Senior Principal - SRE Principal, Automation & Toil Reduction
Core
Leads the engineering of automation to remove repetitive operational work and improve the reliability, resilience, and efficiency of GSK platforms.
Role type
Senior Principal SRE (Automation & Toil Reduction)
Builds
Reusable automation patterns, APIs, event-driven integrations, infrastructure-as-code modules, and self-service capabilities for diagnostics, remediation, recovery, and compliance.
Domain
Pharmaceutical/Life Sciences + Site Reliability Engineering & Operations Automation
Required skills
Python, Infrastructure as Code, SRE practices (SLOs, error budgets), Cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Observability, API design, Event-driven architecture, AIOps, Technical leadership, Mentoring
Preferred skills
AIOps, Generative AI, Agentic operations, Chaos engineering, Regulated industry experience (GxP)
Technologies
Python, Kubernetes, Cloud platforms, CI/CD tools, Observability stacks, ITSM, Orchestration platforms
Responsibilities
Own and evolve the enterprise SRE automation strategy; Establish a consistent toil taxonomy and measurement approach; Design and build secure, reusable automation for provisioning and incident management; Engineer closed-loop and AI-assisted operations; Coach engineers and grow an automation community of practice; Provide technical oversight of supplier-delivered automation.
Seniority
Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship
