Senior Principal - Platform Engineer LAN
GSK (company site, opens in a new tab)15+ yrsBengaluruOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 45–75 LPA
Posted 12h ago
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About This Role
- Design, build, automate, and maintain GSK's local area network and campus switching platform using infrastructure-as-code and AI-assisted engineering.
- Engineer platform reliability by defining SLOs, ensuring observability, automating toil reduction, and integrating supplier components with high-quality standards.
- Mentor and lead engineers, set engineering standards, contribute to incident response and backlog prioritization, ensuring self-service capability for internal customers.
Minimum Requirements
- Minimum 15 years of overall experience with 6-8 years in platform, infrastructure, or software engineering, including at least 2 years as a senior technical lead.
- Hands-on expertise in enterprise local area networks and campus switching with deep knowledge of routing, switching, segmentation, resilience, and complex fault diagnosis.
- Proficient in infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform), CI/CD pipelines, containers/Kubernetes, and AI-assisted engineering tooling.
- Degree in technology or engineering discipline or equivalent practical experience; relevant platform or cloud certifications desirable.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Senior-level hands-on platform engineer with proven experience driving automation-first, secure-by-default infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and AI-assisted tools.
- Experienced mentor and technical leader who maintains high engineering standards through code review and drives adoption of self-service platforms by internal teams without hand-holding.
- Strong background in network engineering within enterprise environments, comfortable collaborating cross-functionally with reliability engineers, architects, and product owners.