DevOps Infrastructure Engineering Expert

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The Position

In the position of Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer you will join the Cloud Secure Account Management team that builds the cloud platform for a global portfolio of digital products. It serves as the center of excellence for cloud infrastructure, cloud account security, and its governance. It enables digital products application teams to build and operate healthcare solutions through secure, standardized infrastructure while maintaining the digital products development autonomy. You will join a growing engineering team that will provide this core platform capability and innovate on it. 

Your responsibilities will include:

• Software Development​: This is a software development position to write high quality software that will perform at scale, be supportable, and be extensible.

• Process​ ​&​ ​Operations: Ensure the software stack integrates with our existing CI/CD pipelines and contribute to continuous improvement; independently design, plan and deliver high-quality software. Providing technical support for day-to-day operations, tool integration, automation support, change management and business continuity programs. 

• Leadership​: Ensure a culture that values technical excellence together with support and compassion for individuals 

• Evangelism: A key evangelist, you will work to evangelize a healthy DevSecOps software development practice within the Roche Engineering Community 

Your day to day will consist of:

• Design, build, test, and maintain scalable, secure and efficient cloud infrastructure. 

• Develop infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent.

• Oversee the lifecycle of cloud account provisioning, ensuring compliance with security policies and best practices.

• Create scripts, software, customizations, templates to ensure speed of delivery

• Champion automation and evangelize lean development

• Work with DevOps and DevSecOps Teams, with emphasis on security

• Implement and enforce security measures, including identity and access management (IAM), to protect cloud accounts and data.

• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.

• Cooperating with other product streams to diagnose and understand their needs, proposing solutions and providing technological consultancy

• Document processes, procedures, and configurations to ensure knowledge sharing and continuity.

• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members

• Lead incident response efforts to quickly resolve infrastructure-related issues.

• Perform root cause analysis and implement preventive measures to avoid future incidents

• Evaluate and integrate new tools and technologies to enhance the platform.

• Lead, mentor, and coordinate a team of DevOps engineers to ensure the successful development, deployment, and maintenance of scalable, reliable, and efficient infrastructure solutions.

Who you are

You’re looking for a challenge where you can pursue your interests across functions and geographies. Your passion for technology, delivery, reliability, and operational excellence will impact the lives of patients fighting cancer and many other disease areas in the future.

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with experience in infrastructure automation to develop and streamline processes for the Navify platform, with hands-on experience in AWS, including proficiency in container orchestration and microservices.

You bring experience working in a multicultural environment and demonstrated cultural awareness.

In addition, you bring:

• Ability to communicate effectively and inclusively with a diverse range of team members and stakeholders.

• A team and customer focus with a proven problem-solving track record.

• Experience with the software development lifecycle, the ability to work on cross-functional teams with both technical and non-technical team members, and the desire to learn and grow within the organization.

• A very good understanding of current trends, tools, and practices in DevOps and Cloud Infrastructure.

• Knowledge of standards and ability to apply good practices in the scope of designing IT solutions architecture.

• Experience in Cloud infrastructure with medium to large global enterprises with global geographical topologies.

• Proficiency with CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, containerization, orchestration, building DevOps toolchains, and software development process automation.

• A DevOps mindset focused on driving and supporting best practices, quality, and consistency within all phases of infrastructure automation.

• Strong motivation to learn and discover new technologies.

• Programming skills: Experience in any one or more of C, GoLang, Ruby, Python, Java.

And the following technical and non-technical skills:

• Python design patterns, OO programming

• Proficient in Bash / PowerShell / Git

• Experience in Cloud Security and Serverless Architectures (Microservices and event driven architecture) - (Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Step-Functions, ECS, EKS)

• Infrastructure-as-Code and related tools (CDK / Terraform / Terragrunt /CloudFormation / CI / CD ) 

• Software Design Lifecycle and Agile methodologies

Nice to have would be:

• AWS Certifications (Developer, Solution Architect [Associate / Professional], SysOps)

• Experience with log/event/metric collector and visualization tools (Grafana, ELK, Prometheus)

Who we are

Roche’s expanding digital product portfolio demonstrates its commitment to provide healthcare professionals, laboratories, and patients with digital and digitally-enabled solutions that transform patient care. The existing product portfolio includes decision support systems, data management solutions, and workflow solutions. At the center of these diverse types of solutions is always patient data security and privacy as the highest priority for Roche.

In this context, Roche has built a global team that builds, secures, and operates infrastructure platforms (cloud and on-prem) for its digital products. This team is working with a high freedom to operate in a self-organized setup and is responsible for tackling the cybersecurity, compliance, and infrastructure challenges of the healthcare industry while enabling high-velocity product development. 

Roche embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

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Who we are

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.