Description
GSK is seeking a Principal Cloud Platform Engineer - Storage/Backup to build and run Storage and Backup Services as automated, secure, self-service infrastructure.
The successful candidate will design, build, and automate platform infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and golden paths.
Key responsibilities:
- Design, build, and automate platform infrastructure
- Use AI-assisted engineering across code generation, review, and testing
- 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
- Mentor and technically lead other 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
Requirements:
- Degree in a technology or engineering discipline
- Relevant technical certifications desirable
- Hands-on platform engineering in cloud, network, or digital workplace
- Automation-first and secure-by-default engineering
- Strong experience as a Storage/Backup Engineer and/or Architect
- Deep understanding of Storage systems, data protection software, and cloud-native storage services
- 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
Desirable skills:
- Proficient in building solutions using container services
- Hands-on experience deploying container solutions
- Familiarity with multi-cloud deployments
- Knowledge of cloud cost methodology
- Knowledge of Pharma practices, GxP, Validation, Audit readiness