Job Description

Responsibilities:

Work as an Azure infrastructure foundation engineer to design and implement cloud infrastructure and shared services, establish / develop / publish technical standards and patterns, deliver both high level and low design as well as operation and governance processes for cloud operation to support the solution. Support cloud migration teams and digital platform teams to adopt the cloud infrastructure foundation properly, review cloud infrastructure changes, and provide level 3 support for cloud infrastructure foundation. The cloud infrastructure and shared services include IaaS and PaaS services, cloud native networking, cloud security, high availability and disaster recovery capabilities.



Design, development and maintenance of cloud marketplace platform, cloud infrastructure automation for PepsiCo enterprise Azure and AWS environments, including day 1 services provisioning and configuration and day 2 operation activities
Qualifications:

Years of experience• 3+ years of Azure & AWS infrastructure engineering and operation experience
• 3+ years of cloud automation and CI/CD working experience using Azure DevOps, Ansible Playbooks, PowerShell, Terraform and ARM
• 8+ years of IT infrastructure and solution architecture experience



Mandatory Technical Skills• Hands on experience in Private and Public Cloud.
• Azure native networking and platform services experience and knowledge of large and complex global cloud foundation and infrastructure
• Azure IaaS and PaaS - Azure VMs, DNS, Azure Load Balancer, Application Gateway, Azure DDoS, AKS, Databricks, Azure SQL DB, Azure Storage, ADLS, Synapse, FrontDoor, Traffic Manager
• Azure networking - ExpressRoute, Virtual Network, Hub / Spoke VNET, BGP, UDR, Palo Alto, Private Link, private endpoint, service endpoint, Network Watcher
• Azure security - NSG, ASG, security policies, role based access management
• Azure HA and DR - ASR, regions, Availability Zone, Availability Set, Scale Set, PPG
• Windows and Linux OS platforms
• Architecture design and engineering practices, technology standards and patterns
• Scope, plan, design and implement complex infrastructure solutions
• Terraform
• Azure DevOps (Azure repo and pipelines)
• Ansible and Ansible Playbooks development
• Linux (Redhat, Suse) and Windows (Windows 2019)
• Automated deployment for ISV products like - Palo Alto, F5
• Automated Azure Policy, AWS Security policy


Mandatory non technical skills• Technical leadership, proactive, resilient and motivated
• Prioritization and decision making
• Strong team player
• Strong oral and written communication skills to influence technical and non-technical peers and senior management
• Strong interpersonal, collaboration, and coordination skills
• Strong logical & creative thinking and analytical skills, and problem-solving skills
• Curiosity to learn and willing to coach


Differentiating Competencies• Proven success in delivering large and complex Azure cloud foundation and infrastructure and enable mission critical business solution
• Change driver, with proven successes and lessons learned from past programs
• Be comfortable translating technical information to leadership and be able to create associated story boards
• Decompose complex problems and simplify solutions.
• Solid Azure and AWS infrastructure architecture experience with breadth and depth
• Solid cloud automation architecture and engineering experience for large scale enterprise environment
• Set and enforce architecture standards and guidelines.
• Seasoned professional with vast experience, with broad and deep expertise in cloud automation and infrastructure with 5+ years of experience
• Identify opportunities in cloud marketplace and automation, set direction, analyze business requirements and technology options, design solutions and integrate best practices.
• Strong communication and influence skills to socialize and align architecture roadmap and design to peers and senior leadership (LG1+)
• Support all PepsiCo global IT functions and sectors for cloud automation for IaaS and PaaS, collaborate with teams outside of I&O organization and sector IT teams, running on highly complex cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) technologies and services.
• Continuously adopt and leverage new cloud technologies to create secure, global scalable, and highly reliable infrastructure automation design and implementation in PepsiCo Azure/AWS regions