PepsiCo - Deputy Director - Cloud Engineering

Description :

You will architect across AWS and Azure at an expert level, champion DevOps and SRE culture, lead cloud-native platform decisions, and serve as a technical thought leader on emerging technologies including AI-driven infrastructure and FinOps practices. This role is both hands-on and strategic. You are expected to write code, build prototypes, own architectural artefacts, and actively mentor senior engineers ; while also influencing technology roadmaps and cross-functional engineering decisions at a principal level.

Responsibilities :

Troubleshooting & reliability :

- Own resolution of critical infra incidents across AWS & Azure

- Lead RCAs and produce actionable post-mortems

- Define and enforce SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets

- Build runbooks, playbooks, and on-call frameworks

Cloud architecture :

- Design scalable, secure architectures for cloud workloads

- Architect hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity models

- Create reference architectures and golden paths

- Lead architectural reviews and produce ADRs

Infra modernisation :

- Drive migration from legacy to cloud-native systems

- Champion IaC adoption at scale (Terraform / Bicep)

- Mature Kubernetes platform across EKS and AKS

- Lead FinOps and cloud cost optimisation initiatives

DevOps, observability & AI :

- Define CI/CD, GitOps, and developer platform standards

- Drive observability using Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry

- Architect AI/ML-ready infra and integrate AIOps tooling

- Mentor engineers and influence the technology roadmap

Qualifications :

- Deep Kubernetes knowledge (EKS, AKS, RBAC, service mesh)

- Strong cloud networking (VPC/VNet, BGP, Private Link, ZTA)

- IaC at scale : Terraform, Pulumi, or CloudFormation/Bicep

- SRE practices : SLO/SLI, error budgets, chaos engineering

- Observability stack : Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry

- Scripting in Python and Shell/Bash

- Config management with Ansible (AWX/Tower)

Good to have :

- AIOps

- FinOps tools

- Databricks / Kafka

- Go / TypeScript

- Edge computing

Experience :

- Led modernisation programmes end-to-end

- Owned P0/P1 incident resolution at scale

- Degree in CS/IT or equivalent practical experience

Preferred certifications :

- AZ- 305

- CKA / CKS

- Terraform Associate

- AI- 102

- FinOps CP