Cloud Sr Automation Engineer

PepsiCo•Plano, TX

3d•$80,200 - $134,250

About The Position

Design, development and maintenance of DevX/Cloud Marketplace Platform, Cloud Infrastructure Automation of different OS platforms and DB Technologies (IaaS and PaaS) for PepsiCo Enterprise Azure, AWS, GCP and Private Cloud environments using Ansible and TerraForm.

Requirements

3-5 years total development and automation experience using Ansible, TerraForm, Python and other DevOps technologies
Extensive experience in writing Ansible Playbooks and TF modules, config files
3+ years of experience of automating IT Infrastructure - compute (Windows and Linux OS with RHEL, SLES and OEL), Network, Storage and Databases (relational and non-relational)
3+ years of experience in automating Cloud resources in Azure and AWS public clouds
3+ years of experience administrating Ansible Infrastructure Platform
3+ years of experience in Version Control systems with ADO (Azure Dev Ops) or Github
Understanding and Exposure to automating infrastructure in Nutanix private cloud environment.
Ansible and Ansible Playbooks development
Terraform Modules development for Azure/AWS/GCP for reusable components
HCL (Hashicorp Configuration Language) Proficiency for writing TerraForm Configuration Files
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and cloud technologies
Azure DevOps, GitHub, Github flows, Github Actions, CI/CD
Python, PowerShell, Shell Scripting, JSON, Rest API
Strong oral and written communication skills to influence technical and non-technical peers and senior management
Strong interpersonal, collaboration, and coordination skills
Strong logical & critical thinking and analytical skills

Responsibilities

Drive platform modernization and self-service by developing scalable tools and services using Terraform, Ansible, Python, and related technologies—enabling an intuitive, collaborative, automated, and fully auditable user experience.
Accelerate engineering velocity and standardization by establishing and evolving CI/CD pipelines, branching strategies, coding standards, and automated delivery practices.
Scale infrastructure automation through the development and management of Ansible playbooks, PowerShell scripts, Terraform, and ARM templates, improving reliability, consistency, and operational efficiency.
Drive AI adoption across ESS to accelerate software development, improve engineering productivity, and unlock measurable efficiency gains.
Operationalize automation at scale by transforming repeatable operational processes into resilient, sustainable, and measurable automation solutions.
Establish end-to-end platform support by serving as a conduit to the CTS support framework, ensuring the Automation platform is operationally resilient.
Strengthen security and governance by partnering with the ISG team to proactively address security requirements, governance standards, remediation, and compliance across ESS service offerings.