Sr. Technical Engineer – SAP Platform, Basis

Location: Uxbridge Office

Category: Digital & Technology

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Tags: EUAU

Great things are happening in the Europe and Australia (EUAU) region. Each day, our 2,500 plus colleagues bring their passion to our offices, manufacturing sites, R&D center, and commercial/distributor markets across Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. We are energized by over 150 years of bringing people together with the food they love. With beloved brands Old El Paso, Häagen-Dazs, Nature Valley, Betty Crocker, Fibre One,  Latina Fresh and more, we are on a mission to become the undisputed growth leader in food for EUAU.  In a world that’s ever-changing, we look to stay ahead and seek people who share our love of food and are hungry to shape the future. 

About the Job

Join our SAP Global Basis team, a highly collaborative global group responsible for the design, automation, and 24/7 support of General Mills’ SAP infrastructure.

In this role, you’ll help ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of critical SAP platforms that power our global business. Working in a modern cloud and automation-driven environment, you’ll contribute to technical architecture, infrastructure optimisation, and system lifecycle management across SAP and its supporting applications such as Swift, Taulia, IQ NLS, and Content Server.

This is an exciting opportunity for a technically curious engineer who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges, driving automation, and working with global teams to deliver resilient enterprise systems.

What your role is

As a key member of the SAP Global Basis team, you’ll help maintain and evolve our global SAP landscape, ensuring high levels of system performance, availability, and operational excellence.

You’ll proactively manage SAP instances and HANA database clusters, identify performance issues, and implement improvements to keep systems running efficiently. You’ll also design and implement infrastructure automation using tools such as Ansible and Terraform, applying infrastructure-as-code principles within our cloud hyperscaler environment.

Working closely with architects, engineers, and external partners, you’ll contribute to technical design decisions, SAP lifecycle strategies, and future system landscapes. You’ll also play an important role in patching and upgrading SAP systems, supporting technology recovery strategies, and continuously improving operational processes.

Beyond technical delivery, you’ll collaborate across teams, mentor colleagues, and help strengthen technical standards and documentation across the organisation.

As part of a global support model, you’ll participate in periodic on-call rotations to help ensure the stability of our mission-critical platforms (approximately 3-4 weekends per year for 24x7, and 5-6 workweeks per year for 12x5).

What you will bring to the team

You bring strong experience in SAP Basis or HANA administration, with a deep understanding of enterprise infrastructure and the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues. You enjoy working in collaborative global environments and are comfortable balancing operational stability with continuous improvement and innovation.

You’ll have 5+ years of experience managing SAP landscapes, along with knowledge of technologies such as Linux or Windows Server, HANA or other relational databases, and infrastructure automation tools like Ansible or Terraform. Experience working in cloud environments (ideally GCP) and supporting NetWeaver ABAP/Java systems will be valuable.

Alongside strong technical capability, you bring excellent problem-solving skills, the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment, and the communication skills needed to collaborate across global technical teams.

What’s in it for you?  

Work with Heart - offers us flexibility that also requires partnership to ensure we regularly come together in person for those moments that help drive our business forward. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 2 days per week in the office with the opportunity to finish at 15:00 on Fridays. 
 
Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive, for this we offer free Headspace account for you and up to 5 friends or family members, ongoing activities, Employee Assistance Program and more. 
 
Bonus - Our people are at the heart of what makes General Mills great, so when goals are reached, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme. 

Health & Dental Insurances – All colleagues get the opportunity to join our insurances from day one. 

Family & Carers Leave - Every family is unique. Our approach allows every family to have the opportunity to spend quality time-off to support them from the point of birth or adoption to care, with enhanced covers. 
 

Enjoy other perks like enhanced pension contributions, subsidised canteen, access to both peer-to-peer recognition and discount platforms, 2 extra days for volunteering work, and more...

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 what’s next.

Responsibilities

About the Job

Join our SAP Global Basis team, a highly collaborative global group responsible for the design, automation, and 24/7 support of General Mills’ SAP infrastructure.

In this role, you’ll help ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of critical SAP platforms that power our global business. Working in a modern cloud and automation-driven environment, you’ll contribute to technical architecture, infrastructure optimisation, and system lifecycle management across SAP and its supporting applications such as Swift, Taulia, IQ NLS, and Content Server.

This is an exciting opportunity for a technically curious engineer who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges, driving automation, and working with global teams to deliver resilient enterprise systems.

What your role is

As a key member of the SAP Global Basis team, you’ll help maintain and evolve our global SAP landscape, ensuring high levels of system performance, availability, and operational excellence.

You’ll proactively manage SAP instances and HANA database clusters, identify performance issues, and implement improvements to keep systems running efficiently. You’ll also design and implement infrastructure automation using tools such as Ansible and Terraform, applying infrastructure-as-code principles within our cloud hyperscaler environment.

Working closely with architects, engineers, and external partners, you’ll contribute to technical design decisions, SAP lifecycle strategies, and future system landscapes. You’ll also play an important role in patching and upgrading SAP systems, supporting technology recovery strategies, and continuously improving operational processes.

Beyond technical delivery, you’ll collaborate across teams, mentor colleagues, and help strengthen technical standards and documentation across the organisation.

As part of a global support model, you’ll participate in periodic on-call rotations to help ensure the stability of our mission-critical platforms (approximately 3-4 weekends per year for 24x7, and 5-6 workweeks per year for 12x5).

What you will bring to the team

You bring strong experience in SAP Basis or HANA administration, with a deep understanding of enterprise infrastructure and the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues. You enjoy working in collaborative global environments and are comfortable balancing operational stability with continuous improvement and innovation.

You’ll have 5+ years of experience managing SAP landscapes, along with knowledge of technologies such as Linux or Windows Server, HANA or other relational databases, and infrastructure automation tools like Ansible or Terraform. Experience working in cloud environments (ideally GCP) and supporting NetWeaver ABAP/Java systems will be valuable.

Alongside strong technical capability, you bring excellent problem-solving skills, the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment, and the communication skills needed to collaborate across global technical teams.

What’s in it for you?  

Work with Heart - offers us flexibility that also requires partnership to ensure we regularly come together in person for those moments that help drive our business forward. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 2 days per week in the office with the opportunity to finish at 15:00 on Fridays. 
 
Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive, for this we offer free Headspace account for you and up to 5 friends or family members, ongoing activities, Employee Assistance Program and more. 
 
Bonus - Our people are at the heart of what makes General Mills great, so when goals are reached, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme. 

Health & Dental Insurances – All colleagues get the opportunity to join our insurances from day one. 

Family & Carers Leave - Every family is unique. Our approach allows every family to have the opportunity to spend quality time-off to support them from the point of birth or adoption to care, with enhanced covers. 
 

Enjoy other perks like enhanced pension contributions, subsidised canteen, access to both peer-to-peer recognition and discount platforms, 2 extra days for volunteering work, and more...