# Principal SAP Infrastructure Engineer

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

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## Description

The Principal SAP Infrastructure Engineer builds and runs both the Cloud and On-Prem SAP Infrastructure 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, 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 held by the Product Owner.

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 8-10 years in cloud and SAP infrastructure.

- Proven experience in cloud infrastructure management, preferably with ERP systems.

- Strong knowledge of SAP hosted on either Azure or Google Cloud.

- Strong knowledge of SAP hosted on VMware.

- 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:

- Certifications in cloud platforms.

- Knowledge of networking, security, and compliance in cloud environments.

- Knowledge of Pharma practices, GxP, Validation, Audit readiness and how to optimize delivery to accommodate these critical practices

## Skills

### Required
- API Management
- Application Infrastructure
- Automation
- Automation Technology
- Cloud Architectures
- Cloud Financial Operations
- Containerization
- Database Management
- DevOps
- Disaster Recovery (DR)
- Edge Computing
- Infrastructure As Code (IaC)
- Networking Concepts
- Performance Optimizations
- Platform Development
- Reliability Engineering
- SAP Infrastructure
- Serverless Computing
- System Monitors
- Virtualization

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