# Principal Cloud Platform Engineer - IaaS

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

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## Description

GSK remains committed to achieving bold commercial ambitions for the future. By 2031, we aim to deliver £40 billion in annual sales, leveraging our existing strong performance momentum to significantly increase our positive impact on the health of billions of patients globally.

The Principal Cloud Platform Engineer - IaaS builds and runs the IaaS Platform and Services as automated, secure, self-service infrastructure, sets the engineering standard within that platform, mentors the engineers around them, and treats the teams who consume the platform 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 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, including partner engineers

- Integrate and assure supplier or managed-service components

- Work the platform's manual task and toil backlog, converting identified candidates into automation

- 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

**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 DevOps, Cloud Engineering / Architecture

- Deep expertise in Windows Server and/or Linux Operating Systems

- Proficient in building solutions using container services

- Practical experience of infrastructure-as-code

- Familiarity with multi-cloud deployments

- 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

**Benefits**

- Competitive salary

- Opportunities for growth and development

- Collaborative and inclusive work environment

## Skills

### Required
- API Management
- Automation Technology
- CI/CD
- Cloud Architectures
- Cloud Financial Operations
- Containerization
- Database Management
- DevOps
- DevSecOps
- Disaster Recovery (DR)
- Edge Computing
- GitHub Actions
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Infrastructure As Code (IaC)
- Networking Concepts
- Performance Optimizations
- Serverless Computing
- System Monitors
- Terraform (Software)
- Virtualization

### Nice to have
- Azure
- AWS
- GCP
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Camunda
- GitHub Action
- Azure Arc
- Google Anthos

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