Director of DevOps Engineering, GSK

$165-185k

LTI plus 18% annual bonus

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Jenkins

Ansible

Azure

Prometheus

Grafana

JIRA

Confluence

Senior and Expert level

Boston

London

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

2-3 days a week in office

Building a cutting-edge digital and tech team.

Job no longer available

Building a cutting-edge digital and tech team.

1001+ employees

HealthcareArtificial IntelligenceBig dataMachine LearningCyber SecurityData IntegrationDevOpsCloud ComputingBiotechnology MedTech

Job no longer available

$165-185k

LTI plus 18% annual bonus

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Jenkins

Ansible

Azure

Prometheus

Grafana

JIRA

Confluence

Senior and Expert level

Boston

London

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

2-3 days a week in office

1001+ employees

HealthcareArtificial IntelligenceBig dataMachine LearningCyber SecurityData IntegrationDevOpsCloud ComputingBiotechnology MedTech

Company mission

At GSK, we use technology to deliver what matters most, better and faster. Whether it’s life-saving medicines or life-enhancing products, Tech at GSK helps scale and accelerate our expertise.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software engineering or related field
3+ years of experience with recruiting, managing and developing engineers.
Experience with agile planning and execution processes for software and/or infrastructure deliver
Deep knowledge of modern DevOps and site reliability engineering practice, including DevOps stacks (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI, …), Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, …), metrics and observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, …), and developer tools (IDE’s, Jira/Confluence).
Cloud experience (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Kubernetes), including infrastructure-as-code.

What the job involves

Build, lead, develop, and retain a team of world-class DevOps engineers.
Build a DevOps and observability platform that focuses on Infrastructure-as-Code, DevOps-driven workflows, and containerization, and helps put site reliability engineering at the core of every running Onyx service.
Serve as architect for the DevOps platform and contribute technical expertise to partner teams across Onyx to ensure a consistent, powerful, and professionally operated overall capability.
Partner with leads of Infrastructure and downstream Platforms teams to architect an engagement model and optimal ways of working with the product management teams.
Design innovative strategy beyond the current enterprise way of working to create a better environment for the end users, and able to construct a coordinated, stepwise plan to bring others along with the change curve.
Standard bearer for proper ways of working and engineering discipline, including the QMS framework and CI/CD best practices and proactively spearhead improvement within their engineering area.
Serve as a technical thought leader and champion: e.g., speak at industry events, promote GSK as an attractive place to build a career and thrive as a data platform engineer, act as a key knowledge holder for the Onyx organization.

Our take

GSK Tech is set to build a suite of next-generation platforms for data- and prediction-driven drug discovery in support of GSK's Research and AI/ML organizations, and an industry-leading data engineering function in support of AI/ML and Genomic Sciences.

GSK’s ambitions go far past the data lake: they’re building a comprehensive data and machine learning ecosystem that can speak to the customers in their own scientific and technical language and semantics. Enabled by GSK Knowledge Graph, powered by machine learning, and underpinned by natural language processing, GSK's vision is for accessibility to data (and, importantly, the knowledge it represents). GSK wants to increase this tenfold, taking mere moments to find, access, and integrate the right information.

The creation of GSK Tech shows GSK's commitment to making a major investment in changing how we think about data in the research space, and levelling up the data experience for GSK's researchers, scientists, computational scientists, AI/ML Engineers, and ultimately decision-makers. As of 2024, GSK is putting more energy into its Cyber Security features, thus widening its market reach.

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Insights

45% female employees

6% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.1)

Company

Company benefits

An annual bonus based on company performance
Access to healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, savings programmes, time off and childcare support
Employee recognition programmes which reward exceptional achievements
Long term incentives through share ownership link your rewards to our longer term performance
Coaching, mentoring and formal training programmes
Plenty of opportunities for open conversations with people who can help to shape your career
A range of health and wellbeing programmes and support services to help employees understand how to feel healthier, happier and more energised at work and at home

Company HQ

Brentford, UK

Leadership

Luke Miels

(CEO)

Luke became CEO on Jan 1, 2026, after serving as CEO designate since Sept 2025. He joined GSK in 2017 as Chief Commercial Officer, responsible for our commercial portfolio of medicines and vaccines.

Shobie Ramakrishnan

(Chief Digital and Technology Officer)

Has a broad experience in biotech and hi-tech companies. Has led Digital and Technology for GSK’s Global Commercial organisation, transforming the company’s capabilities in digital, data & analytics.

Michael Elmore

(SVP & Global Chief Information Security Officer)

Experienced in building and leading tech teams across cyber security, IT infrastructure, application development, and more. A trusted advisor to VCs and startups focusing on cybersecurity advancements.

Shubha Chaudhari

(SVP, Development Digital & Tech)

Previously worked at Novartis in several roles, including Head of Clinical Informatics, Global Head of Development Informatics, and Head of Digital Transformation.

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