THE BIG PICTURE
Sysco LABS is the captive innovation arm of Sysco Corporation (NYSE: SYY), the world’s largest foodservice company. Sysco is a Fortune 500 company and the global leader in selling, marketing, and distributing food products to restaurants, healthcare, and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other customers who prepare meals away from home. Its family of products also includes equipment and supplies for the foodservice and hospitality industries. With more than 76,000 colleagues, the company operates 334 distribution facilities worldwide and serves approximately 730,000 customer locations. For fiscal year 2024 that ended July 1, 2024, the company generated sales of more than $78.8 billion.
Operating with the agility and tenacity of a tech–startup, powered by the expertise of the industry leader, Sysco LABS is perfectly poised to transform one of the world’s largest industries.
Sysco LABS’s engineering teams based out of Colombo, Sri Lanka and Austin and Houston, TX, innovate across the entire food service journey – from the enterprise grade technology that enables Sysco’s business, to the technology that revolutionizes the way that Sysco connects with restaurants and the technology that shapes the way those restaurants connect with customers.
Sysco LABS 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.
THE OPPORTUNITY
We are currently on the lookout for a Technical Lead – DevOps to join our team.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Architecting scalable DevOps solutions for CI/CD, infrastructure automation, observability, and more
Defining and enforcing DevOps best practices, such as GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and Immutable Infrastructure
Driving initiatives for infrastructure cost optimization and performance tuning
Leading the adoption of DevSecOps by integrating security into CI/CD pipelines
Identifying areas for investment in tooling, skills, and automation, and justifying these through impact and ROI
Providing technical mentorship to junior DevOps engineers
Collaborating with developers, QA, platform, and SRE teams to support the full SDLC
Enforcing governance across environments, including access controls, secrets management, and logging standards
Facilitating cross-team alignment regarding environment readiness, release orchestration, and rollback strategies
Participating in designing on-call rotations, managing escalations, and conducting incident retrospectives
Promoting a Kaizen mindset — regularly auditing pipelines, systems, and processes for optimization
Staying updated on industry trends (e.g., GitOps, Platform Engineering, FinOps) and evaluating adoption
REQUIREMENTS
A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent, and for STL: 8 years of experience in DevOps. For TL: 6+ years of experience in DevOps
A strong knowledge of AWS cloud computing and AWS DevOps tools
Strong knowledge in fundamental DevOps tools such as AWS DevOps tools, Terraform, Jenkins, GoCD, GitHub, Nagios and Chef etc.
Strong knowledge of containerization of software packages using solutions such as Dockerization, Kubernetes, AWS ECS and AWS Fargate, etc.
Hands-on experience designing, developing, testing and troubleshooting DevOps tools in production systems
Adherence to engineering standards, best practices - be process oriented
Strong communication skills – reading & comprehending documents/specifications, producing clear and thorough documentation, ability to discuss and explain technical issues during meetings
1+ years of experience with one of the dynamic object-oriented programing languages like Groovy, Ruby or Python; experience with a programming language like Java, C#, Node.js JavaScript and related web frameworks 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
