# Principal Cloud Platform Engineer - DB

**Company**: GlaxoSmithKline
**Location**: Bengaluru Luxor North Tower
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

GSK is seeking a Principal Cloud Platform Engineer - DB to build and run Database Services as automated, secure, self-service infrastructure. The successful candidate will set engineering standards, mentor engineers, and treat consuming teams as customers.

**Key Responsibilities:**

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

- Use AI-assisted engineering across code generation, review, and testing

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

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

- Mentor and technically lead other engineers, including partner engineers

- Integrate and assure supplier or managed-service components

- Work on the platform's manual task and toil backlog

- Close observability coverage gaps for the platform

- Contribute engineering-led items to the platform backlog

- Apply reference architectures and patterns set by the Platform Architect

**Education & 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

**Related Experience Required:**

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

- Strong experience as Database Engineer and/or Architect

- Deep understanding of Relational Database technologies

- Understanding of modern database & storage technologies

- Experience as a DBA

- Practical experience of infrastructure-as-code

- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, and with containers and Kubernetes

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

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

- Experience with AI-assisted engineering tooling

**Desirable:**

- Proficient in building solutions using container services

- Hands-on experience deploying container solutions

- Familiarity with multi-cloud deployments

- Familiarity and hands-on with Traditional Database Products

- Knowledge of cloud cost methodology

- Knowledge of Pharma practices, GxP, Validation, Audit readiness

**Skills/Background:**

- Automation-first instinct

- Code review discipline

- Mentoring ability with engineers of varying experience

- Judgement about when AI-generated code is fit to merge

- Customer mindset toward consuming teams

- Willingness to make technical debt and its cost visible

## Skills

### Required
- API Management
- Automation Technology
- Cloud Architectures
- Cloud Financial Operations
- Containerization
- Database Administration
- Database Architecture
- Database Management
- DevOps
- Disaster Recovery (DR)
- Edge Computing
- Infrastructure As Code (IaC)
- Networking Concepts
- NoSQL
- Performance Optimizations
- Serverless Computing
- System Monitors
- Times Series
- Vector Databases
- Virtualization

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