Senior Compute Platform Engineer

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, meta>Why You?

  Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in data engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering or related discipline
  • 6+ years of professional experience
  • Experience with Python
  • Experience with Cloud
  • Experience with High Performance Compute (HPC)

  Preferred Qualifications:

  • Deep knowledge and use of at least one common programming language: e.g., Python, C++, 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 builds 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)

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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 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.

  People 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.

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