JOB DESCRIPTION

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 Engineers – DevOps to join our team. This is an opportunity for 5 skilled individuals to support the transformation of the world’s leader in foodservice.

RESPONSIBILITIES

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

Building, releasing and configuration management of production systems that need to be supported for 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

Working collaboratively in a cross-functional team in an Agile delivery environment

Being involved in projects throughout their full software lifecycle: from development, QA, and deployment to post-production support

REQUIREMENTS

A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent, and 1-2 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 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

The ability to adhere to engineering standards, best practices; must 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.