SRE Engineering Associate Director Platform & Orchestration Solutions

Overview

PepsiCo's Digital Transformation requires new business processes, new digital products and new operations outcomes.

The transformation towards modern operations in an SRE construct is for all the programs under Digital products, Tech Strategy & Enterprise Product, per the main purpose to drive higher order outcomes to our customers who use our our tools / products to achieve their Business process /value steam KPI - Output resiliency enabled via a full SRE Practice incident prevention / proactive resolution model in the PepsiCo digital products application portfolio of 200+ applications

To bring this to life, we are looking for a self-driven, forward thinking Associate Director -SRE Orchestration Solutions, an advanced subject matter expert of Software Development engineering, Application architectures both traditional on-prem and modern cloud native to

• Design, architect and lead the development of the SRE Observability & Orchestration Solutions integrating with Dev Engineering, product management & Business Operations
• Enrich Detect Diagnose Resolve Resiliency framework with AI Enabled solutions to traditional and modern application portfolio across the TS&EP organization.
• Integrate Digital Product Resiliency platform with D&AI PEP Wise and I&O Value Stream Monitoring platforms along with applicable integrations with North America's Track & Trace platform.
• Seamless scaling & ease of consumption by SRE orchestration Platform of connecting all components of the ecosystem and preemptively diagnosing anomalies and remediating through automation, minimizing nett business impact driving a 'Delighted customer experience' while tightly integrated with SRE Design Enablement & SRE Operations

Responsibilities

Reporting directly to the SRE - ApplicationResiliency& Automation Sr.Director,the modern Engineering leader

• Supports& Influenceacross teams,the vision and guide a team of engineers to build and support digital products and applications acrossTech Strategy & Enterprise Productcore priorities

• Seasoned with hands on developing full stack solutionsin Java and Spring /SpringBootecosystem,JUnit,BackendMicroservices, Serverless Computing and REST API'S, along withPostgresand SQL

• Drivefront end user experience&Mobileuser experienceleveragedin Digital transformation programs,leveragingReact /React native, Angular & Vue.js and a responsive UI/UX design. Adept on front end architecture standards, Performance, accessibility & security to enable seamless diagnostics & resiliency.

• Oversee hygiene and consumption of Data base and design/defineresiliency patterns on Relational and NoSQLdatabases:MySQL,Postgres, MongoDB, Oracle &SQLServer.

• Integrations inhyperscale PublicCloud,Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and cloud specific PaaS and SaaS solutions

• Partner with User Experience, Product Management, IT, Data & Analytics, Emerging Tech, Innovation, and Process Engineering teams to deliver the Digital Products portfolio

• Leads architecting & developing SRE orchestrationcapabilities through a customer obsessed,services drivenDetect, diagnose,resolveresiliencyplatform thatleveragesdata and AI to deliver automated and personalized experiences

• Leads & develops engineering solutions that transform towards pre-emptivediagnosis & autoresolvablesupportensuring 24x7 availability and performance of mission-critical systems.

• Anintegralpart of being in front on critical issuesdrivingtimelyresolution and clear communication with stakeholders.

• Interact with key business partners to recommend solutions that best meet the strategic needs of the business

• Evolves our organization as Industry leader in SRE & AI Ops capabilities partnering with both internal Enterprisearchitecture andexternal SRE Practitioners

• Evangelism and education throughout S&T with all levels of leadership to ensure awareness and alignment Application Reliability & Assuranceobjectivesand AI initiatives.

• An expert of application architecturesensuring we are designingSRE orchestration solution to scale across the cloud native and traditional on-prem application of 200 + apps across Business Processes, Applications, Services (ie. data pipelines) andinfratoidentifydeviations, assess accuracy, prevent faulty output, Dynamic workflow automation to recover & reprocess and provide insights enabled by AI

• An integraland an organic extension ofDev engineeringduring solution designnot just for the application but across thefullstackdefining resiliency solutionsaligningacrossproductengineering,Solution architectureotherstakeholders

• Actively engages with D&AIPEP Wiseand I&O Value Stream Monitoring platforms along with applicable integrations with North America's Track & Trace platform, making the DPRF platform integration seamless

• Leads /influences the definition, collection and analysis of data relevant products systems and their interactions towards digital product resiliency especially related impacting customersatisfaction,Revenueor IT productivity
• Operate in anever-evolvinglandscape of product offerings to deliver first class service to our customers
• Work closely with customer facing support teams to evolve & empower themwith SRE insightsvia theDetect, Diagnose, resolve, resiliencyplatform
• Activelyengageand drive AI Ops adoption across teams

Qualifications

• Abachelor's degree in computer science,Engineeringor a related field, preferably amaster'sor PhD in Computer Science or Engineering preferred

• 16-20 years of experience working within a cross-functional Technology organization in partnership with Sector Leads, GlobalSoftwareEngineering, Enterprise/SolutionArchitecture, InformationSecurity.

• Minimum of 10-12 years of software development and engineering managementpracticedelivering DigitalEnablement(Digital Products,Strategy, Operations,etc.) across a Global Technology Functionespecially towards a north star transformation

• Minimumof 5+ years of experience in SRE ApplicationOperations,in continuously improving and transforming IT operations ways of working

• 5+ years experienced on front end user experience & Mobile solutionsleveragingReact /React native, Angular & Vue.js and a responsive UI/UX design, and being adept inAdept on front end architecture, Performancestandards for defining SRE at Design

• 8+years of Hand-on experience in Java and Spring /Spring Bootecosystem, JUnit,Microservices, Serverless Computing, Rest APIs, Kubernetes, Kafka, Data Pipelines, data products, EBI

• 6-8years' experiencein managinghygiene and consumption of Data base and design/define resiliency patterns on Relational and NoSQLdatabases:MySQL,Postgres, MongoDB, Oracle &SQLServer.

• Adept with 5+ years of experience in hyperscale PublicCloud, Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and cloud specific PaaS and SaaS solutions

• Commanding knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and object-oriented design & Working knowledge of programming languages beyond Java, C or C++ (e.g.Ruby, Python, Perl)

• The ideal leader will be highly quantitative, have great judgment, able to connect dots across workstreams, and efficiently work cross-functionally across teams to ensure SRE orchestrating solutions are meeting customer/end-user expectations

• Exceptional business relationship skillsincludingthe ability to communicate effectively both internally and externally. You can communicate complex technical data to a non-technical person in a concise, clear, and easily understood manner.

• Ability to create strategic plans spanning multiple time horizons and across multiple partner Teams.

• Ability to build cross-functional relationships through trust, respect, and partnership.

• Experiencedriving consensus around and across virtual teams and multiple functions through clear communication of vision andobjectives, thorough planning, effective execution, and realization of desired benefits.

• Trackrecordconsistently delivering excellent results in challenging and/or transformational environments.

• Deep hands-on technicalexpertise, excellentverbaland written communication skills

Skills Required
Angular, Spring Boot, Kafka, Microservices, React, Kubernetes, Postgres, React Native, Paas, Google Cloud, Rest Apis, Saas, Serverless Computing, Sql, Azure, Java, Spring, Vue.JS, Mongodb, Oracle, Junit, Amazon Web Services, Mysql