PEPSICO

IT Availability Lead

Posted on: 13 Feb 2021

Plano, TX

Job Description

Job Description

Bring your passion and talent to a new role for PepsiCo Foods North America (PFNA) focused on creating solutions to bring intelligent insights from the IT services that drive the largest sector for PepsiCo.

PFNA IT Availability Lead:

As a member of the Service Reliability function for PFNA, you will focus on actions that system availability with a process-centred view. Issues with applications can occur at many layers including Data, Application, Storage, Database, Server and Network Infrastructure that may also include entire data center outages. The PFNA Availability lead has the scope and expectation to raise the bar and improve the availability of the critical systems for PFNA.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to focus on :

* Identifying availability expectations
* Understanding application and technology architectures to categorize solutions
* Defining gaps between expectation and reality
* Designing and sell-in programs to address these gaps. This effort may involve program estimation as well as cost and benefit analysis.
* Partnering with Disaster Recovery teams to improve our response to catastrophic events
* Driving ongoing tests to validate our capabilities
* Manage a small team to drive results

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Qualifications/Requirements

* Bachelors degree in IT or related field

Experience:

* 10+ years of IT development and/or architecture experience
* 5+ years of Operational experience
* 2+ years people management experience
* Wide understanding of key Pepsico processes
* Wide command of IT solutions and design including Cloud architectures and deployments
* Expert in problem management, failure analysis and single point of failure prevention
* Excellent communication skills with the ability to identify audience needs and converse at right levels

Preferred Skills:

* Entrepreneurial spirit
* Someone who is process-oriented and can logically frame a problem and solution
* As this resource will be driving work across teams, must be very effective in achieving results in a matrixed organization.

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Relocation Eligible: Not Eligible for Relocation
Job Type: Regular

PEPSICO

Purchase, NY

PepsiCo, Inc. operates as a food and beverage company worldwide. The company’s Frito-Lay North America segment offers branded dips; Cheetos cheese-flavored snacks; and Doritos tortilla, Fritos corn, Lay’s potato, Ruffles potato, and Tostitos tortilla chips. Its Quaker Foods North America segment provides cereals, rice, pasta, mixes and syrups, granola bars, grits, oat squares, oatmeal, rice cakes, simply granola, and side dishes under the Aunt Jemima, Cap’n crunch, Life, Quaker Chewy, Quaker, and Rice-A-Roni brands.

The company’s North America Beverages segment offers beverage concentrates, fountain syrups, and finished goods under the Aquafina, Diet Mountain Dew, Diet Pepsi, Gatorade, Mountain Dew, Pepsi, Propel, Sierra Mist, and Tropicana brands; and ready-to-drink tea, coffee, and juices. Its Latin America segment provides snack foods under the Cheetos, Doritos, Emperador, Lay’s, Marias Gamesa, Rosquinhas Mabel, Ruffles, Sabritas, Saladitas, and Tostitos brands; Quaker-branded cereals and snacks; and beverage concentrates, fountain syrups, and finished goods under the 7UP, Diet Pepsi, Gatorade, H2oh!, Manzanita Sol, Mirinda, Pepsi, Pepsi Black, and Toddy.

The company’s Europe Sub-Saharan Africa segment offers snack food under the Cheetos, Chipita, Doritos, Lay’s, Ruffles, and Walkers; Quaker-branded cereals and snacks; beverage concentrates, fountain syrups, and finished goods under the 7UP, Diet Pepsi, Mirinda, Pepsi, Pepsi Max, and Tropicana; ready-to-drink tea products; and dairy products under the Agusha, Chudo, and Domik v Derevne brands. Its Asia, Middle East and North Africa segment provides snack foods under the Cheetos, Chipsy, Doritos, Kurkure, and Lay’s brands; cereals and snacks under the Quaker brand; beverage concentrates, fountain syrups, and finished goods under the 7UP, Aquafina, Mirinda, Mountain Dew, Pepsi, Sting, and Tropicana brands; and ready-to-drink tea products. The company was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Purchase, New York.

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