Senior Cloud Engineer

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 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 Cloud 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. 

• Design and deploy scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure solutions using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services. 

• Configure and optimise 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. 

• Optimise resource utilisation 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 organisation. 

• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure-related issues and provide technical support to internal teams.

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

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software engineering or related field

• Demonstrated cloud experience (e.g., Google Cloud, AWS or Azure)

• Proven, hands on experience working with CI tools (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins or Azure Pipelines)

• Proficiency with Rust, Python, TypeScript or Go

• Solid experience with Container Orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Open Shift, Docker)

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, …) 

• 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) 

• Experience with cloud security platforms, identifying vulnerabilities and risks (i.e. Wiz, Trivy, Aqua, or Prisma Cloud)

• Deep expertise of networking concepts, technologies, and designs used with large-scale deployments on Kubernetes.

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