Senior Technical Lead / Technical Lead – DevOps - Sysco LABS Colombo

About the job

Senior Technical Lead / Technical Lead – DevOps

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 72,000 colleagues, the company operates 334 distribution facilities worldwide and serves approximately 725,000 customer locations. For fiscal year 2023 that ended July 1, 2023, the company generated sales of more than $76 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.

We are currently on the lookout for a Senior Technical Lead / Technical Lead – DevOps to join our team.

What you will be responsible for:

-Researching, evaluating and recommending DevOps tools in multiple technologies for multiple development teams.
-Deploying, automating, maintaining and managing AWS cloud-based production systems, to ensure the availability, performance, scalability and security of productions systems.
-Build, release and configuration management of production systems that need to be supported 24* 7 uptime.
-Ensuring critical system security using the best in class cloud security solutions.
-Coaching development teams in DevOps practices and guiding the team to implement effective DevOps.
-Work collaboratively in a cross functional team in an Agile delivery environment.
-Be involved in projects throughout their full software lifecycle: from development, QA, and deployment, to post-production support.

What you need to have to apply for this position:

-A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent, and for Technical Lead: 6+ years, and for Senior Technical Lead: 8 + of experience in DevOps.
-A strong knowledge on AWS cloud computing and AWS DevOps tools.
-Strong knowledge in fundamental DevOps tools such as AWS DevOps tools, Terraform, Jenkins, GoCD, GitHub, Nagios, Chef etc.
-Strong knowledge on containerization of software packages using solutions such as Dockerization, Kubernetes, AWS ECS, 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

Sysco LABS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.