Senior Manager - DevOps Engineer

Job Description:

PepsiCo eCommerce has an opportunity for a Cloud Infrastructure security or DevSecOps engineer focused on our applications running in Azure and AWS.   You will be part of the DevOps and cloud infrastructure team that is responsible for Cloud security, infrastructure provisioning, maintaining existing platforms and provides our partner teams with guidance for building, maintain and optimizing integration and deployment pipelines as code for deploying our applications to run in AWS & Azure. This role offers many exciting challenges and opportunities, some of the major duties are:

• Work with engineering teams to develop and improve our CI / CD pipelines that enforce proper versioning and branching practices using technologies like Github, Github Actions, ArgoCD, Kubernetes, Docker and Terraform.
• Create, deploy & maintain Kubernetes based platforms for a variety of different workloads in AWS and Azure.

Role & responsibilities

• Deploy infrastructure in Azure & AWS cloud using terraform and Infra-as-code best practices.
• Participate in development of Ci/CD workflows to launch application from build to deployment using modern devOps tools like Kubernetes, ArgoCD/Flux, terraform, helm.
• Ensure the highest possible uptime for our Kubernetes based developer productivity platforms.
• Partner with development teams to recommend best practices for application uptime and recommend best practices for cloud native infrastructure architecture.
• Collaborate in infra & application architecture discussions decision making that is part of continually improving and expanding these platforms.
• Automate everything. Focus on creating tools that make your life easy and benefit the entire org and business.
• Evaluate and support onboarding of 3rd party SaaS applications or work with teams to integrate new tools and services into existing apps.
• Create documentation, runbooks, disaster recovery plans and processes.
• Collaborate with application development teams to perform RCA.
• Implement and manage threat detection protocols, processes and systems.
• Conduct regular vulnerability assessments and ensure timely remediation of flagged incidents.
• Ensure compliance with internal security policies and external regulations like PCI.
• Lead the integration of security tools such as Wiz, Snyk, DataDog and others within the Pepsico infrastructure.
• Coordinate with PepsiCo's broader security teams to align Digital Commerce security practices with corporate standards.
• Provide security expertise and support to various teams within the organization.
• Advocate and enforce security best practices, such as RBAC and the principle of least privilege.
• Continuously review, improve and document security policies and procedures.
• Participate in on-call rotation to support our NOC and incident management teams.

Preferred candidate profile

• 8+ years of IT Experience.
• 5+ year of Kubernetes, ideally running workloads in a production environment on AKS or EKS platforms.
• 4+ year of creating Ci/CD pipelines in any templatized format in Github, Gitlab or Azure ADO.
• 3+ year of Python, bash and any other OOP language. (Please be prepared for coding assessment in your language of choice.)
• 5+ years of experience deploying infrastructure to Azure platforms.
• 3+ year of experience with using terraform or writing terraform modules.
• 3+ year of experience with Git, Gitlab or GitHub.
• 2+ year experience as SRE or supporting micro services in containerized environment like Nomad, docker swarn or K8s.
• Kubernetes certifications like KCNA, KCSA, CKA, CKAD or CKS preferred
• Good understanding of software development lifecycle.
• Familiarity with:
• Site Reliability Engineering
• AWS, Azure, or similar cloud platforms
• Automated build process and tools
• Service Mesh like Istio, linkerd
• Monitoring tools like Datadog, Splunk etc.
• Able to administer and run basic SQL queries in Postgres, mySQL or any relational database.
• Current skills in following technologies:
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• AWS or Azure (Azure Preferred).
• GitHub Actions or Gitlab workflow.
• Familiar with Agile processes and tools such as Jira; good to have experience being part of Agile teams, continuous integration, automated testing, and test-driven development
• BSc/MSc in computer science, software engineering or related field is a plus, alternatively completion of a devOps or Infrastructure training course or bootcamp is acceptable as well.
• Self-starter; bias for action and for quick iteration on ideas / concepts; strong interest in proving out ideas and technologies with rapid prototyping
• Ability to interact well across various engineering teams
• Team player; excellent listening skills; welcoming of ideas and new ways of looking at things; able to efficiently take part in brainstorming sessions.