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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. Our Ahead Together strategy is centred on early intervention to prevent and alter the course of disease, thereby protecting people and supporting healthcare systems.\nOur diverse portfolio consists of vaccines, specialty medicines, and general medicines.\nThrough continuous innovation and a dedicated focus on scientific and technical excellence, we strive to develop and launch new, groundbreaking treatments that address critical health challenges.\nJob Purpose\nKeep GSK’s standard company introduction (Ahead Together, portfolio, innovation) unchanged above this section.\nThe Senior Principal Platform Engineer - DevSecOps / DevEx is the senior technical owner of GSK’s Modern Engineering platforms: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, GitHub Enterprise, Azure DevOps, observability and the Nuro AIOps control plane. Every D&T delivery team builds, ships and runs on these platforms, across Azure and GCP, in a GxP-regulated environment.\nYou run them as secure, self-service products. You set the engineering standard, build golden paths and infrastructure as code instead of manual configuration, and engineer reliability through SLOs, observability and automation. You build agentic AI and AIOps automation that moves the platforms towards self-healing, autonomous operations, with guardrails and human approval where it matters. You treat consuming teams as customers and measure success by adoption, speed and security, not uptime alone.\nKey Responsibilities\n Platform ownership: run each platform as a product with SLOs, a capacity plan and a lifecycle (patching, upgrades, end-of-life). Feed engineering-led items into the Product Owner’s backlog, including technical debt and upgrades, with the cost of not doing them stated. \nReliability: achieve 99.9% availability for tier-1 platforms. Lead technical incident response with Reliability Engineering, run blameless post-incident reviews and drive permanent automated fixes instead of repeated manual recovery. Close observability gaps so reliability is measured, not inferred. \nEverything as code: manage platform config, policies, pipelines and dashboards in Git through Terraform, Ansible, Helm and GitOps, so provisioning is repeatable. Use AI-assisted engineering across code generation, review and testing, and review AI-generated output before it is merged. \n Secure by default: enforce SSO, least-privilege RBAC, secrets management, signed artefacts, branch protection and supply-chain controls (SLSA, SBOM, GitHub Advanced Security) inside the golden path, not bolted on afterwards. \nGolden paths: build reusable templates, pipelines and automation content for developer platforms / automation platforms like GitHub, ADO, AAP, Azure/GCP, so delivery teams self-serve without tickets or the platform team’s time. \nAI Agentic automation: Design and code agentic AI agents for self-healing and autonomous operations, with human approval gates, guardrails and audit trails. \nCompliance: keep platforms in a validated state for GxP, SOX and data-privacy controls, and produce audit evidence automatically from the pipeline. \nToolchain rationalisation: be the technical lead for the platforms strategy, including migration plans, licence optimisation and FinOps for runners and hosting. \nDeveloper experience: measure and improve DORA metrics and platform NPS; work the toil backlog and evidence the effort removed; run onboarding, documentation and office hours. \nLeadership: set and uphold engineering standards in design and code review, applying the Platform Architect’s reference architectures and raising a case for change rather than diverging. Mentor internal and partner engineers, hold supplier-delivered work to the same standard, and manage technical relationships with Red Hat, GitHub, Microsoft and Google. \n\nEducation & Professional Qualifications\nDegree in a technology or engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience (e.g., Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronics).\nRelevant technical certifications desirable (e.g., a recognised cloud certification for AWS, GCP or Azure, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, or a network vendor certification relevant to the platform).\nArea of Specialisation\nHands-on platform engineering in cloud, network or digital workplace, covering infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD and containers where relevant.\nAutomation-first and secure-by-default engineering, with an SRE mindset covering SLOs, observability and toil reduction.\n\nExperience Required\nOverall, 15 years and Typically 6-8 years in platform, infrastructure or software engineering, including at least two years as the senior technical voice in a team.\nProven experience as a DevOps, Cloud Engineer with design experience\nProficient in building solutions using container services - AKS & GKE\nHands-on experience deploying container solutions, including Docker containers, and managing K8s deployments using YAML and Helm charts.undefined\nExperience of creating Agentic AI agents for Self-Healing & Autonomous Operations undefined\nFamiliarity with service discovery tools like Istio & Mesh undefined\nExpert in using GitHub, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps and other configuration Tools.\nPractical experience of infrastructure-as-code, for example Terraform, applied to production estates rather than proofs of concept.\nTrack record building self-service capability that other teams adopted without hand-holding.\nExperience instrumenting for observability, defining SLOs and reducing toil through automation.\nExperience with AI-assisted engineering tooling, including judgement about when generated output is not fit to merge.\nDesirable:\nCertifications in cloud platforms (e.g. Google Professional Cloud Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert).\nFamiliarity with multi-cloud deployments using cloud tools like Camunda, GitHub Action, Azure Arc, Google Anthos etc.\nUnderstanding of AKS & GKE security practices\nKnowledge of Pharma practices, GxP, Validation, Audit readiness and how to optimize delivery to accommodate these critical practices\nSkills/Background\nAutomation-first instinct, treating a repeated manual task as a defect rather than as work.\nCode review discipline, holding quality without becoming a bottleneck.\nMentoring ability with engineers of varying experience, including partner engineers outside the line.\nJudgement about when AI-generated code is fit to merge and when it is not.\nCustomer mindset toward consuming teams, who can route around a platform that is hard to use.\nWillingness to make technical debt and its cost visible rather than absorbing it silently.\n Skills\nAgentic AI, API Management, Automation Technology, Cloud Architectures, Cloud Engineering, Cloud Financial Operations, Containerization, Database Management, DevOps, DevOps Engineering, Disaster Recovery (DR), Docker Kubernetes Architecture, Edge Computing, Infrastructure As Code (IaC), Networking Concepts, Performance Optimizations, Serverless Computing, Software Engineering, System Monitors, VirtualizationWhy GSK?\nUniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.\nGSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. 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. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.\nInclusion at GSK:\nAs an employer committed to Inclusion, we encourage you to reach out if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process.\nPlease contact our Recruitment Team at  to discuss your needs.\nImportant notice to Employment businesses/ Agencies\nGSK does not accept referrals from employment businesses and/or employment agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site. All employment businesses/agencies are required to contact GSK's commercial and general procurement/human resources department to obtain prior written authorization before referring any candidates to GSK. The obtaining of prior written authorization is a condition precedent to any agreement (verbal or written) between the employment business/ agency and GSK. In the absence of such written authorization being obtained any actions undertaken by the employment business/agency shall be deemed to have been performed without the consent or contractual agreement of GSK. GSK shall therefore not be liable for any fees arising from such actions or any fees arising from any referrals by employment businesses/agencies in respect of the vacancies posted on this site.\nIt has come to our attention that the names of GlaxoSmithKline or GSK or our group companies are being used in connection with bogus job advertisements or through unsolicited emails asking candidates to make some payments for recruitment opportunities and interview. Please be advised that such advertisements and emails are not connected with the GlaxoSmithKline group in any way.\nGlaxoSmithKline does not charge any fee whatsoever for recruitment process. 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