Senior Compute Platform Engineer

At GSK, we are committed to advancing our data capabilities to better understand our patients and accelerate the discovery of vaccines and medicines. Our Onyx Research Data Platform organization represents a significant 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 team 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.

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.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's, Master's or PhD degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline.
• 2-6 years experience leveraging deep expertise in software engineering, algorithms and cloud computing to develop, test, and operate robust services and tools at scale.
• 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.
• Deep expertise in modern software development tools / ways of working (e.g. git/GitHub, devops tools, metrics / monitoring, ...).
• Deep cloud expertise (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure ), including infrastructure-as-code tools and scalable compute technologies, such as Google Batch and Vertex.
• Experience with CI/CD implementations using git and a common CI/CD stack (e.g., Azure DevOps, CloudBuild, Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab).
• Deep expertise with Docker, Kubernetes, and the larger CNCF ecosystem including experience with application deployment tools such as Helm.
• Experience with low level application build tools (make, CMake) as well as automated build systems such as spack or easybuild.
• Application experience of CI/CD implementations using git and a common CI/CD stack (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, GitLab, Azure DevOps).
• 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.
• Contract of employment.
• Company car or car allowance and company shares.
• Attractive reward package (annual bonus & awards for outstanding performance, recognition awards for additional achievements and engagement, holiday benefit).
• 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 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 you to be you, feel good and keep growing your career. GSK is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Applicants will travel through a transparent recruitment journey that adheres to all required employment standards and regulations. Beyond this, we commit to our values of integrity and respect towards every applicant.

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