Senior Compute Platform Engineer

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At GSK, we want to supercharge our data capability to better understand our patients and accelerate our ability to discover vaccines and medicines. 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, metadata- and automation-driven 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, as one unified asset, to unlock the value of our unique collection of data and predictions in real-time

Our Compute Platform Engineering team is building a first-in-class platform of toolchains and workflows that accelerate application development, scale up computational experiments, and integrate all computation with project metadata, logs, experiment configuration and performance tracking over abstractions that encompass Cloud and High-Performance Computing.

This metadata-forward, CI/CD-driven platform represents and enables the entire application and analysis lifecycle including interactive development and explorations (notebooks), large-scale batch processing, observability and production application deployments.

As a Senior Compute Platform Engineer you will be a leading technical contributor who can consistently take a poorly defined business or technical problem, work it to a well-defined problem / specification, and execute on it at a high level. You will be a model for the team on best practice for software development in general (and your specialization in particular), including code quality, documentation, DevOps practices, and testing, and consistently mentor junior members of the team.

You will ensure robustness of our services and serve as an escalation point in the operation of existing services, pipelines, and workflows.

Senior Compute Platform Engineer

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and operate tools, services, workflows, etc that deliver high value through the solution to key business problems,
• Be responsible for development of key components of a hybrid on-prem/cloud compute platform for both interactive and scalable batch
• Compute and establish processes and workflows to transition existing HPC users and teams to this platform
• Be responsible for code-driven environment, applications, and container/image builds as well as CI/CD driven application deployments.
• Consult science users on application scalability to PBs of data by having a deep understanding of software engineering, algorithms, and underlying hardware infrastructure and their impact on performance.
• Confidently optimize design and execution of complex solutions within large-scale distributed computing environments
• Produce well-engineered software, including appropriate automated test suites, technical documentation, and operational strategy
• Ensure consistent application of platform abstractions to ensure quality and consistency with respect to logging and lineage
• Be fully versed in coding best practices and ways of working, and participates in code reviews and partnering to improve the team’s standards
• Adhere to QMS framework and CI/CD best practices and help to guide improvements to them that improve ways of working
• Provide leadership to team members to help others get the job done right.

Why You?

Necessary skills:

• Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline
• Team leadership or project management experience
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform
• Strong cloud expertise (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure )
• Deep knowledge and use of at least one common programming language: e.g., Python, C++, Scala, Java, including toolchains for documentation, testing, and operations / observability
• Experience with CI/CD implementations using git and a common CI/CD stack (e.g., Azure DevOps, CloudBuild, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab)
• Deep expertise in modern software development tools / ways of working (e.g. git/GitHub, devops tools, metrics / monitoring, …)

Preferred skills (not a must):

• Experience with low level application build tools (make, CMake) as well as automated build systems such as Spack or Easybuild
• Experience in workflow orchestration with tools such as Argo Workflow, Airflow, and scientific workflow tools such as Nextflow, Snakemake, VisTrails, or Cromwell
• Experience with application performance tuning and optimization, including in parallel and distributed computing paradigms and communication libraries such as MPI, OpenMP, Gloo, including deep understanding of the underlying systems (hardware, networks, storage) and their impact on application performance.
• Demonstrated excellence with agile software development environments using tools like Jira and Confluence
• Deep familiarity with the tools, techniques, optimizations in high-performance applications space, including engagement with the opensource community (and potentially making contributions to such tools)

Why GSK?

• Career at one of the leading global healthcare companies
• Company car or car allowance and yearly company shares
• Attractive reward package (annual bonus & awards for outstanding performance, recognition awards for additional achievements and engagement, holiday bonus)
• Life insurance and pension plan
• Private medical package with additional preventive healthcare services for employees and their eligible
• Sports cards (Multisport)
• Possibilities of development within the role and company’s structure
• Personalized learning approach (mentoring, online training’ platforms: Pluralsight, Business Skills, Harvard Manage Mentor, Skillsoft and external training)
• Extensive support of work life balance (flexible working solutions, short Fridays option, health & well-being activities)
• Supportive community and integration events
• Modern office with creative rooms, fresh fruits everyday
• Free car and bike parking, locker rooms and showers.

Inclusion & Diversity at GSK: 

Inclusion and diversity at GSK are key for our success. Here, you will thrive through bringing your unique experiences to both our company and the recruitment process.

We want to hear from you and support with any adjustments that you may require during the recruitment process.

Please get in touch with our Recruitment Team ([email protected]) to further discuss this today.

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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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