ABOUT GENERAL MILLS

We make food the world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Häagen-Dazs, we’ve been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell.

How we make our food is as important as the food we make. Our values are baked into our legacy and continue to accelerate

us into the future as an innovative force for good. General Mills was founded in 1866 when Cadwallader Washburn boldly bought the largest flour mill west of the Mississippi. That pioneering spirit lives on today through our leadership team who upholds a vision of relentless innovation while being a force for good. For more details check out http://www.generalmills.com

General Mills India Center (GIC) is our global capability center in Mumbai that works as an extension of our global organization delivering business value, service excellence and growth, while standing for good for our planet and people.

With our team of 1800+ professionals, we deliver superior value across the areas of Supply chain (SC) , Digital & Technology (D&T) Innovation, Technology & Quality (ITQ), Consumer and Market Intelligence (CMI), Sales Strategy & Intelligence (SSI) , Global Shared Services (GSS) , Finance Shared Services (FSS) and Human Resources Shared Services (HRSS).For more details check out https://www.generalmills.co.in

We advocate for advancing equity and inclusion to create more equitable workplaces and a better tomorrow.

JOB OVERVIEW

Function Overview

The Digital and Technology team at General Mills stands as the largest and foremost unit, dedicated to exploring the latest trends and innovations in technology while leading the adoption of cutting-edge technologies across the organization. Collaborating closely with global business teams, the focus is on understanding business models and identifying opportunities to leverage technology for increased efficiency and disruption. The team's expertise spans a wide range of areas, including AI/ML, Data Science, IoT, NLP, Cloud, Infrastructure, RPA and Automation, Digital Transformation, Cyber Security, Blockchain, SAP S4 HANA and Enterprise Architecture. The MillsWorks initiative embodies an agile@scale delivery model, where business and technology teams operate cohesively in pods with a unified mission to deliver value for the company. Employees working on significant technology projects are recognized as Digital Transformation change agents.

The team places a strong emphasis on service partnerships and employee engagement with a commitment to advancing equity and supporting communities. In fostering an inclusive culture, the team values individuals passionate about learning and growing with technology, exemplified by the "Work with Heart" philosophy, emphasizing results over facetime. Those intrigued by the prospect of contributing to the digital transformation journey of a Fortune 500 company are encouraged to explore more details about the function through a provided Link.

Purpose of the role

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Enterprise Platform Team in Data & Analytics Squad. The individual will work with Data Architects, Data Engineers, Infrastructure Engineers, Cyber Security Engineers, Analytics Engineers, and Enterprise Teams to architect, build and deploy sustainable, secure, reliable & resilient Big Data foundation to support General Mills Data Analytics projects including associated standards, procedures & processes.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

· Partnering with Product Owners, Architects and Delivery teams to develop technical service roadmaps.

· Development of provisioning processes for Data Lake resources that follow Core Public Cloud Principles, including IaaS & PaaS.

· Development of auditable Infrastructure, Software & Data Deployment processes using IaC principal.

· Collaborate to provide technical direction on architecting, designing, building, and deploying cloud solution for Enterprise Applications and Data and Analytics teams with expertise in Cloud Platform Architecture and Engineering.

· Contribute to product milestones by solving most complex problems, through understanding dependencies in both in platform and software product(s).

· Contribute in development of Cyber Security processes including logging, audit & governance processes.

· Evaluate new cloud capabilities (applications /software/tools).

· Vendor relationships and understands industry trends enabling them to collaborate on the overall technology roadmap.

· Consults on implementing cost optimized cloud solutions (based on usage, business requirements and budget).

· Demonstrate thought leadership in establishing research positions.

· Administer, troubleshoot, and resolve failures and critical alerts.

· Must be able to operate in a fast-paced environment.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

· 5+ years of relevant IT Infrastructure/DevOps experience with 3+ years of experience with designing and implementing cloud infrastructure.

· Automation first mindset.

· Should have Worked on tools like Terraform, Ansible and extensive experience of working on Infrastructure Automation using Python and Shell scripting.

· Experience working with infrastructure as code such as Terraform, or equivalent is a plus. Proficiency in building/enabling cloud services using IaC tool Terraform.

· Experience with concepts, processes & tools required for cloud adoption including cloud security, governance, and integration.

· Experience with GCP Big Query, Snowflake and MaxCompute.

· Strong knowledge of cloud Security practices and Cloud IAM Policy.

· Expertise in deployment, building, scanning, and monitoring of the infrastructure in Cloud (GCP or Azure or AWS or Ali Cloud).

· Experience with agile techniques and methods.

· Familiarity with user expectations for cloud Databases (to be able to design user centric engineering services – e.g., provisioning self-service workflow)

· Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.

· High Availability & Disaster Recovery Processes design and implementation.

· Working knowledge on DevOps, Agile development processes, exploration and POCs

· Works well collaboratively across functional team boundaries

· Expert level

· Cloud Platform (GCP and /or Ali cloud)

· Terraform

· Python Programming

· Intermediate Level

· FinOps practices for cloud

· DevOps

· Versioning system Git

· Basic Level

· Ansible, Salt

· Cloud security tools

· GitHub Action

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

· Good understanding of Linux OS and Windows Server.

· Strong cloud programming skill with experience in API and Cloud Functions development.

· Knowledge of Server configuration and hardening.

· Proficiency in Server automation using Ansible or Salt.

· Hands-on experience with enterprise config & DevOps tools.

· Experience in Database products like Datastore, Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner & Cloud Bigtable.

· Knowledge and experience in API development, AI/ML, Data Lake, Data Analytics.

· Ability to participate in fast-paced DevOps and System Engineering teams within Scrum agile processes.

· Candidate should be flexible, reliable, can take initiative, can deal with responsibility, and have a "can do" mentality.