Cloud Engineer/Architect (gsk)

Job Description

Job Title: Cloud Engineer

Job Purpose:

As Cloud Engineer in GSK's Commercial Tech business unit, you'll lead the design and implementation of innovative cloud solutions that drive digital transformation in pharmaceutical marketing and sales. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect scalable, secure, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure on Azure, supporting critical business applications and data analytics platforms. This role combines technical expertise with strategic thinking, as you'll be responsible for guiding architectural decisions, optimizing cloud costs, and ensuring compliance with industry regulations. Your work will directly impact GSK's ability to deliver life-changing medicines to patients worldwide by enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of our commercial

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement complex Azure cloud infrastructure solutions

• Lead architectural reviews and approvals for new projects

• Deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on cloud platforms

• Automate cloud infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes.

• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership

• Ensure security, scalability, and compliance of cloud infrastructure

Required Skills & qualification:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.

• Overall 10 to 14years in IT

• 7+ years of experience in cloud engineering, with 5+ years focusing on Azure

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, ARM templates)

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex business requirements into technical solutions.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

• Demonstrated leadership skills, with the ability to mentor and guide junior team members and drive the adoption of best practices and innovative solutions.

Desired skills:

• Experience in Azure Databricks or Cloud Spark or Datawarehouse (Snowflake, Synapse, Redshift, EMR)

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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