Specialist Monitoring & Automation

Role Title: Monitoring & Automation Specialist

Location(s) of role: various, including United States, Brazil, Netherlands, Singapore, and Switzerland

Fully remote, Hybrid, or Fully on-site: Hybrid

Bunge has an exciting opportunity available for a Monitoring & Automation Specialist. In this role you will be part of a global team working on challenging, meaningful projects impacting core business activities. Since 1818, Bunge has been connecting farmers to consumers to deliver essential food, feed, and fuel to the world. Looking to the future, our ambition is to continuously reinvent ourselves, leveraging data to be at the forefront of analytics, technology and talent to accomplish our purpose in a better, faster and simpler way. Bunge is committed to operating and thriving in the digital world – creating world class agile teams where teammates are empowered and encouraged to collaborate and test and learn to succeed.

At Bunge, people don’t just come here to work, they come here to grow – solving challenges that directly impact the world with a diverse team of thinkers and doers. Bunge offers a strong compensation and benefits package, generous paid time off program, flexible work arrangements, and opportunity to progress. Our hybrid work environment provides a balance of in-office and remote work. Most importantly, in all we do we live our values:

• Act as One Team by fostering inclusion, collaboration, and respect
• Drive for Excellence by being agile, innovative and efficient
• Do What's Right by acting safely, ethically, and sustainably

Overview: The Monitoring & Automation Specialist will be a critical technical leader within Bunge's Business Technology organization, driving the strategy, implementation, and optimization of advanced monitoring and automation solutions across our global IT landscape. This role requires using knowledge of Bunge’s business, structure, and strategy to develop innovative solutions that improve operational results and eliminate problems. The Specialist will build strong partnerships, appropriately influence to gain commitment, and contribute to fostering talent by coaching others in current or future roles. This individual will drive results through high standards, a keen focus on key priorities, strong organization, and by preparing others for technological changes. This position manages projects and processes independently, working with limited supervision, and provides leadership and guidance to other professionals and support staff, ensuring the adoption of best practices and strategic alignment.

Essential Functions: Main Accountabilities

• Lead the design, architecture, and implementation of sophisticated monitoring solutions for enterprise-level applications, infrastructure, and cloud services to ensure proactive identification of performance degradation and availability issues.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance automation frameworks and tools, leveraging scripting and orchestration platforms to significantly reduce manual intervention, improve efficiency, and ensure consistency in IT operations.
• Manage small to medium projects of moderate to significant complexity related to monitoring and automation initiatives, taking full ownership from conception through delivery and post-implementation review.
• Conduct in-depth analysis of system performance data, logs, and metrics to identify root causes of complex problems, anticipate future needs, and recommend strategic improvements to system architecture and operational processes.
• Contribute significantly to process improvements within the Business Technology department, leveraging expertise in monitoring and automation to refine existing procedures and establish new best practices.
• Provide expert-level guidance, mentorship, and technical leadership to less experienced team members and other IT professionals on monitoring tools, automation techniques, and operational excellence.
• Collaborate extensively with cross-functional teams, including Development, Operations, Security, and Business units, to integrate monitoring and automation into the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC) and operational workflows.
• Ensure the monitoring and automation infrastructure adheres to security standards, compliance requirements, and corporate governance policies, contributing to audit readiness and risk mitigation.

Impact/Dimensions: This role significantly impacts the stability, efficiency, and reliability of Bunge's IT operations globally by applying in-depth knowledge of monitoring and automation disciplines and a solid understanding of related IT domains. The Specialist adapts departmental plans, actively recommends best practices, and proposes solutions that enhance operational excellence. Their contributions directly lead to improved system uptime, reduced operational costs through automation, and faster problem resolution, all of which are critical for supporting Bunge’s global business continuity.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):

• Percentage reduction in mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to resolve (MTTR) critical incidents.
• Quantifiable efficiency gains through automation of operational tasks and processes.
• Coverage and accuracy of monitoring for critical applications and infrastructure.
• Successful delivery of assigned monitoring and automation projects within scope, budget, and timeline.
• Effectiveness of proposed and implemented process improvements.

Major Opportunities and Decisions: This position requires performing a variety of complex tasks, often necessitating extensive analysis to understand underlying issues and contributing to the delivery of solutions where precedent may not exist. The Specialist will apply best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to significantly improve products, services, or processes related to monitoring and automation. Decisions often involve selecting strategic tools, designing complex automation workflows, and architectural choices that impact the overall operational efficiency and resilience of Bunge’s IT landscape.

Management/Leadership: This role manages projects and processes independently with limited supervision, allowing for the choice of tactics to reach established goals. The Specialist provides leadership and direction to professionals and/or support staff, guiding their daily activities and fostering their technical development in monitoring and automation.

Key Relationships, Stakeholders & Interfaces (External & Internal):

• Internal: Infrastructure and Operations teams, Application Development teams, Information Security, Enterprise Architecture, Service Desk, Project Management Office, and various IT and business unit stakeholders.
• External: Technology vendors, consulting partners, industry experts, and communities of practice for monitoring and automation.

Knowledge and Technical Competencies:

• Expert-level knowledge of enterprise monitoring platforms (e.g., Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch).
• Deep proficiency in scripting and programming languages for automation (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Go, JavaScript).
• Extensive experience with automation and orchestration tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD).
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their native monitoring/automation services.
• Advanced knowledge of IT infrastructure (servers, networks, storage, virtualization) and application architectures.
• Familiarity with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and microservices monitoring.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and diagnostic skills, with the ability to perform root cause analysis for complex technical issues.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences and influence technical decisions.

Minimum Requirements, Education/Experience: Typically a Bachelor's degree (a Master's degree may be preferred) with 11-14 years of position-related experience in IT monitoring, automation engineering, or a related infrastructure discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience level.

At Bunge (NYSE: BG), our purpose is to connect farmers to consumers to deliver essential food, feed and fuel to the world. As a premier agribusiness solutions provider, our team of ~34,000 dedicated employees partner with farmers across the globe to move agricultural commodities from where they’re grown to where they’re needed—in faster, smarter, and more efficient ways. We are a world leader in grain origination, storage, distribution, oilseed processing and refining, offering a broad portfolio of plant-based oils, fats, and proteins. We work alongside our customers at both ends of the value chain to deliver quality products and develop tailored, innovative solutions that address evolving consumer needs. With 200+ years of experience and presence in over 50 countries, we are committed to strengthening global food security, advancing sustainability, and helping communities prosper where we operate. Bunge has its registered office in Geneva, Switzerland and its corporate headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri. Learn more at Bunge.com.

Every day our people exemplify these values, which represent Bunge at its core:

•    We Are One Team – Collaborative, Respectful, Inclusive
•    We Lead The Way – Agile, Empowered, Innovative
•    We Do What’s Right – Safety, Sustainability, With Integrity

If this sounds like you, join us!  We value and invest in people who believe in our purpose and are excited to live it every day – people who are #ProudtoBeBunge