing system performance, availability, scalability, and resiliency.
• Vendor & Supplier Management: Establish and nurture strategic relationships with key product vendors and suppliers.
• Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity: Develop and regularly test robust disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Foster strong partnerships across IT, collaborating closely with Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Application Development, ERP, Enterprise Architecture, and Portfolio Management teams.
• Talent Leadership: Mentor, coach, and develop a diverse global team of employees and contractors, cultivating a high-performance, innovative culture.
• Operational Excellence & Innovation: Embed operational excellence and innovation practices into daily operations, continuously evaluating emerging technologies and methods to drive improvement.

Experience and Education - What you'll bring to the table!

• Bachelor degree of Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum 3 years in a senior or lead Platform Engineering role.
• Proven expertise in software engineering practices, infrastructure as code, and modern development methodologies (Agile, DevOps, GitOps).
• Deep experience with containerization technologies and Kubernetes orchestration.
• Strong proficiency in virtualization technologies enabling private cloud solutions (VMware, Nutanix).
• Strong experience modernizing and migrating application workloads to containerized deployments, enabling faster software delivery, increased scalability, and improved resource efficiency.
• Experience across multiple cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and associated tools (GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins).
• Demonstrated ability to design scalable, secure, reliable systems and intuitive self-service workflows.
• Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills, effectively managing multiple priorities.

Other Preferred Qualifications

• Relevant certifications (Nutanix, VMware, Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Experience operating within Infrastructure as Product (IaP) models.
• Background in internal consulting, strategic planning, or customer experience.
• Proven track record fostering collaborative team environments.
• Experience applying chaos engineering, observability practices, and continuous delivery approaches to infrastructure solutions.

Benefits - How We'll Support You:

• Numerous development opportunities offered to build your skills
• Be part of a company with a higher purpose and contribute to making the world a better place
• Health benefits for you and your family on your first day of employment
• Four weeks of paid time off and two weeks of well-being pay per year, plus paid holidays
• Excellent parental leave which includes a minimum of 16 weeks for mother and father
• Future planning with our competitive retirement savings plan and tuition reimbursement program

• Learn more about our total rewards package here - Corteva Benefits

• Check out life at Corteva! www.linkedin.com/company/corteva/life

Are you a good match? Apply today! We seek applicants from all backgrounds to ensure we get the best, most creative talent on our team.

Corteva Agriscience is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to embracing our differences to enrich lives, advance innovation, and boost company performance. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, military or veteran status, pregnancy related conditions (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), disability or any other protected status in accordance with federal, state, or local laws.

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