DevOps Engineer II

Reference #: 401135
The Onyx Research Data Platform organization represents a major investment by GSK R&D and Digital & Tech, designed to deliver a step-change in our ability to leverage data, knowledge, and prediction to find new medicines. We are a full-stack shop consisting of product and portfolio leadership, data engineering, infrastructure and DevOps, data / metadata / knowledge platforms, and AI/ML and analysis platforms, all geared toward:
Building a next-generation data experience for GSKs scientists, engineers, and decision-makers, increasing productivity, and reducing time spent on “data mechanics”
Providing best-in-class AI/ML and data analysis environments to accelerate our predictive capabilities and attract top-tier talent
Aggressively engineering our data at scale to unlock the value of our combined data assets and predictions in real-time

A DevOps Engineer is a technical contributor who enjoys solving complex problems as part of a collaborative and agile team. We are seeking engineers who are passionate about technology and learning, as well as supporting DevOps tooling to enable other engineering teams to operate with a DevOps ethos. As a DevOps Engineer in Onyx, you will be part of a team that is driving change at GSK.

Key responsibilities for the DevOps Engineer II include:
Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering teams to build new features and capabilities for our services
Propose and define good engineering practices to be adopted by the organization
Work in a multi-disciplined engineering team to deliver capabilities that empower other platform and engineering teams
Continuously and proactively identify and develop areas to improve monitoring/alerting, reliability, performance, and automation
Develop automated solutions and integrations to enable fluid self-service flows
Write, review, and maintain code written in JavaScript/TypeScript (Node), golang, and python
Automate away the process of managing capacity, safely deploying software, and mitigating system failures
Continuously learn by staying up to date on the latest technology trends in our space, feed recommendations back to the teams with RFCs (Request for Comment)
Why you?

Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:
Masters 2 years of experience or Bachelors 4 years of with professional software engineering experience
2 years of Cloud Experience (GCP, Azure, AWS)
2 years of experience with build and deployment tools (Github Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps)

Preferred Qualifications:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
1 year of experience managing and/or deploying to Kubernetes clusters
Proficiency with at least one common programming language: e.g., Python, Ruby, JavaScript/TypeScript, go, including toolchains for documentation, testing, and operations / observability
Experience with non-imperative programming paradigm
Experience in designing highly available and scalable systems, implementing performance monitoring on those systems

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