Associate Director - Infrastructure Engineering - Pharma

Job Description

This role is responsible for the delivery of App Hosting engineering. The role provides senior leadership in all aspects for delivering the design, deployment and operations of Compute products to be consumed by the business. The App Hosting products and services are global and are the foundation for GSK application hosting while delivering support 24x7x365. The position is not only responsible for the new products and services but is also responsible for the existing Compute and Database, Storage/Backup Services use.

Responsibilities: -

- Lead a team of high performing individuals who deliver engineering to meet current and future needs for GSK. While providing both local and remote management and leadership.

- Transform the ways of working from a project-based to a product-based organization.

- Deliver the target architecture and engineering for the App Hosting products to be consumed globally by GSK.

- Work regularly with senior management to align expectations and deliverables. Deliver quality product against commitment while working in an Agile framework.

- Develop the strategic supplier to be an extension of the organization and provide elastic support for projects when required.

- Transform the IT operations team from a ticket-based organization to an intelligence operations team implementing ML/AI with the internal team and strategic supplier

- Provide leadership, direction and mentorship to engineering staff in the delivery of the App Hosting Architectural roadmap for Hosting solutions, ensuring fit-for-purpose, best-in-class, and currency.

- Oversee the delivery and engineering, ensuring that designs are scalable, resilient, extensible and secure.

- Ensure industry best practice is being followed for GSK's hosting, and regular health checks are being performed to ensure we are responding to any changes in the regulatory landscape and emerging security threats.

- Apply hardware design theories and principles, perform complex work in research, design and development of new or existing products, tools and processes required for the operation, maintenance and testing of products.

- Seek out emerging and established hosting industry trends, and makes proposals on changes, enhancements, and replacements of our existing identity tools through detailed analysis, proof of concepts and product comparisons.

- Provide escalation point to supplier when L4 support is needed

We are looking for a professional and if you have these skills, we would like to speak to you.

Qualifications

- 16- 20 years of experience.

- 10+ years of Infrastructure Engineering and Delivery experience.

- 6+ years in a role with proven success in running large compute teams supporting applications hosting.

- BSc degree, or equivalent technical qualification with relevant experience.

- Previous demonstratable excellent relationship building and communication skills.

- Broad understanding of application hosting services including but not limited to Compute, Containers, Storage/Backup, Database, Networking.

- Prior experience in successfully delivering enterprise programs across functional IT Teams.

- Proven experience with developing leaders and staff to be a high functioning team.

- Experience in working in Agile ways of working

- Experience in DevOPS tooling and automation

- Experience in developing Cloud based solutions in Azure and GCP.

- Experience with Linux, Windows and Unix Operating systems.

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