Compute Platform Engineer II Full Time

Camden, London
GSK
Site Name: Seattle Sixth Ave, Cambridge 300 Technology Square, London The Stanley Building, San Francisco, Upper Providence
Posted Date: Mar

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 (HPC). 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.

A Compute Platform Engineer II is a 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. They have a strong focus on metrics, both for the impact of their work and for its inner workings/operations. They are a model for the team on best practices for software development in general (and their specialization in particular), including code quality, documentation, DevOps, and testing. They ensure robustness of our services and serve as an escalation point in the operation of existing services, pipelines, and workflows.

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

Key Responsibilities:

Designs, builds, and operates tools, services, workflows, etc that deliver high value through the solution to key business problems.
Responsible for development of key components of a hybrid on-prem/cloud compute platform for both interactive and scalable batch computing and establishing of processes and workflows to transition existing HPC users and teams to this platform.
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 optimizes design and execution of complex solutions within large-scale distributed computing environments.
Produces 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
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 helps to guide improvements to them that improve ways of working.

Why You?

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in Data Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering or related discipline
4+ years of professional experience with a Bachelors
2+ years of professional experience with a Masters
Experience with Python
Experience with Cloud
Experience with High Performance Compute (HPC)

Preferred Qualifications:

Knowledge and use of at least one common programming language: e.g., Python, C++, Scala, Java, including toolchains for documentation, testing, and operations / observability
Expertise in modern software development tools / ways of working (e.g. git/GitHub, devops tools, metrics / monitoring, )
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)
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)

The annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges from $130,050 to $175,950 taking into account a number of factors including work location, the candidate’s skills, experience, education level and the market rate for the role. In addition, this position offers an annual bonus and eligibility to participate in our share based long term incentive program which is dependent on the level of the role. Available benefits include health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and paid caregiver/parental and medical leave.

Please visit GSK US Benefits Summary to learn more about the comprehensive benefits program GSK offers US employees.

Why Us?

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 organization where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of 2030.

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 workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive as set out in our Equal and Inclusive Treatment of Employees policy. We’re committed to being more proactive at all levels so that our workforce reflects the communities we work and hire in, and our GSK leadership reflects our GSK workforce.

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