About this role
JOB DESCRIPTION
Senior Engineer – Cloud Services
The Big Picture
Sysco LABS is the Global In-House Center of Sysco Corporation (NYSE: SYY), the world’s largest foodservice company. Sysco ranks 56th in the Fortune 500 list and is the global leader in the trillion-dollar foodservice industry.
Sysco employs over 75,000 associates, has 337 smart distribution facilities worldwide, and over 14,000 IoT-enabled trucks serving 730,000 customer locations. For fiscal year 2025 that ended June 29, 2025, the company generated sales of more than $81.4 billion.
Sysco LABS Sri Lanka delivers the technology that powers Sysco’s end-to-end operations. Everything we do at Sysco LABS supports Sysco’s Purpose of “Connecting the world to share food and care for one another”, and our work directly impacts millions of food consumers in a trillion-dollar, global industry.
The Opportunity:
We are currently on the lookout for a Senior Engineer – Cloud Services to join our team and contribute to the Planning, designing and building of technical solutions and application controls in Public and Private Cloud as well as Linux-based workloads. The right candidate must be able to understand the needs for new initiatives and server build requirements to build secure, scalable, distributed and high-performance computing cloud-based platform solutions on GCP, AWS and Azure. They should also be able to provide our clients with optimal solutions for critical issues, and to propose or recommend improvements in their work environments.
Responsibilities:
Contributing to the infrastructure provisioning, deployment and monitoring that will support, enhance and grow Data Platforms
Managing and optimizing cloud resources on cloud platforms to ensure both cost-efficiency and high performance of the Data Platforms
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
Providing support through troubleshooting of technical issues, unblocking users and detecting root cause(s) based on SLAs
Patch management and coordinating patch schedules with other teams such as security, change management, incident management and Dev teams
Developing and enforcing best practices for infrastructure management, security, and compliance
Preparing and maintaining documentation related to infrastructure setup, processes, and procedures
Ensuring the security of Data Platform infrastructure, data, applications, and configurations
Systems alert monitoring and proactively managing Data Platform systems and application issues
Requirements:
A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent, and 3-5 years of experience in Cloud Engineering/Platform Engineering
Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform
Strong understanding of networking (VPC, subnets, firewall rules, private services)
Solid knowledge of IAM, service accounts, workload identity, and security best practices
Hands-on experience with BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, DataStream, Dataflow, Dataproc, Cloud Run/Functions & Cloud Composer, etc.
Strong knowledge in DevOps tools such as Infrastructure as Code: Terraform/Terragrunt, Jenkins, GitHub, ArgoCD, Ansible for infrastructure provisioning & Automation
Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines - Git-based workflows or Cloud Build or any
Proficiency in RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, or other Linux distributions and having RHCS certification or any other Linux administration-based certification would be an added advantage
Scripting or programming skills (Python, Bash, GO, or similar)
Adherence to engineering process, standards, and best practices
Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability technologies such as Datadog or equivalent will be an added advantage
Working experience in production-scale data platforms will be an added advantage
Experience integrating third-party data tools (e.g., Fivetran, Informatica) will be an added advantage
Certifications in the areas of GCP will be an added advantage
Experience in AWS or Azure 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.
Other facts
About Sysco
Sysco is the global leader in selling, marketing and distributing food and related products to customers who prepare meals away from home. This includes restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments, entertainment venues, and more. Sysco operates almost 340 distribution centers, in over 10 countries, with 76,000 colleagues serving approximately 730,000 customer locations. The company generated sales of more than $81 billion in fiscal year 2025 that ended June 28, 2025.
As the world’s largest food-away-from-home distributor, Sysco offers customized supply chain solutions, bespoke specialty product offerings, and culinary support to drive customers to innovate and optimize their operations. We act as a trusted business partner to our customers, helping them grow through our industry-leading portfolio that includes fresh produce, premium proteins, specialty products, sustainably focused items, equipment and supplies, and innovative culinary solutions.
For more information, visit www.sysco.com.
What you'll do
- The Senior Engineer will contribute to the infrastructure provisioning, deployment, and monitoring that supports Data Platforms. They will also manage and optimize cloud resources to ensure cost-efficiency and high performance.
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