IT Availability Lead

Company: PepsiCo Deutschland GmbH
Location: Plano
Posted on: February 26, 2021

Job Description:

Auto req ID: 218003BR
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 AF-Tech 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. AF-Tech Relocation Eligible: Not Eligible for Relocation
        Job Type: Regular
        
        
        All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.
        
        PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer: Female / Minority / Disability / Protected Veteran / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity
        
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