Senior Engineer
DevOps
Senior Engineer
Poznań
Type of work
Undetermined
Experience
Senior
Employment Type
Permanent
Operating mode
Office
Tech stack
Ansible
Elastic Stack
Azure
Oracle
SQL Server
DevOps tools
Job description
Online interview
Now is an exciting time to join the R&D Tech organization and play a part in the modernization strategy to support GSK. The Senior Engineer, Established Products and Support is a key role in this mission and is accountable for leading the innovation strategies to modernize the tools and techniques used across the entire R&D portfolio increasing value, in alignment with each of the solution group strategies.
This role will provide YOU the opportunity to contribute to key activities to progress YOUR career.
These responsibilities include some of the following:
- Contribute to strategies across the established product portfolio to deliver our ‘simplify and modernise’ agenda:
- Infrastucture (cloud first, monitoring and cost control),
- Automation (backend automation to improve stability, quality and efficiency of support) and API layer (expose functionality for self-support, data for secondary reuse and to help sweat assets near end of life).
- Work with partners, in alignment with the strategies, to assess the portfolio and available tools to identify backlog items of value to be prioritised and delivered.
- Provide a technical management capability to coordinate/deliver cross portfolio initiatives.
- Provide guidance to partners about how best to carry out the ongoing operational management of the technology to achieve stability and optimum performance.
- Research and development of solutions which can be used to simplify or automate R&D Tech operations, reduce costs, and increase service levels.
- Management of critical problems impacting core business operations.
- Work with partners to manage cross portfolio delivery of security / infrastructure projects.
- Maintain technical awareness of established products core infrastructure, including elements of Server OS, Storage, Database, and domain specific expertise.
- The Engineer is a “T-Shaped” role demonstrating both depth and breadth across key engineer competencies e.g. Software Development, Testing, DevOps, Data Science/Analytics, Lifecycle Management, etc. and the ability to successfully collaborate with experts from other subject domains.
- The continuous delivery of technology solutions from product roadmaps adopting agile and DevOps principles.
- Ensures that technical delivery is fully compliant with GSK Security, Quality and Regulatory standards.
- Ensures use of relevant R&D Tech / central services and collaborating with service partners in identification and delivery of service improvements.
- Supports Product Owner and product team to deliver value continuously, fostering and maintaining close links with customers, related Solution groups e.g. Established Products and Core Tech.
- Ensures continuity of business execution i.e. operational support for relevant applications.
- Proactively develops and delivers continuous improvement/simplification of Product portfolio to enhance user productivity, increase system reliability and reduce the total cost of ownership.
- Keeps relevant technical documentation up to date in support of the lifecycle plan for audits/reviews.
- Pro-actively engages in experimentation and innovation to drive relentless improvement e.g. to UX/DQ/DI and reducing technical debt/risk.
- Provides technical direction and GSK expertise to product teams composed of GSK FTEs, strategic partners and software vendors.
- Contributes to release planning working closely with the Product Owner.
Why you?
Basic Qualifications:
We are looking for professionals with these required skills and knowledge to achieve our goals:
- Bachelor’s Degree in science, engineering, computing or relevant work experience.
- Proficiency / Knowledge of infrastructure management and monitoring tools: Elastic Stack, Ansible
- Enterprise Change experience
- Strong relationship management, influencing and communication skills
- Experience with relevant technology platforms and frameworks including cloud technologies: MS Azure / GCP, IaaS, PaaS, Kubernetes, Docker
- Database experience: Oracle, SQL Server.
Preferred Qualifications:
If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:
- Proficiency / Knowledge in some of the following areas:
- Agile, DevOps & Automation (Azure DevOps, Jira, Terraform).
- Software development (C#, Python, PowerShell), architecture design (e.g. SOA) & technology platforms/frameworks.
- Data science (e.g. AI/ML), data analytics & data quality/integrity (Power BI, Kibana).
- Testing strategies & frameworks.
- Experience of product lifecycle & service management.
- Experience in agile development and DevOps.
- Experience with ITIL.
- Experience with data structures (i.e. information management), data models or relational database design.
- Subject matter expertise R&D business process.
Why GSK?
Our values and expectations are at the heart of everything we do and form an important part of our culture.
These include Patient focus, Transparency, Respect, Integrity along with Courage, Accountability, Development, and Teamwork. As GSK focuses on our values and expectations and a culture of innovation, performance, and trust, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following capabilities:
- Operating at pace and agile decision-making – using evidence and applying judgement to balance pace, rigour and risk.
- Committed to delivering high quality results, overcoming challenges, focusing on what matters, execution.
- Continuously looking for opportunities to learn, build skills and share learning.
- Sustaining energy and well-being.
- Building strong relationships and collaboration, honest and open conversations.
- Budgeting and cost-consciousness.
Benefits:
- Career at one of the leading global healthcare companies.
- Contract of employment.
- Potential to work remotely with 4 days of presence in the main office (post COVID).
- Attractive rewards package (annual bonus & awards for outstanding performance, recognition awards for additional achievements and engagement, holiday benefits).
- Life insurance and pension plan.
- Private medical package with additional preventive healthcare services for employees and their eligible.
- Sports cards (Multisport).
- Possibilities for development within the role and company’s structure.
- Personalized learning approach (mentoring, online trainings’ platforms: Pluralsight, Business Skills, Harvard Manage Mentor, Skillsoft and external trainings).
- Extensive support of work life balance (flexible working solutions, short Fridays option, health & wellbeing activities).
- Supportive community and integration events.
- Modern office with creative rooms, fresh fruit everyday.
- Free car and bike parking, locker rooms and showers.
Check similar offers
