Senior Infrastructure Engineer

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The Onyx Research Data Tech organization is GSK’s Research data ecosystem which has the capability to bring together, analyze, and power the exploration of data at scale. We partner with scientists across GSK to define and understand their challenges and develop tailored solutions that meet their needs. The goal is to ensure scientists have the right data and insights when they need it to give them a better starting point for and accelerate medical discovery. Ultimately, this helps us get ahead of disease in more predictive and powerful ways.

Onyx Is 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
  
  

A Senior Infrastructure Engineer is a leading technical contributor who can consistently take a loosely defined business or technical requirement, architect and build it to a well-defined specification, and execute on it at a high level. They have a strong focus on metrics, both for the impact of their work and for its inner workings / operations.

A Senior Infrastructure Engineer should be deeply familiar with the tools of their specialization and of their customers and engaged with the open-source community surrounding them - potentially, even to the level of contributing pull requests.

teams to ensure that we have the right infrastructure components to power our platforms and services reliably and securely.

Key Responsibilities For The Senior Infrastructure Engineer Include

• Broad knowledge of Linux systems administration, storage (Weka/ZFS) and network configuration
• Design, build, and operate tools, services, workflows etc that deliver high value, through the solution to key business problems
• Work to transition from classical HPC ways of working to a modern "private cloud" approach that focuses on Infrastructure-as-Code, DevOps-driven workflows, and containerization, and helps put site reliability engineering and automation at the core of every running Onyx service
• Implement and maintain observability stack and processes for infrastructure (Grafana, Prometheus, InfluxDB) across all of HPC and other computing components
• Contribute to the design and implementation of transparent cloud-bursting from on-prem infrastructure
• Own the schedulers (e.g.: Slurm) and processes that continually improve users' access to resources in the most efficient way
• Provide input into the roadmaps of teams representing upstream dependencies, to help improve the overall program of work
• Fully versed in coding best practices and ways of working, and participates in code reviews/partnering to improve the team's standards
• Design innovative strategy beyond the current enterprise way of working to create a better environment for the end users, and be able to construct a coordinated, stepwise plan to bring others along with the change curve
• Provide leadership to team members to help others get the job done right
  
  

Why you?

Basic Qualifications

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 6 years of relevant work experience
• Experience with troubleshooting and maintaining enterprise Linux hardware
• 3 years of experience in designing, managing and optimizing parallel file systems, Slurm and HPC environments.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Deep knowledge and use of at least one common programming and scripting language: e.g., Python, Bash, including toolchains for documentation, testing, and operations / observability
• Demonstrated excellence with agile software development environments using tools like Jira and Confluence
• Deep expertise in modern software development tools / ways of working (e.g. git/GitHub, DevOps tools, metrics / monitoring…)
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD implementations using git and a common CI/CD stack (e.g., GitLab, Azure DevOps)