Senior Engineers – DevOps  

About Sysco LABS:  

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.     

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: 

• Researching, evaluating and recommending DevOps tools in multiple technologies for multiple development teams 

• Deploying, automating, maintaining and managing AWS cloud-based production systems, to ensure the availability, performance, scalability and security of productions systems 

• Building, releasing and configuration management of production systems that need to be supported 24* 7 uptime 

• Ensuring critical system security using the best-in-class cloud security solutions 

• Coaching development teams in DevOps practices and guiding the team to implement effective DevOps 

• 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 

Requirements 

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent, and 2-4 years of experience in DevOps 

• A strong knowledge of AWS cloud computing and AWS DevOps tools 

• Strong knowledge in fundamental DevOps tools such as AWS DevOps tools, Terraform, Jenkins, GoCD, GitHub, Nagios, Chef etc. 

• Strong knowledge on containerization of software packages using solutions such as Dockerization, Kubernetes, AWS ECS and AWS Fargate, etc. 

• Hands-on experience designing, developing, testing and troubleshooting DevOps tools in production systems 

• Adherence to engineering standards, best practices – must be process-oriented 

• Strong communication skills – reading and comprehending documents/specifications, producing clear and thorough documentation, and the ability to discuss and explain technical issues during meetings 

• 1+ years of experience with at least one dynamic object-oriented programing language like Groovy, Ruby or Python; Experience with a programming language like Java, C#, Node.js JavaScript and related web frameworks 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.