# Principal Engineer

**Company**: GSK
**Location**: Bengaluru
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Principal Engineer builds and runs GSK's shared network capabilities such as DNS, DHCP and IP address management platform as automated, secure, self-service infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

- Design, build and automate platform infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and golden paths

- Use AI-assisted engineering across code generation, review and testing to accelerate delivery and raise quality

- Build self-service capabilities and paved roads that reduce friction for consuming teams

- Engineer for reliability by defining SLOs, instrumenting platforms for observability and automating to reduce toil

- Set and uphold engineering standards, secure-by-default practices and code quality within the platform

- Contribute to incident response and drive permanent automated fixes with Reliability Engineering

- Mentor and technically lead other engineers

- Integrate and assure supplier or managed-service components

- Work the platform's manual task and toil backlog

- Close observability coverage gaps for the platform

- Contribute engineering-led items to the platform backlog

- Apply the reference architectures and patterns set by the Platform Architect

Professional Qualifications:

- Degree in a technology or engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience

- Relevant technical certifications desirable

Area of Specialisation:

- Hands-on platform engineering in cloud, network or digital workplace

- Automation-first and secure-by-default engineering, with an SRE mindset

Experience Required:

- Overall 15 years and typically 6-8 years in platform, infrastructure or software engineering

- Deep hands-on depth in the relevant platform domain

- Practical experience of infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and containers

- Track record building self-service capability that other teams adopted without hand-holding

- Experience instrumenting for observability, defining SLOs and reducing toil through automation

## Skills

### Required
- AI Programming
- Automation
- Cloud Based Services
- Computer Programming
- Configuration Management (CM)
- Data Distribution Service (DDS)
- Data Management and Integration (DMI)
- IP Address Management (IPAM)
- Leadership
- Load Balancers
- Network Design
- Operational Technology (OT)
- Packet Switching
- Security Engineering
- Security Management
- Software-Defined Networking Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
- System Monitors
- Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI)
- Wireless System Design
- Zero Trust Architecture

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