PepsiCo’s Sustain & Operations team, part of the Digital Products and Applications (DPA) organization, delivers and sustains digital products across Strategy and Transformation’s core priorities to accelerate PepsiCo’s digital transformation.

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

To drive higher order outcomes for the business, all applications & underlying infrastructure/services independently operating must be equally resilient and also the data interactions across these applications supporting a business process be equally resilient. This neccesiates operating in modern way leveraging SRE principles and thereby driving higher order outcomes to our customers who use our our tools / products to achieve their business process resiliency via pre-emptive detect, diagnose and recover.

The Senior solutions architect is an advanced subject matter expert of Application architectures, SRE principles, primarily responsible for design and implementing modern ways of support operations solutions for the PepsiCo landscape of digital products applications, while ensuring SRE principles are followed during the design of the products.

The transformation towards modern operations in an SRE construct is for all programs under DPA, per the main purpose

• This involves diagnosing for deviations (anomalies), assessing output accuracy at each process step, and implementing measures to prevent faulty outcomes from impacting business processes and end users.
• To bring this to life, new shift left activities are critical to apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and quality assurance principles within the application design to drive higher first pass yield.
• Once in production, the SRE-driven orchestration toolkit connects all components of the ecosystem and preemptively diagnosing anomalies and remediating through automation, minimizing net business and/or customer impact driving a high second pass yield.

The Sr. solution architect is responsible for the design & consumption of the SRE practices during design and in production.

• Reporting directly to the SRE & Quality Assurance Sr. director, is responsible to drive the SRE Engineering activities within the application design and building and SRE orchestration platform that enables seamless detect, diagnose and recover minimizing the impact.
• Refine & deliver requirements for service enhancements with product engineering team and Solution architecture and collaborate with key product managers and stakeholders
• Be a Technical leader in the global DPA team that drives, measures and optimizes SLA/SLO/SLI and error budgets for the product offerings
• Lead to develop / deliver SRE orchestration software solutions to automate service delivery using techniques such as flash, terraform, ansible or a custom solution
• Collaborate with Dev ops / Dev SecOps team proactively to build reliability and resiliency into their services without disrupting the CI/CD pipelines
• Leads the definition, collection and analysis of data relevant products systems and their interactions towards business process resiliency especially related impacting customer satisfaction, Revenue or IT productivity
• Operate in an ever evolving landscape of product offerings to deliver first class service to our customers
• Work closely with customer facing support teams to evolve & empower them with SRE insights
• Participate in on-call support and orchestrating blameless post-mortems and encourage the practise within the organization
• Actively engage and drive AI Ops adoption across teams

Compensation and Benefits:

• The expected compensation range for this position is between $118,700 - $198,800.
• Location, confirmed job-related skills, experience, and education will be considered in setting actual starting salary. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range during the hiring process.
• Bonus based on performance and eligibility target payout is 15% of annual salary paid out annually.
• Paid time off subject to eligibility, including paid parental leave, vacation, sick, and bereavement.
• In addition to salary, PepsiCo offers a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees and their families, subject to elections and eligibility: Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability, Health, and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life), Defined Contribution Retirement Plan.

• 15 plus years of work experience evolving to a solution architect with 3-5 years of experience in continuously improving and transforming IT operations ways of working
• The ideal Engineer 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
• The candidate will take a pragmatic approach resolving incidents, including the ability to systemically triangulate root causes and work effectively with external and internal teams to meet objectives.
• Exceptional business relationship skills including the 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.
• A firm understanding of SRE (Software Reliability Engineering) and IT Service Management (ITSM) processes with a track record for improving service offerings - resolving incidents, providing a seamless customer/end-user experience and proactively identifying and mitigating areas of risk
• Experience in leading high-performing teams
• Deep hands-on technical expertise, excellent verbal and written communication skills

Our Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and all other applicable laws, including but not limited to, San Francisco Police Code Sections 4901-4919, commonly referred to as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance; and Chapter XVII, Article 9 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code, commonly referred to as the Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Female / Minority / Disability / Protected Veteran / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity

If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please download the available EEO is the Law & EEO is the Law Supplement documents. View PepsiCo EEO Policy.

 Please view our Pay Transparency Statement