Cloud Platform Enablement Engineer

Overview:
PepsiCo products are enjoyed by consumers more than one billion times a day in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. PepsiCo generated more than $79 billion in net revenue in 2021, driven by a complementary beverage and convenient foods portfolio that includes
**LAY’S ®, DORITOS ®, CHEETOS ®, GATORADE ®, PEPSI ®, QUAKER ®** and more. PepsiCo's product portfolio includes a wide range of enjoyable foods and beverages, including many iconic brands that generate more than $1 billion each in estimated annual retail sales.

Guiding PepsiCo is our vision to Be the Global Leader in Beverages and Convenient Foods by Winning with PepsiCo Positive (pep+). pep+ is our strategic end-to-end transformation that puts sustainability and human capital at the center of how we will create value and growth by operating within planetary boundaries and inspiring positive change for planet and people.

Our employees drive our culture. No two days are the same; we are dynamic and full of passionate teams that embrace new ideas through our collaborative spirit. At PepsiCo, we know that our company can only succeed when our associates and the society we serve flourishes. We are committed to fostering a diverse workforce by creating a collaborative, equitable and inclusive space where everyone, regardless of what we look like, where we come from or who we love, has a voice. At PepsiCo we create a Space to be you.

**Responsibilities**:
**What will you work on**:
This role will help to lead the cloud platform enablement efforts globally, in partnership with other team members. Each project will have their own implementation team to ensure that we have sufficient staff to implement the services required in a cost effective and secure manner.
- Work with all Project team members and process owners on process business requirements, architecture and design, implementation, functional and performance testing, high availability design and testing, disaster recovery design and testing, cost estimates, approvals, various stage gates within our PLM, as well as implementation, hypercare, and transition to sustain
- Work with other teams such as:

- Cloud Onboarding Team to ensure project is onboarded into proper landing zone within the cloud
- Cloud Architecture and Engineering team to validate architectural patterns
- Cloud Solution Architecture to architect / design solution options, and recommendations for best fit
- Cloud Financial Management to capture estimated costs and tagging strategy
- Work with 3rd party vendors engaged in implementation efforts for requirements, testing, and usage of the automation
- Assess any differences in recommendations for Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) or Software as a Service (SaaS), as well as nuances for Azure and AWS that may require different processes.
- Reaffirm recommended hosting model to ensure the implementation of the new solutions in the cloud will have a cost-effective support model and hosting model for all services.
- Review side by side comparisons of labor costs, hosting / hardware costs, software licenses, shared services costs, Operating System / database versions and patch levels, along with proposed design and implementation method as well as optimization required to drive alignment across various teams
- Drive project implementation recommendations to support the multiyear cloud transformation journey which would include operationalizing the required technology in a hybrid multi-cloud environment. This role will also provide guidance and leadership when a legacy system is to be replaced with the on-boarding of new cloud-native solutions for PepsiCo.

Qualifications:
**Who are we looking for?**

A leader with strong communications and organizational skills with the ability to deal with ambiguity while juggling multiple priorities and projects at the same time
- Bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, engineering, or related field
- 5+ years of related IT business work experience
- 5 years of relevant experience in cloud infrastructure principles and methodologies
- 5 years of relevant experience with Infrastructure delivery and/or operations
- 2+ years of cloud experience including project implementation and optimization of optimization of cloud cost (IaaS and PaaS)

**Technical Skills Required**:

- Experience working in a multi-cloud environment with demonstrated experience leading cloud deployment projects (including cloud native development and migration)
- Solid understanding of Containerization and Virtualization technologies such as VMWare, docker
- Experience working with Azure DevOps or similar tools for tracking, developing, deploying software
- Experience with Configuration, migration and deployment efforts related to Azure or AWS IaaS/PaaS Technologies
- Experience operating complex multi-datacenter, multi-cluster environment and a strong understanding of multi-tenancy and security
- Experience w