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You'll typically work closely alongside a Senior Principal Forward Deployed DevSecOps Engineer on the approach, coordinating with stakeholders as needed, while your own focus stays on turning that direction into working software: quickly, securely, and in a way that still holds up once it's live. As you build experience, you may take on more of that stakeholder relationship yourself, with support and guidance from leadership. Expect a lot of coding, pipeline work and cloud infrastructure, with security and testing built in as you go rather than bolted on at the end.\nMost weeks you'll be deep in one piece of the build: automating a lab workflow, wiring up a data pipeline, or getting an agentic prototype into decent shape, while staying close enough to the rest of the engagement to flag problems before they land on someone else's desk. As you get more experience, you'll be trusted with a bigger slice of the problem yourself, and eventually the whole thing.\nWe care about software that scientists actually use. Less manual lab work, fewer errors, better data, medicines and vaccines moving faster through the pipeline.\nWhy This Role Exists\nLabs & CMC is rebuilding how laboratory science and CMC work gets done, with automation, data and AI doing jobs scientists used to do by hand. Senior engineers typically lead and coordinate the relationship with the business side of that, working in close partnership with the wider team; this role exists to give them the extra hands to actually build what's agreed, while staying closely involved in how the work takes shape. You'll spend most of your time writing code, wiring up pipelines and getting things into production, picking up more ownership of the problem, and potentially of the stakeholder relationship itself, as you grow into the role and build a deeper understanding of what's needed.\nTurning direction into software: working with a Senior Forward Deployed DevSecOps Engineer to agree an approach, coordinating with stakeholders as needed, then building it properly rather than knocking together a demo.\nKeeping pace: most of what you'll build needs to land in days, not sprints, so you'll want to be comfortable shipping fast and adjusting as scientist feedback comes in.\nAutomation that actually sticks: wiring up instruments, lab systems and data platforms so what you build is still running after the project wraps up.\nGetting the data right: pairing with data engineering so whatever you're building sits on data that's actually trustworthy.\nProduction-ready by default: security, testing and monitoring go in as you build, not after something's already gone wrong.\nLeaving something behind: writing components and patterns that the next engineer, on this engagement or another one, can actually pick up and use.\nKey Responsibilities:\n\nWorking the Problem\nPartner with Product Owners, Product Managers, Business Owners and scientists to understand laboratory and CMC workflows first-hand, clarify the required outcome and identify delivery, data, security or compliance risks early.\nTranslate the agreed approach into a realistic technical plan, build rapid prototypes using representative laboratory data and incorporate scientist feedback before progressing the solution.\nBuilding and Shipping\nDesign, code and test software, integrations, automation and data pipelines, taking ownership of day-to-day technical decisions within the agreed architecture.\nDevelop successful prototypes into secure, reliable and supportable production solutions, confirming significant architectural decisions with a Senior Principal Forward Deployed DevSecOps Engineer or the relevant technical leader.\nCoordinate dependencies with internal, vendor and contract engineers, communicate delivery risks promptly and provide clear code, documentation and handover materials.\nKeeping It Secure and Reliable\nBuild continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines that enable frequent, controlled and traceable releases.\nImplement unit, integration and end-to-end testing, together with dependency scanning, secrets management and least-privilege access.\nApply relevant GxP, data-integrity, privacy and security requirements, documenting technical decisions and obtaining specialist guidance where needed.\nEstablish production observability using appropriate logging, metrics and alerting tools, and connect solutions with ServiceNow processes to support operational readiness and incident management.\nCloud Infrastructure\nProvision approved Azure or Google Cloud Platform infrastructure through the central Digital Platforms team, following established architecture, networking, identity, security and cost-management guardrails.\nDefine infrastructure using Terraform and deploy applications using Kubernetes or Helm, applying appropriate settings for resilience, scaling and cost.\nMaintain consistency across development, test and production environments by managing configuration and infrastructure changes through automated pipelines.\nContributing to Labs & CMC Solutions\nBuild and extend workflows and integrations within laboratory orchestration platforms, enabling scientists to manage and track work through connected systems.\nIntegrate laboratory instruments and systems to automate data capture and reduce manual entry.\nDevelop AI agents and workflow automation that reduce repetitive scientific and operational tasks.\nPartner with data engineers to make laboratory, analytical and inventory data accessible and trustworthy for the solutions being developed.\nBuild Generative AI capabilities that support activities such as experiment planning, information retrieval and scientific decision-making.\nBuilding With AI\nUse approved AI-assisted software-development tools and agent workflows, reviewing, testing and validating generated outputs before use.\nReuse existing skills, prompts, components and Model Context Protocol connections, and contribute identified capability gaps to the wider team.\nBuild AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines and Model Context Protocol integrations, seeking technical guidance for complex evaluation or data-access decisions.\nApply appropriate guardrails, evaluation, traceability and human review to AI-enabled capabilities, particularly where scientific, regulated or GxP-relevant information is involved.\nWorking Well With Others\nEscalate Responsible AI, data-integrity, security or validation concerns as soon as they are identified.\nContribute reusable components, agents and engineering patterns to the Labs & CMC library, supported by documentation that enables adoption by other engineers.\nSupport internal, vendor and contract engineering colleagues with technical problem-solving and knowledge sharing.\nShare delivery lessons, recurring risks and improvement opportunities with technical leaders so that they can inform broader engineering decisions.\nWhat You Bring\n\nRequired Experience:\n\n5+ years building software professionally, across full-stack, data or AI/ML work, including some time on systems that actually reached production, not just proofs of concept.\nComfortable taking a reasonably well-defined problem and shipping working software against it quickly.\nSolid Python, plus at least one of TypeScript/JavaScript, Go or similar.\nHands-on with GenAI patterns, including agents, RAG, prompt engineering and evaluation, not just familiar with the terms.\nSome experience with workflow orchestration tools (n8n, Airflow, Temporal) and working alongside data engineers.\nDevSecOps basics: CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, security scanning built into how you work rather than applied afterwards.\nCloud experience on Azure or GCP, our preferred platforms, including provisioning with Terraform and deploying with Kubernetes or Helm.\nComfortable setting up observability with Grafana, Prometheus or Elastic, and familiar with how ServiceNow fits into incident and change processes.\nUse AI coding tools such as Claude Code or GitHub Copilot daily, not occasionally.\nComfortable working closely with a more senior engineer on the shape of a problem, while owning how you build the solution yourself, and ready to take on more of that framing role as you gain experience.\nComfortable working across time zones with a distributed team.\nSome exposure to regulated environments, so security, privacy and quality considerations aren't new territory.\nPreferred Experience:\n\nA background in pharma, biotech or life sciences.\nInstrument integration, robotics or closed-loop experimentation experience.\nFamiliarity with GxP, computer system validation or data integrity requirements.\nHybrid cloud experience.\nA previous stint as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Customer Engineer or Solutions Architect.\nHave worked alongside vendor or contract engineers on a shared piece of delivery.\nContributed a pattern or component that someone else actually reused.\nEducation\n\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Data Science, Engineering or a related subject, or relevant industry experience.\n#AGTech\n#GSK-LI\n Skills\nAgile Methodology, API Management, CI/CD, Cloud Based Services, Computer Programming, Configuration Management (CM), Containerization, Database Management, High Availability (Inactive), Infrastructure As Code (IaC), Microservices Architecture, Network Security, Operating Systems (OS), System Monitors, Version Control SystemWhy GSK?\nUniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.\nGSK is a global biopharma 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We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases - to impact health at scale.\nPeople and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. 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