Sr. Infrastructure Engineer – Data Platforms

About the job

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 another and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.​ 
 OVERVIEW The Digital and Technology team of General Mills India Centre is looking for MS SQL Server / Cloud database administrator (DBA) with Operations-oriented 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 datacenters to cloud environment. Have experience operating in a fast-paced, complex, and multi-platform environment.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

- 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 (MongoDB) 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 AlwaysOn and Failover Clustering.

- Database support lifecycle activities.

- Collaborate cross function to resolve tickets.

- Collaborate with application stakeholders.

- Have exposure of working within Agile framework.

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

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

- 9+ 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 Ansible, Puppet, GitHub and 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 proceses, exploration and POCs

- Works well collaboratively across functional team boundaries

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 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. 
 ELIGIBILITY Applicants must meet minimum age qualifications in the country in which the job is located.