THE BIG PICTURE
Sysco LABS is the captive innovation center for Sysco Corporation (NYSE:SYY), a Fortune 100 company and the world’s largest foodservice provider with 71,000+ associates, 330+ distribution centers and over 725,000 customers in 90 countries. For fiscal 2023 that ended July 1, 2023, Sysco generated over $76 billion in sales.
Sysco LABS powers Sysco’s farm-to-fork operations and our technology is present in the sourcing of food products, merchandising, storage and warehouse operations, order placement and pricing algorithms, the delivery of food and supplies to Sysco’s global network, the in-restaurant dining experience of the end-customer and much more.
Our technology ecosystem spans 600+ applications, monitoring and incident management across 10,000+ servers, multi-cloud – multi-platform event streaming and microservices architecture, and enterprise-grade systems that power a catalog of over 1.4 million products, 330+ distribution centers and a fleet of 14,000 IoT-enabled delivery trucks, and more.
Everything we do at Sysco LABS supports Sysco’s Purpose of ‘Connecting the world to share food and care for one another’, and our technology directly impacts millions of food consumers in a trillion-dollar, global industry.
THE OPPORTUNITY
We are currently on the lookout for a competent, self-motivated Engineer – Cloud Services for our Cloud Services team with a deep understanding of Linux, GCP/AWS Cloud and Azure to collaborate, lead change, automate and inspire teams towards delivery excellence at Sysco LABS.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Driving the creation of infrastructure, environment provisioning, deployment and monitoring tools that will support, enhance and grow an advanced infrastructure support model for Sysco’s multi-cloud environments
- Designing and developing re-usable components and operational strategies in the cloud and datacenters to support scalability, high-availability, performance, monitoring, backup, restoring, etc.
- Acting as SME for Linux based workloads, providing solutions to problems, handling migrations, and troubleshooting any issues in a timely manner
- Working with tools such as Jenkins, Docker, Terraform, AWS Systems Manager, Cloud Formation, and Kubernetes for cloud operation work on AWS, GCP and Azure
- Patch Management and coordinating patch schedules with other teams such as Security, Change Management, Incident Management and Dev teams
- Improving our knowledge base and engineering standards through documentation
- Ensuring the security of all Sysco LABS’ infrastructure, data, applications, and configurations
- Automation and scripting via Ansible, Python, Bash, Cloud Formation or Terraform
- Monitoring and proactively managing systems and application issues
- Working on a roster covering 24x7 support to our end users
REQUIREMENTS
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- Certifications on Google cloud/Amazon Web Services (AWS) and a solid understanding of their services
- Certifications on Linux based Systems and 1 to 3 years of proven experience as a Linux administrator
- Good interpersonal skills, including the ability to work successfully in an Agile, DevOps team environment
- The ability to utilize scripting languages such as Ansible, Python, Bash and PowerShell
- Excellent knowledge of networking and containerization
- Knowledge on middle-tier applications including all web servers such as Apache, Nginx, RabbitMQ, Redis, and Mem-cache will be an added advantage
- Strong oral, written, and presentation abilities, able to convey risk to all levels of the business, from executives to operations and development teams
- Certifications in the areas of Azure, GCP, AWS, Linux, or Networking will be an added advantage
BENEFITS
- US dollar-linked compensation
- Performance-based annual bonus
- Performance rewards and recognition
- Agile Benefits - special allowances for Health, Wellness & Academic purposes
- Paid birthday leave
- Team engagement allowance
- Comprehensive Health & Life Insurance Cover - extendable to parents and in-laws
- Overseas travel opportunities and exposure to client environments
- Hybrid work arrangement
Sysco LABS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
