CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 347 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ approximately 13,000 people and operate in 60 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact.
What does that mean for you? You’ll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You’ll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You’ll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model.
Key Responsibilities May Include:
- Design, engineer, and implement robust security solutions to protect cloud infrastructure, containerized applications, and data, ensuring alignment with best practices.
- Collaborate with software engineering teams to configure and maintain secure, scalable, and resilient CI/CD pipelines, incorporating security controls throughout the development lifecycle.
- Build and maintain customized integrations and dashboards for proactive threat monitoring, intrusion detection, and vulnerability scanning, ensuring timely responses to security incidents.
- Perform regular security audits, threat modelling, vulnerability scanning, and penetration testing, automating these processes wherever possible to detect and respond to potential breaches.
- Advise on risk mitigation strategies, providing recommendations to enhance security posture and addressing identified vulnerabilities across cloud environments.
- Collaborate with system administrators, network engineers, and developers to implement security best practices, including access controls, encryption, logging, and monitoring across cloud platforms.
- Configure and document security policies, access management protocols, and vulnerability management processes to ensure compliance and governance standards are met.
- Develop and implement incident response plans, ensuring quick and effective action in the event of a security breach or vulnerability exploit.
Key Responsibilities
- Automate Infrastructure: Design and maintain infrastructure using Terraform via GitOps continuous delivery workflows.
- Manage Containerization: Architect, scale, and optimize production-ready Kubernetes (EKS) clusters.
- Embed Observability: Implement comprehensive monitoring, tracing, and logging frameworks across all cloud services.
- Build Data Pipelines: Architect and maintain event-driven streaming and ETL pipelines for high-volume data engineering jobs.
- Develop Cloud Tooling: Write clean, maintainable backend code in Python, Go to build internal tools and data utilities.
- Optimize Performance: Monitor system health, debug complex distributed data systems, and continuously improve cloud reliability and costs.
Technical Skills
- Cloud Platform: Advanced expertise in AWS core services (IAM, VPC, EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda).
- Orchestration & IaC: Deep operational knowledge of Kubernetes and Terraform.
- Data & Streaming Stack: Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, and Change Data Capture (CDC) mechanisms.
- Observability Stack: Strong experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel), Prometheus, and the Grafana stack (Loki, Tempo, Mimir).
- Programming Languages: Professional proficiency in both Python or Golang.
Functional & Domain Expertise
- Data Engineering & ETL: Deep understanding of designing, building, and optimizing batch and real-time ETL/ELT pipelines.
- Event-Driven Architecture: Mastery of data streaming, message queuing, pub/sub patterns, and handling real-time data sync via CDC.
- Cloud-Native Architecture: Strong understanding of microservices design, 12-factor app methodologies, and serverless patterns.
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): Solid grasp of distributed tracing, metrics aggregation, error budgeting, and building self-healing systems.
Experience Requirements
- Total Experience: 6+ years of professional software engineering, DevOps, or data infrastructure experience.
- Cloud & Container Focus: 3+ years of dedicated experience managing AWS environments and production Kubernetes workloads.
- Data Pipeline Delivery: Proven track record of implementing Kafka clusters, configuring CDC solutions, and managing relational data layers like PostgreSQL.
- Observability Implementation: Demonstrated success setting up OpenTelemetry pipelines and building advanced Grafana dashboard ecosystems.
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with Databricks for unified data analytics and processing.
- Official certifications such as AWS Certified Data Engineer, AWS DevOps Engineer, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).
- Experience with service meshes (e.g., Istio, Linkerd) and GitOps controllers (e.g., ArgoCD, Flux).
Why Join This Team?
You will join a forward-thinking, highly collaborative engineering team that genuinely values modern engineering principles over legacy processes. We bridge the gap between bleeding-edge cloud infrastructure and high-throughput data platforms, bypassing manual processes in favor of true GitOps automation. You will have the autonomy to solve complex distributed systems puzzles, build event-driven architectures, and make a massive impact on the data velocity and operational reliability of our entire organization.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to developing a diverse workforce in which everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has the opportunity to contribute to business success while realizing his or her potential. This means harnessing the unique skills and experience that each individual brings and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.
Individuals fraudulently misrepresenting themselves as Brambles or CHEP representatives have scheduled interviews and offered fraudulent employment opportunities with the intent to commit identity theft or solicit money. Brambles and CHEP never conduct interviews via online chat or request money as a term of employment. If you have a question as to the legitimacy of an interview or job offer, please contact us at [email protected].
Skills Required
- 6+ years of professional software engineering, DevOps, or data infrastructure experience
- 3+ years of dedicated experience managing AWS environments and production Kubernetes workloads
- Advanced expertise with AWS core services (IAM, VPC, EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda)
- Deep operational knowledge of Kubernetes (EKS) and Terraform for Infrastructure as Code
- Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, and Change Data Capture (CDC)
- Experience implementing observability with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana stack (Loki, Tempo, Mimir)
- Professional proficiency in Python or Golang
- Designing, building, and optimizing batch and real-time ETL/ELT and event-driven streaming pipelines
- Experience with GitOps patterns and automating CI/CD pipelines
- Ability to monitor, debug, and optimize distributed data systems for reliability and cost
- Experience performing security activities: threat modeling, vulnerability scanning, hardening, and incident response planning
- Preferred: Hands-on experience with Databricks for unified data analytics and processing
- Preferred: Certifications such as AWS Certified Data Engineer, AWS DevOps Engineer, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Preferred: Experience with service meshes (Istio, Linkerd) and GitOps controllers (ArgoCD, Flux)
CHEP Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about CHEP and has not been reviewed or approved by CHEP.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) employer match is portrayed as competitive and supportive of long‑term savings. Retirement programs are frequently positioned as a strong part of the total rewards package.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — The Brambles MyShare plan offers company‑matched share purchases after a holding period, enhancing long‑term wealth potential. This structure can be particularly valuable for those planning to stay through the match cycle.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO, paid holidays, and paid volunteer time are consistently highlighted as strengths, with PTO often increasing with tenure. Time‑off programs are described as solid compared with typical offerings.
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What We Do
CHEP is a global leader in managed, returnable and reusable packaging solutions, serving many of the world's largest companies in sectors such as consumer goods, fresh produce, beverage and automotive. CHEP’s service is environmentally sustainable and increases efficiency for customers while reducing operating risk and product damage. CHEP’s 7,500-plus employees and 300 million pallets and containers offer unbeatable coverage and exceptional value, supporting more than 500,000 customer touch-points in 49 countries. Our customer portfolio includes global companies and brands such as Procter & Gamble, Sysco, Kellogg's, Kraft, Nestlé, Ford and GM. CHEP is part of Brambles Limited. For more information, visit www.chep.com. Reliability. Flexibility. The success of your business depends on both. With CHEP, you can be confident that you’ll get the equipment you need, when and where you need it. Our scale is unmatched, with more than 110 million pallets and over 530 service centers across North America. So you no longer need to worry about seasonal peaks or unexpectedly high demand. With our broad array of solutions and our pragmatic, roll-up-your-sleeves know-how, we give our consumer goods customers the platforms, the quality, the supply and the support they need to make more money on every unit load. Because everything just works better.
