Principal SW Engineer in Development

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The Position

As a part of the Chapter Infrastructure Reliability Engineering, the Certman Cybersecurity team (Rotkreuz/Sant Cugat) develops security services helping software projects implement security best practices: certificate management, code signing and encryption. All these services, known collectively as Certman,  are available online, which means our team has to maintain an ever-growing network infrastructure, currently built on the .NET tool stack.

In this role, you'll help to maintain, automate and further develop Certman, in close collaboration with software engineers from the Cybersecurity team. 

About the opportunity

We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer for the Cybersecurity Team. A Software engineer maintains, automates and further develops the components of Certman: certificate management, code signing and encryption. Within this context, multiple applications are hosted on virtual machines in the corporate intranet. Cloud hosting with AWS is also part of our environment. You will be involved in the development of this infrastructure as well.

About us

Roche is the world’s largest biotech company, with truly differentiated medicines in oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, ophthalmology, and diseases of the central nervous system. Roche is also the world leader in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a front-runner in diabetes management.

Recently, and since the digitization of the healthcare system, Roche has been developing a broad portfolio of digital solutions for physicians and patients, which opens up a host of new possibilities that can improve the quality of healthcare and make services more affordable.

Our chapter, Infrastructure Reliability Engineering includes software engineering, system engineering, and DevOps engineering capabilities focused on the design, delivery, maintenance and evolution of stable Infrastructure services for Roche.

The IRE chapter in general develops and maintains on-prem and cloud capabilities related to Databases, Voice & Data Networks, Compute, and Platforms & Storage. These have a high degree of automation and can be consumed as code by Roche’s applications and solutions.

Main tasks:

As a member of the Cybersecurity Team:

• Technical leadership of the team

• Coaching of less senior team members

• Setting and ensuring quality standards

• Full-stack development,

• Continuous improvements of existing services and products,

• Adoption of new and beneficial technologies mainly in AWS.

• Collaboration with Architect and Software Engineers on the system architecture.

• Initiative to improve maturity of the SW development process, such as delivery automation

• Strong support of agile ceremonies and ways of working

• Customer Support

About you

Education and experience:

• University or technical college degree in IT engineering or equivalent in the STEM area

• 5+ years of experience

Skills:

•  C#, .NET (Core &  Framework)

• Testing (MSTest, Moq, JMeter, Testcontainers)

• Entity Framework

• Database design

• JavaScript/TypeScript & Angular

• Experience with networking and web technologies (e.g. NAT, DNS, reverse proxies, web servers)

• AWS (for example, EC2, EKS, Lambda) - setup and administration & IaC

• Cloud-native technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Istio)

• Git source control handling based on GitLab

• Delivery automation & build pipelines

• Experience in Agile processes

• Good communication and presentation skills

• Good English skills, written and verbal 

Plus:

• Lateral Leadership Experience

• Experience in Windows Server administration is a plus

• Experience in PKI setup and administration is a plus

What do we offer?

If you like to be part of a highly skilled multi-cultural team where you can make a difference in improving people's lives, participating actively with clients and other teams while facing new challenges dealing with internal clients and other teams, this is your place.

We will provide you with an excellent work environment, international projects, and a company in which we strongly believe the employees are the biggest strength so you’ll be able to make your own decisions and dedicate time to propose new and innovative changes, optimize processes, and find ways to increase efficiency. We also foster continuous growth and learning with people and resources dedicated to it. Roche also facilitates benefits such as free subscriptions to learning platforms, private insurance,  a good family-work balance, etc.

We attract and retain the best-qualified individuals available, without regard to race/ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability. So make a difference. Be challenged. Be inspired. Be supported and love what you do. Work with us!

Roche is an equal-opportunity employer.

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.