Sr. Infrastructure Engineer – Compute

Position Title:

Sr. Infrastructure Engineer – Compute

Function/Group:

Digital and Technology

Country:

India

Location:

Mumbai

Role Reports to:

Sr. Manager- Cloud & Server Platforms

Geographical Scope of the Role - Location:

Global

Percentage of travel required:

1% International

Remote/Hybrid/in-Office

Hybrid

On-call required

Yes

Shift

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 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. The awards and recognition we've received showcase our commitment to be a force for good:

·       World's Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2022

·       America's Most Responsible Companies, Newsweek 2022

· Best Corporate Citizens, 3BL 2021

·       Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality, Human Rights Campaign 2022

· 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 – India's Best Workplaces for Women, 2021

·       Top Workplaces in Brazil, 2021

·       Asia's Best Workplaces, 2021

Hungry for What's 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. We've 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 what's next.

For more details check out

General Mills India Centre

General Mills India Center (GIC) operates out of Mumbai and supports the global operations of General Mills. The center 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 MillsWorks initiative is where we bring 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: Sr. Consultant – Platform Engineer

Location: Mumbai, Hybrid

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Platform team to advance the Infrastructure and CICD operation toward scalable and cloud ready vision through automation, DevOps and Infrastructure as Code.

Role Responsibilities

·       Collaborate with Engineering, Operations & Security Teams and provide solutions that improve productivity & security.

·       Develop, implement and maintain Infrastructure using IaC tools such as Terraform, Cloud Formation or similar.

·       Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks and roles for configuration management and deployments, ensuring they are up-to-date and reusable.

·       Conduct regular audits of configuration management practices to ensure compliance with security and operational standards.

·       Automate repetitive tasks and processes to reduce manual effort and increase consistency.

·       Implement and manage authentication protocols and systems (OAuth, LDAP) etc.

·       Troubleshooting common issues related to basic Active Directory issues.

·       Drive continuous improvement in the Platform space by adopting the right technologies to support applications, in areas such as monitoring, operational task automation, continuous integration, deployments and performance tuning.

·       Investigate and resolve complex and multi-faceted issues, spanning the entire technology stack, which require working across teams and technology boundaries.

·       Drive initiatives in the Platform area, work on upgrades, obsolescence projects etc.

·       Deep understanding of security best practices for managing on-prem infrastructure within a GitOps framework, including access control, network security, and secrets management.

·       Design and implement scalable and highly available storage solutions, considering factors like performance, capacity, and cost.

·       Implement comprehensive monitoring and alerting systems to ensure high availability and performance

Must - have technical skills and experience

·       Proven experience in Platform administration(RHEL preferred).

·       Good experience in GCP and Infrastructure as a code tool like Terraform, Salt, Ansible, designing cloud solutions etc.

·       Deep understanding of IAM principles including access control models (RBAC), identity federation, single sign-on (SSO), and least privilege principles.

·       Knowhow of automating infrastructure provisioning and management using Ansible/Salt.

·       Should have Worked on tools like Terraform, Ansible, containers in a production environment for large scale data-intensive systems.

·       Good knowledge on Linux and/or Windows Administration and troubleshooting.

·       Strong experience with automation tools and scripting languages like Python.

·       Experience with authentication protocols and systems (e.g. OAuth, SAML, LDAP) & Kerberos Authentication.

·       Proven experience working in agile environments, participating & driving sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and other agile ceremonies.

·       Proficiency in at least one major public cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP ) including a deep understanding of their services and capabilities.

·       Strong skills in Infrastructure as Code using tools like Terraform to manage and automate infrastructure provisioning.

·       Experience on CI/CD pipelines using technologies like, Jenkins, Artifactory, Vault, GitHub Actions.

·       Familiarity with container ecosystem/technologies, such as, Kubernetes.

·       In-depth knowledge of Ansible for configuration management.

·       Experience working in Agile teams.

·       Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.

·       Experience on using AI to optimize storage strategies, maximizing efficiency.

·       Design data pipelines for collecting, processing, and analysing infrastructure data

·       Experience on PowerShell Workflow Automation

·       Demonstrated experience implementing and managing GitOps workflows, particularly in complex or hybrid environments with experience with tools like Argo CD, Flux, or similar.

·       Experience with various storage technologies (e.g., SAN, NAS, cloud storage) is beneficial. Specify relevant technologies used in your organization (e.g., NetApp).

·       Experience with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, or others.

·       Experience with network protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, BGP)

·       Experience with monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)

Soft Skills

·       Ability to drive Projects/initiatives.

·       Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.

·       Excellent verbal & written communication skills.

·       Track record of learning agility in mastering new technologies and adapting to a changing environment.

·       Ability to collaborate with different stakeholders.

Skill proficiency expectations

Expert level

Intermediate Level

Basic Level

·       OS System Administration:  Linux, Windows, Kubernetes

·       Authentication Protocols

·       Python or any other automation language

·       DevOps

·       Saltstack or similar configuration management tool

·       Ansible or similar automation platform.

·       Terraform

·       GCP(or any public cloud)

·       Active Directory.

·       Networking

·       Storage

·       FinOps practices.

·       AI, Agentic AI

Additional Information

Hiring Manager

Hiring Manager (EMT)

Position Details (For recruiting team only)

Position Title:

Sr. Infrastructure Engineer – Compute

Function/Group:

IS

Country:

India

Location:

Mumbai

Recommended Job Band PG:

PG 60

Job Type:

Full time

Role Reports to:

Manager – Cloud Engineering & Business Office

Geographical Scope of the Role - Location:

Global

Percentage of travel required:

1% International

Remote/Hybrid/in-Office

Hybrid

On-call required

Yes

Shift

Regular

Search tags

Terraform, Ansible, Devops, Authentication Protocols ,Python, Active Directory.

Screening Questions (For recruiting team only)

Terraform command for format check for all the modules?

Answer: Terraform fmt -check -recursive

Following is a list of some basic Terraform CLI commands:

a terraform init: The terraform init CLI command is used to prepare a working directory for other commands.

b)      terraform validate: The terraform validate CLI command is used to check whether the configuration is valid or not.

c terraform refresh: The terraform refresh CLI command is used to refresh the state file.

What is State File Locking?

Answer: State file locking is a Terraform mechanism that prevents operations on a specific state file from being performed by multiple users at the same time. Once the lock from one user is released, any other user who has taken a lock on that state file can operate on it.

What is Ansible Inventory and its types?

Static inventory file is a list of managed hosts declared under a host group using either hostnames or IP addresses in a plain text file.
Dynamic inventory is generated by a script written in Python or any other programming language or by using plugins(preferable)

What are the different components of Kubernetes Architecture

Master node and Worker node. The master node has the kube-controller-manager, kube-apiserver, kube-scheduler, etcd. Whereas the worker node has kubelet and kube-proxy running on each node.