Opportunity brief
PepsiCo is hiring for the role of Executive Development Manager - AI Engineering!
Responsibilities of the Candidate:
- Design and implement fully automated CI/CD pipelines for agent workflows and platform components, including versioning, unit/integration tests, security scans, and promotion gates across non-prod and prod environments. (Execute/Consult)
- Implement standardized release gates (policy checks, approvals, quality thresholds) and ensure traceability of artifacts promoted across environments. (Execute/Consult)
- Provide reusable pipeline templates and reference patterns to accelerate adoption across teams while maintaining consistent governance. (Execute)
- Build IaC modules and provisioning automation for environments (tenant isolation patterns, runtime prerequisites, gateways, secrets bootstrapping), with code review and drift detection. (Execute/Consult)
- Integrate environment requests with enterprise DevX/portal APIs where applicable, enabling consistent, self-service provisioning. (Consult/Execute)
- Ensure secure configuration management practices across environments (parameterization, policy-as-code compatibility, environment parity). (Execute)
- Implement CI/CD and runtime integration patterns for SSO (SAML/OIDC), RBAC/ABAC enforcement hooks where required, and secrets management (vault/managed secrets) for pipelines and runtime components. (Consult/Execute)
- Ensure audit logs exist for pipeline executions, approvals, deployments, configuration changes, and rollback events; support evidence needs for compliance reviews. (Execute/Consult)
- Enforce software supply-chain controls (signed artifacts/images, SBOM where mandated, dependency scanning, provenance). (Execute/Consult)
- Implement safe deployment strategies (blue/green, canary, progressive delivery) and automated rollback paths; validate through drills and runbooks. (Execute/Consult)
- Partner with SRE to define SLIs/SLOs for deployment success, rollout latency, and pipeline availability; ensure observability is integrated (metrics/logs/traces). (Consult/Execute)
- Provide incident, rollback, and migration runbooks; participate in release incident triage and stabilization. (Execute/Consult)
- Mentor engineers on CI/CD best practices, release hygiene, and IaC patterns; drive continuous improvement to reduce lead time and change failure rate. (Consult/Execute)
- Decision-Making Autonomy: High-moderate — significant autonomy in CI/CD and IaC design choices within enterprise guardrails; escalates enterprise-wide security and governance policy decisions.
- Supervision Required: Moderate-low — operates with general direction from platform/SRE leadership; periodic reviews for architecture and compliance readiness.
- Complexity of Role: High — multi-tenant environments, strict audit/compliance, progressive delivery, and multiple integration points across tooling and identity systems.
- Cross-Functional Interactions: Yes — continuous interaction with platform engineering, DevX/portal, security/identity, SRE/observability, and application teams.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's/Master's in CS/Engineering (or equivalent experience).
- Proven experience building production CI/CD pipelines and operating deployment workflows for distributed systems.
- CI/CD platforms: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions (or equivalent), branch policies, PR checks, artifact/version management
- IaC: Terraform/Bicep/ARM (at least one strong), drift detection, environment modularization
- Containers/runtimes: Docker, Kubernetes fundamentals; familiarity with service meshes and ingress/gateway patterns is a plus
- Security: secrets management, supply-chain security (scanning/signing/provenance), least privilege, audit logging expectations
- Observability: integration of metrics/logs/traces; release dashboards; incident support patterns
- Release engineering: blue/green, canary, progressive delivery, rollback automation, deployment verification tests