Senior lead Cloud DevOps Engineer

About the Team:   Enterprise Systems is the backbone of GSK’s internal operations in Digital & Tech, enabling GSK Global Functions teams such as Finance, Procurement, HR, Legal, Compliance, WREF, CGA and Corporate Secretariat to run seamlessly. This team designs and delivers cutting-edge digital platforms that power critical processes, ensuring efficiency, compliance, and scalability across the enterprise.    Enterprise Systems Management & Business Operations delivers digital solutions that support Enterprise Systems running as a high-performing organisation. This team drives financial discipline, operational rigour and strategic alignment across the ES portfolio that safeguard GSK’s integrity and reputation globally. By joining this team, you’ll help shape systems that support thousands of employees worldwide, driving innovation and reliability in the tools that keep GSK moving forward. Job Purpose   The Cloud DevOps Engineer designs, builds, automates and maintains secure cloud infrastructure, CI/CD (Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery) pipelines and environment promotion processes for technology products and digital platforms. The role independently delivers complex cloud and deployment automation within approved enterprise architecture, cyber security, DevSecOps (Development, Security, and Operations) and quality guardrails.   The role ensures that cloud infrastructure, application deployments and environment configurations are repeatable, scalable, traceable and aligned with approved Validation Plans. It supports reliable movement of software and configuration across DEV, TEST, VAL (Validation environment) and PROD environments while maintaining appropriate segregation, approvals, evidence and rollback capabilities.   The Cloud DevOps Engineer works closely with Product Owners, Software Engineers, Platform Engineers, Test Engineers, Architects, Cyber Security, Quality, Validation and Service teams. The role supports cloud releases, platform integrations, infrastructure management and operational readiness and resolves complex technical issues affecting delivery or service continuity. Key Responsibilities   Cloud Infrastructure and Automation   • Design, deploy and maintain secure cloud infrastructure supporting digital products, applications, data services and integration platforms.   • Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code modules, configuration templates and deployment automation.   • Automate repeatable infrastructure provisioning, configuration, scaling, patching and environment-management activities.   • Apply reusable patterns and approved reference architectures to improve consistency across cloud environments. • Support cloud connectivity, identity, networking, compute, storage and platform-service configurations within approved architecture boundaries.   • Ensure infrastructure changes are version-controlled, peer-reviewed, tested and deployed through approved workflows.   CI/CD Pipeline Engineering   • Design, implement and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines, branching strategies and automated testing.   • Configure pipeline stages, quality gates, approval controls, security checks and deployment workflows.   • Own the secure configuration of pipelines, repositories, build agents, deployment agents and platform integrations.   • Integrate automated functional, security, configuration and infrastructure testing into delivery pipelines.   • Maintain artefact repositories and ensure software, infrastructure and configuration artefacts are controlled and traceable.   • Improve pipeline performance, reliability, maintainability and reuse across technology products.   Environment and Release Management   • Define environment promotion flows across DEV, TEST, VAL and PROD in collaboration