DevOps Engineer II

1 month ago


Collegeville, Pennsylvania, United States GlaxoSmithKline Full time
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 GSK's 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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The annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges from $130,050 to $175,950 taking into account a number of factors including work location, the candidate's skills, experience, education level and the market rate for the role. In addition, this position offers an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program which is dependent on the level of the role. Available benefits include health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and paid caregiver/parental and medical leave.
Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary t o learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. We prevent and treat disease with vaccines, specialty and general medicines. We focus on the science of the immune system and the use of new platform and data technologies, investing in four core therapeutic areas (infectious diseases, HIV, respiratory/ immunology and oncology).

Our success absolutely depends on our people. While getting ahead of disease together is about our ambition for patients and shareholders, it's also about making GSK a place where people can thrive. We want GSK to be a place where people feel inspired, encouraged and challenged to be the best they can be. A place where they can be themselves - feeling welcome, valued, and included. Where they can keep growing and look after their wellbeing. So, if you share our ambition, join us at this exciting moment in our journey to get Ahead Together.

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