Job Summary

The Principal Cloud Foundations Engineer - Full Stack builds and runs the Internal Hosting Portal that allows application teams across GSK to provision and manage Cloud resources in a self-service manner. The Hosting Portal is a custom-built web application using a modern TypeScript tech stack based on TypeScript. The full stack engineer sets the engineering standard within that platform, mentors the engineers around them, and treats the teams who consume the platform as customers. The role works through automated software deployment rather than manual configuration, uses AI-assisted engineering across code generation, review and testing, and engineers reliability in by defining SLOs, instrumenting for observability and automating away toil.

This is the senior hands-on engineering role in the platform team, insourced at the grades covered by this description while engineering at G7b and below is delivered through managed service partners, so the role integrates and assures partner components as well as building. Engineering roadmap and direction sit with the Engineering Director, reference architecture and standards sit with the Platform Architect, backlog order sits with the Product Owner, and deep reliability engineering sits with the Site Reliability Engineer deployed from Reliability Engineering Operations.

Responsibilities

- Design, build and automate platform infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and golden paths, so that provisioning is repeatable rather than reconstructed each time.
- Use AI-assisted engineering across code generation, review and testing to accelerate delivery and raise quality, reviewing AI-generated output before it is merged.
- Build self-service capabilities and paved roads that reduce friction for consuming teams, so adoption does not depend on the platform teams availability.
- Engineer for reliability by defining SLOs, instrumenting platforms for observability and automating to reduce toil, working with the Site Reliability Engineer on standards.
- Set and uphold engineering standards, secure-by-default practices and code quality within the platform, and hold them in code review.
- Contribute to incident response and drive permanent automated fixes with Reliability Engineering rather than repeating manual recovery.




- Mentor and technically lead other engineers, including partner engineers, linking engineering work to platform OKRs and outcomes.
- Integrate and assure supplier or managed-service components, holding partner-delivered engineering to the same standards and code quality as internal work.
- Work the platforms manual task and toil backlog, converting identified candidates into automation and evidencing the effort removed.
- Close observability coverage gaps for the platform, so that reliability can be measured rather than inferred.
- Contribute engineering-led items to the platform backlog held by the Product Owner, including technical debt, upgrade and automation work, with the cost of not doing them stated.
- Apply the reference architectures and patterns set by the Platform Architect, and raise a case for change rather than diverging locally.

Skilled Qualifications

- Degree in a technology or engineering discipline, or equivalent practical experience (e.g., Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electronics).
- Relevant technical certifications desirable (e.g., a recognised cloud certification for AWS, GCP or Azure, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, or a network vendor certification relevant to the platform).

Area of Specialisation

- Hands-on platform engineering in cloud, network or digital workplace, covering infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD and containers where relevant.

- Automation-first and secure-by-default engineering, with an SRE mindset covering SLOs, observability and toil reduction.

Experience Required

- Overall, 15 years and Typically 6-8 years in cloud, infrastructure or software engineering, including at least two years as the senior technical voice in a team.
- Excellent knowledge and hands on experience with HTML5, CSS3 (including preprocessors) and TypeScript (ES6+).
- Excellent knowledge and hands on experience with React and NextJS




- Hands-on experience with GraphQL and relevant tooling such as Yoga, Prisma, and Apollo Client
- Good understanding of bundlers and compilers such as Webpack, TS-Node, Rspack and Babel.
- Previously developed schema-based forms either custom or based on a library such as react-hook-form or Formik, including data validator libraries such as Yup, Zod or JOI.
- Expertise with CSS grid systems, media queries, flex and other layout techniques and responsive user interface components.
- Knowledge of modern authentication and authorization mechanisms such as OAuth v2 or SAML and JSON Web Token and libraries such as MSAL.
- Strong experience with test automation (unit integration) tools such as Jest and Cypress.

Desirable

- Familiar with building React web applications based on a Micro Frontend using Module Federation or Single SPA.
- Developed REST APIs based on NodeJS (ExpressJS).
- Experience of building and deploying web applications through CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.
- Knowledge of deploying, managing and monitoring web applications in a Cloud environment such as Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.
- Previously worked in a central IT team within a regulated environment such as the Pharmaceutical or Finance industry.

Skills/Background

- Automation-first instinct, treating a repeated manual task as a defect rather than as work.
- Code review discipline, holding quality without becoming a bottleneck.
- Mentoring ability with engineers of varying experience, including partner engineers outside the line.
- Judgement about when AI-generated code is fit to merge and when it is not.
- Customer mindset toward consuming teams, who can route around a platform that is hard to use.
- Willingness to make technical debt and its cost visible rather than absorbing it silently.

Skills

- API Management
- Automation Technology
- Cloud Architectures
- Cloud Deployment
- Cloud Financial Operations
- Component Libraries
- Containerization
- Database Management
- DevOps
- Disaster Recovery (DR)
- Edge

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📌 Senior Principal Cloud Foundations Engineer - Full Stack (Bengaluru)
🏢 GSK India
📍 Bengaluru