Database DevOps Infrastructure Engineer

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections,  where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

And as the world evolves, so do we.  For over 125 years, we have taken on some of the most complex challenges in healthcare.

As a Database DevOps Infrastructure Engineer at Roche, you will be at the forefront of optimizing the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of our expansive IT infrastructure, spanning on-premises and public cloud environments. Your role involves applying software engineering principles across the entire lifecycle, from inception to decommissioning. You will dive into the heart of our database platforms, leveraging your specialized knowledge to optimize performance, scalability, and reliability. Be the driving force behind continuous improvements, ensuring our platforms meet and exceed the highest standards.

The Opportunity:

• Engages in and improves the whole lifecycle of platforms and service by applying software engineering principles to build and manage large scale IT infrastructure products and services (both on-premises or in public cloud) optimizing services reliability, availability, capacity and performance  and eliminating work through automation and software development.

• Implements and maintains CI/CD pipelines, enabling developers to easily build, test, and deploy their applications. 

• Ensure IT infrastructure services reach and maintain the agreed service level indicators (SLIs), objectives (SLOs), agreements (SLAs) in compliance with QA requirements.

• Contribute to the maintenance of services once they are live by Monitoring  and resolving incidents/problems (including major ones) with platform operations, suggesting priorities and collaborating in the resolution when required.

• Implements cost, compliance and security best practices, ensuring that platforms and services meet the corresponding requirements and ensures implemented solutions and components comply with Quality/Regulatory standards, as applicable.

• Collaborate with developers, Managed Services suppliers, other teams and vendors to continuously improve application development velocity, optimize services reliability, availability and performance and to ensure that new features and changes are rolled out with reliability in mind 

Who You Are:

• 3-5 years of experience with minimum Bachelors; Masters preferred.

• Well proven scripting and automation skills with strong knowledge in delivering and managing infrastructure as code. Stay at the forefront of advancements, implementing cutting-edge solutions to elevate our platform capabilities.

• Experience working with Infrastructure systems internals, their availability, administration, configuration and integration. 

• Familiarity with Software Engineering and DevOps principles and automated testing and CI/CD tools. 

Preferred:

• Knowledge of agile methodologies and principles.

• Expertise in both on-premise and in public cloud databases with a preference in Open Source solutions (ie PostgreSQL, MySQL, AWS Aurora), noSQL (ie MongoDB, GraphDB, DocumentDB, Azure CosmosDB) as well as Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle experience. 

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and/or GitOps plus required tooling (AWX, Rundeck,  Ansible, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Microsoft DSC or equivalent) as well as Coding and scripting: Python, Perl, Rubby, JS, Go, SQL, GraphQL

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.