Sr. Manager - Cloud Platform Engineering

Cheerios
Mumbai
10-15 years
6 days ago 2 Applied
Job Description

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 Timimgs: Regular

About General Mills
We make foodthe world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Hagen-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
. 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 - 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 www.generalmills.com

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 leveraged 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 agile@scal e 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. Manager - Cloud & Platforms Engineering
Location: Mumbai
We have an exciting opportunity at a Staff+ level to provide strategic leadership and advance our SRE, DevOps, Integration team & platform engineering team toward scalable and cloud ready vision.

It is a Sr. Manager role. In this role, you will provide thought leadership & will manage multiple capabilities along with their leaders. Almost 3 to 4 groups along with their managers reports into you. Your role is more to provide strategic vision and drive organisation for the success during critical transformation and complex modernizations of Hosting, third party platforms, reporting enablement capabilities, CI/CD and Integration Platforms for cloud and lead in cloud adoption journey.

Role Responsibilities

30%

Act as manager of manager & lead functional accountability.

  • Accountable for team management activities
  • Accountable for managers & team members career pathing and growth
  • Escalation point for managers along with functional & technical deliverables
  • Support manager & team members individual development plans to build new skillsets required to thrive in a culture.
  • Responsible for Budget/ABB
  • Accountable for recruitment and onboarding

70 %

Prepare strategic vision & provide thought leadership

  • Establish strong vision for growth with global & open mindset
  • Engage, influence, and evangelize technical practices with development, operational and product groups to align technology service/solution delivery.
  • Provide thought leadership for quality accountability within the organization with well-defined processes, metrics, and goals for process quality.
  • Provide thought leadership to define or stabilized various process and best practices
  • Define & drive availability, latency, scalability and efficiency of General Mills applications development by instilling engineering reliability into our development life cycle with a focus on fault tolerant approaches.
  • Define vision for capacity planning, performance analysis, instrumentation and other non-functional systems requirements.
  • Must be able to define and report progress on strategic initiates and project level tasks to all stakeholders including senior executives, clients and use effective communication approaches with each constituency.
  • Implement metrics driven processes to ensure service quality targets are met.
  • Focus on keep the light on
  • Collaborate with relevant technical leaders or stakeholders on various capability & capacity planning to support future business requirements
  • Co-ordinate with different enterprise vendors (Google, HarshiCorp, Microsoft etc.)
  • Collaborate with different enterprise teams (Application Developers, Analysts, Solution managers, Cloud and Infra Engineering, etc).


Must - have skills and experience
. Strong leadership & people management skills
. Clarity of thought & explicit strategic intent.
. Having organization first mindset.
. Delegates decision making rights to the most appropriate individuals and work teams.
. Inspires direct reports to stretch and go beyond what they originally thought possible.
. Encourages others to set and achieve challenging goals and takes accountability for delivering results.
. Creates an environment that encourages people to take appropriate risks in development and implementation of original and diverse ideas.
. Capitalizes on the diverse perspectives and talents of the whole team in accomplishing objectives
. Excellent communication skills - ability to communicate with the team and various stakeholders (oral & written)
. Expert knowledge in all aspects of designing, developing, managing large real-time systems.
. Project and process management
. Prior successful experience as a systems performance or site/systems reliability engineer.
15+ years of relevant experience. 10+ years of management experience including managing managers


Good to have skills
. GCP certification
. Understanding of CPG industry
. Technologies - Google Cloud Platform, GITHUB Actions, Artifactory, Jenkins, Kafka, Hashicorp Vault, Terraform, APIGEE,
. Observability - Intervene & Identify the interstate of any - Dynatrace, Grafana, Splunk, App dynamics,
. Error budgeting -
. Blemless postmortam - service now, ITSM,
. DevOps
. CI/CD -Junkins, Ansible, Terraform

Skill proficiency expectations

Expert level

Intermediate Level

Basic Level

. Strong relationship management skills

. Effective abilities to solution (problem statements, options/alternatives, pros/cons)

. Ability to lead change, build partnerships, and learn quickly

. Knowledge of cloud platforms and solutions, such as Google Cloud Platform

. Past hands-on experience in SRE/ DevOps/Integration & Platforms Engineering tools

. Past external vendor relationship experience


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