Senior Cloud Engineer

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, AWS, Azure, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, Data Analysis, DevOps, Git, Github, GitLab, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Infrastructure as code, Java Programming, Jenkins, Leadership Skill, Machine learning techniques, Metadata, Python Programming, Scala Programming

Job Description

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 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 to unlock the value of our combined data assets and predictions in real-time

A Senior Engineer is a leading technical contributor who can consistently take a loosely defined business or technical requirement, architect and build it to a well-defined specification 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 have a strong focus on metrics, both for the impact of their work and for its inner workings / operations.

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

Key responsibilities for the Senior Cloud Engineer include:

• Design and deploy scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure solutions using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services.
• Configure and optimize network architecture, including VPCs, subnets, firewalls, and load balancers, to ensure high availability, security and performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable and efficient cloud infrastructure designs.
• Provides input into the roadmaps of teams representing upstream dependencies to help improve the overall program of work
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployment processes using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
• Stay updated with the latest trends and best practices in cloud infrastructure and contribute to the continuous improvement of our cloud infrastructure architecture.
• Optimize resource utilization and cost management while maintaining compliance standards.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior team members, fostering a collaborative and knowledge-sharing culture within the organization.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure-related issues and provide technical support to internal teams

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software engineering or related field
• 5+ cloud experience (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes)
• 5+ years of experience with CI/CD implementations, Jenkins, Gitlab

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Deep knowledge and use of at least one common programming language: e.g., Python, Scala, Java, including toolchains for documentation, testing, and operations / observability
• Deep expertise in modern software development tools / ways of working (e.g. git/GitHub, devops tools, metrics / monitoring, …)
• Cloud experience (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes), including infrastructure-as-code
• Application experience of CI/CD implementations using git and a common CI/CD stack (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab, Azure DevOps)
• Demonstrated excellence with agile software development environments using tools like Jira and Confluence
• Deep familiarity with the tools, techniques, etc relevant to their specialization area, including engagement with the open-source community (and potentially making contributions to such tools)