IT Consultant, Infrastructure Developer (GSK IT)

Job description

Details:
Key responsibilities:

• Responsible for coordinating the delivery of AIX infrastructure development and testing in alignment with the engineering strategy,
• Provide oversight and tracking of the development and testing process, including delegation of responsibilities to all involved personnel required to ensure successful delivery of the release,
• Ensure that all product changes are analyzed, agreed, developed and delivered in accordance to the pre-agreed AIX infrastructure roadmap/milestones,
• Manage risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality,
• Coordinate work between different teams at geographical dispersed locations throughout the development and testing process,
• Act as a single point of contact for any development and testing related communication,
• Build strong relationships with internal IT service groups,
• Develop and communicate detailed plans, GSAP AIX and SAP HANA infrastructure roadmaps and set delivery expectations with key stakeholders. Update and communicate development and testing status. Escalate issues in a timely manner where required,
• Communicate release details and schedules to the stakeholders as required,
• Develop metrics and KPIs, continually assessing the efficiency and effectiveness of the development and testing process,
• Coordinate Continual Service Improvement Process for development and testing service and ensure service evolution is in line with other corporate directions,
• Produce and manage formal test plans, reports and release certificates,
• Maintains a engineering repositories and manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists
• Interacts extensively with the functional team leads in the estimation cycle, identification of inter-team dependencies, delivery plan validation, impact assessments, issue tracking / resolution, and status reporting.
• Ensures system and acceptance tests completed, all defects addressed, and all service requests contained in the release were signed off

Why GSK?
GSK is deeply committed to professional and personal development offering employment opportunities across a diverse collection of businesses and geographies. So you'll flourish in an inspiring environment where personal growth plays a vital part in the changing face of the business. Most of all, you'll enjoy the sense of purpose that comes from leading change in an industry that touches millions every day.

Thank you very much for your interest in development opportunities with GlaxoSmithKline.

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Desired profile

Basic qualifications:
Role Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience in Information Technology,
• 1+ years of previous service, release and/or project management experience,
• 1+ years of experience in infrastructure testing,
• 1+ years of experience in AIX based environments, preferred in GSAP environment
• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or related field,
• Advanced level knowledge of system development lifecycle and AIX infrastructure,
• Strong leadership and management skills,
• Proficiency with ITIL
• Change and configuration management experience
• Ability to manage time and workload effectively which includes planning, organizing, and prioritizing with attention to details,
• Clear understanding of compliance and validation requirements,
• Strong technical background in server based computing,
• Highly skilled at problem solving and root cause elimination,
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams,
• Ability to build and manage relationships effectively in a matrix environment,
• People and customer service skills,
• Articulating skills, both written, verbal and presentation,
• Negotiation skills,
• Highly process oriented,
• Effective communicator
• English Level Requirement:
• Advanced written and verbal communication is a must

Technical Knowledge:

• Linux (RHEL)
• AIX
• SAP HANA
• High Availability
• HPe 3PAR Storage

Preferred qualifications:
not required