Cloud Engineer II

: Site Name: Cambridge 300 Technology Square, London The Stanley Building, USA - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia Posted Date: Apr 26 2024

At GSK, we want to supercharge our data capability to better understand our patients and accelerate our ability to discover vaccines and medicines. The Onyx Research Data Platform organization represents a major investment by GSK R&D and Digital & Tech, designed to deliver a step-change in our ability to leverage data, knowledge, and prediction to find new medicines.

We are a full-stack shop consisting of product and portfolio leadership, data engineering, infrastructure and DevOps, data / metadata / knowledge platforms, and AI/ML and analysis platforms, all geared toward:

• Building a next-generation, metadata- and automation-driven data experience for GSK's scientists, engineers, and decision-makers, increasing productivity and reducing time spent on “data mechanics”
• Providing best-in-class AI/ML and data analysis environments to accelerate our predictive capabilities and attract top-tier talent
• Aggressively engineering our data at scale, as one unified asset, to unlock the value of our unique collection of data and predictions in real-time

Our Cloud Infrastructure team is dedicated to designing and maintaining a robust and scalable cloud platform that forms the backbone of our organization's digital ecosystem. This team is responsible for implementing and managing core cloud services, ensuring seamless integration with other systems, and maintaining the overall reliability and availability of the platform. Through collaboration with cross-functional teams, they drive the adoption of DevOps practices, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives to facilitate a smooth and agile development lifecycle.

A Cloud Engineer II is a technical contributor who can consistently take a business or technical problem, work it to a well-defined specifications, and execute on it at a high level. They have a strong focus on metrics, both for the impact of their work and for its inner workings/operations. They are a model for the team on best practices for software development in general (and their specialization in particular), including code quality, documentation, DevOps, and testing. They ensure robustness of our services and serve as an escalation point in the operation of existing services, pipelines, and modules.

A Cloud Engineer II should be familiar with the tools of their specialization and their customers and engaged with the open-source community surrounding them - potentially, even to the level of contributing pull requests.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure solutions based on best practices, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy and operate applications and platforms in a cloud native environment.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automated infrastructure deployments.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployment processes using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
• Contribute to the creation and maintenance of documentation related to cloud architectures, configurations, and processes.
• Stay aligned with industry best practice in cloud infrastructure, continuously improving our architecture and security posture.
• Actively seek feedback, learn from experiences, and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within the team.

Why You?

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline
• 4+ years of professional experience with a Bachelors
• 2+ years of professional experience with a Masters
• Experience with Cloud Platforms (e.g., Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, AWS), including infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Experience with CI/CD implementation (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Cloud Build)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge and use of at least one common programming language (e.g., Python, C++, Scala, Go, Java, including toolchains for documentation, testing, and operations/observability)
• Experience in modern software development tools and ways of working (e.g. git/GitHub, DevOps tools, metrics/monitoring, …)
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and the larger CNCF ecosystem including experience with application deployment tools such as Helm
• Experience of agile software development environments using tools like Jira and Confluence
• Familiarity with tools, techniques, relevant to their specialization area, including engagement with open-source communities.

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Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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