Senior DevOps Engineer

Senior Engineers – DevOps  

The Big Picture   

About Sysco LABS:  

Sysco LABS is the Global In-House Center of Sysco Corporation (NYSE: SYY), the world’s largest foodservice company. Sysco ranks 55th in the Fortune 500 list and is the global leader in the trillion-dollar foodservice industry.  

Sysco operates 333 distribution centers across 10 countries, with 75,000 colleagues serving approximately 670,000 customer locations, including restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments, entertainment venues and more. For fiscal year 2026, which ended June 27, 2026, the company generated sales of more than $84 billion.  

Sysco LABS Sri Lanka delivers the technology that powers Sysco’s end-to-end operations.  

Sysco LABS’ enterprise technology is present in the end-to-end foodservice journey, enabling 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 and the in-restaurant dining experience of the end-customer.  

The Opportunity 

We are currently on the lookout for Senior Engineers - DevOps to join our team.  

Responsibilities 

• Provision and manage cloud infrastructure across compute, networking, storage, and identity services. 

• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code to ensure consistent configurations across environments. 

• Deploy, configure, and troubleshoot containerised applications and orchestration platforms. 

• Implement monitoring, logging, and observability capabilities to identify performance and availability issues. 

• Develop scripts to automate infrastructure tasks, operational workflows, and remediation. 

• Configure and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support reliable application and infrastructure deployments. 

• Investigate incidents, perform root cause analysis, and improve system reliability and performance. 

• Evaluate tools and platforms through proofs of concept and document findings, recommendations, and implementation guidance. 

• Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures. 

Requirements 

• Minimum 3-5 years of hands-on experience in cloud engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, SRE, or a related field. 

• Hands-on experience provisioning and managing infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure. 

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible. 

• Experience with containerisation and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes. 

• Familiarity with AI tools and AI-assisted engineering practices to improve productivity, automate workflows, troubleshoot technical issues, and support infrastructure and platform engineering tasks. 

• Experience implementing or operating monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK/OpenSearch, or OpenTelemetry. 

• Proficiency in at least one scripting language: Python, Go, or Bash. 

• Working knowledge of CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, or Jenkins. 

• Familiarity with Linux administration and troubleshooting. 

• Ability to work independently while collaborating on technical design and planning. 

• Clear communication skills, including documenting technical findings, trade-offs, and recommendations. 

Benefits: 

• 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   

• Hybrid work arrangement  

Sysco LABS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.