Job Description

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India is among the top ten priority markets for General Mills, and hosts our Global Shared Services Centre. This is the Global Shared Services arm of General Mills Inc., which supports its operations worldwide. With over 1,300 employees in Mumbai, the center has capabilities in the areas of Supply Chain, Finance, HR, Digital and Technology, Sales Capabilities, Consumer Insights, ITQ (R&D & Quality), and Enterprise Business Services. Learning and capacity-building is a key ingredient of our success.

Shift Timings - Regular

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 H\xc3\xa4agen-Dazs, weve 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. The awards and recognition weve received showcase our commitment to be a force for good:

• Worlds Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2022
• Americas Most Responsible Companies, Newsweek 2022
• 100 Best Corporate Citizens, 3BL 2021
• Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality, Human Rights Campaign 2022
• 100 Best Companies, Seramount 2021
• Diversity Best Practices Leading Inclusion Index, Seramount 2021
• Best Companies for Dads, Seramount 2021
• Best Companies for Multicultural Women, Seramount 2021
• Top 10 Companies for Executive Women, Seramount 2021
• Military Friendly Employer Bronze, VIQTORY 2021
• Best Place to Work, Canada, Greater Toronto, 2021
• Top 50 - Indias Best Workplaces for Women, 2021
• Top Workplaces in Brazil, 2021
• Asias Best Workplaces, 2021

Hungry for Whats Next
We exist to make food the world loves, and it shows. Our passion for people, doing good and creating delicious food has energized us for over 150 years. Breaking away from the pack is how we win, so we need your unique perspectives: your quirks, crazy ideas, rigor and insatiable curiosity to make it happen. We want people who constantly experiment, embracing the new and bold, who keep pushing to turn ideas into reality, no matter how big or small. Weve learned becoming the undisputed leader in food means continuously reshaping, reimagining and rebuilding that only happens when you surround yourself with those who are hungry for whats next.

For more details check out www.generalmills.com

General Mills India Centre
General Mills India Centre (GIC) operates out of Mumbai and supports the global operations of General Mills. The centre was established in 2005 and has grown in strength. Today, we are a vibrant and diverse team of over 1500 employees that come together to champion business services for the various global entities of General Mills in the areas of Business Operations, Analytics Consulting, Logistics, Finance, IT Development & Technology Consulting, Consumer & Market Intelligence, Sales Capabilities, Research & Development.

Digital and Technology team
Digital and Technology is the largest team in GIC, which focuses on understanding the latest and innovative trends in technology and leading the adoption of cutting-edge technologies at General Mills. The team closely collaborates with global business teams to understand business models and assess where technology can leverage to bring efficiency and disruption. Be it AI/ML, Data Science, IoT, NLP, Cloud, Infrastructure, RPA and Automation, Digital Transformation, Cyber Security, Blockchain or Enterprise Architecture, GIC Digital and Technology has something for every technology enthusiast who wants to work here. Our Millworks initiative is where we bring agile@scale delivery model to life. Here, business and technology teams work cohesively in pods as ONE team, driven by a singular mission and focused on delivering value for the Company. Our employees, who work on large technology projects of strategic importance, are the Digital Transformation change agents.

Our service partnerships and employee engagement are centered on advancing equity and strengthening communities. We believe in an inclusive culture and trust in the power of people who have a passion for learning and growing with technology. We believe in Work with Heart. Work with Heart is focused on results, not facetime. If you are passionate about the latest in technology and want to make an impact on the digital transformation journey of a Fortune 500 company, we're waiting for you.

Job Overview
Role: Consultant - SQL DBA
Location: Mumbai
The Digital and Technology team of General Mills India Centre is looking for MS SQL Server / Cloud database administrator (DBA) with Operations-oriented/DevOps skill sets to support Cloud/On Prem databases. This opportunity is in a fast-paced environment as we migrate and refactor enterprise scale databases from our on-premises datacentres to cloud environment.

Role Responsibilities

• Technical leadership for migrating existing MS SQL Server and No SQL Databases to Public Cloud.
• Migrating databases to GCP or any public cloud
• Development and ownership of migration processes, documentation, and tooling
• Expertly administer and manage mission-critical, complex, and high-volume Database Platforms in a 24/7 environment
• SQL Server administration, implementing best practices and resolving complex performance issues
• Setting up PostgreSQL, MySQL and NoSQL DBs (Mongo, Redis) its maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Adhere to cloud security standards or best practices to avoid security breaches and reduce system vulnerability.
• Scripting and Automation
• Implementation and support of SQL Server replication, AlwaysOn and Failover Clustering.
• Upgrade Database
• Database Patching
• Collaborate cross function to resolve tickets.
• Collaborate with application stakeholders.
• Administer, troubleshoot, and resolve failures and critical alerts.
• Must be able to operate in a fast-paced environment

Must - have technical skills and experience

• 2+ years of hands-on experience with leading design, refactoring, or migration of databases in cloud Infrastructures and services for at least one of Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google GCP (preferred)
• Experience maintaining and administering with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Maven, GitHub, Artifactory in a cloud environment and developing/writing scripts using advanced DevOps languages such as Python, PowerShell is a plus.
• Experience working with infrastructure as code such as Terraform, or equivalent is a plus
• Experience with concepts, processes & tools required for cloud adoption including cloud security, governance, and integration.
• Experience with SQL Server AlwaysOn and Windows clustering.
• 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)
• Working knowledge on DevOps, Agile development processes, exploration and POCs
• Works well collaboratively across functional team boundaries

Good to have skills

• Must have good understanding & hands-on experience of Linux OS and Windows Server (2012+).
• Experience working with high availability, disaster recovery, backup strategies and server tuning strategies including parameters, resources, contention, etc.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment
• Candidate should be flexible, reliable, can take initiative, can deal with responsibility, and have a "can do" mentality.

Skill proficiency expectations

Expert level

Intermediate Level

Basic Level

Data Platform (MS SQL) administration

SQL Server replication

AlwaysOn

Failover Clustering

Terraform

DevOps

COMPANY OVERVIEW

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for whats next.

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