DevOps Software 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

You join the Product Development, Integration and Engineering Chapter, a global team of technical profiles, including Cloud & DevOps Engineers, located around the world who are involved in various projects for all Roche divisions. The variety of the technical profiles in the Chapter allows you to grow and get support from virtually any technical angle. As a chapter member, you are assigned a durable product team, part of a product line that is focusing on supporting the business.

The Developer Platform Product Line has been established to support the software development lifecycle across Roche with an experienced team and a tools library that allow Roche Product Teams to leverage industry best practices and Roche’s enterprise platforms for their DevSecOps needs.

For this position which is designed to be assigned to the Development Acceleration Product in the Developer Platform Product Line, you will be designing, implementing, maintaining and managing solutions deployed in hybrid infrastructure, with a focus on developing and streamlining the software delivery life cycle by automating processes, enhancing collaboration and ensuring delivery with high quality.

We expect the versatility of the common skill set of DevOps Engineers as well.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design, implement, maintain and manage multiple highly available solutions and platforms with thousands of users for supporting software engineers and DevOps engineers at Roche
• Develop and maintain technical specifications, diagrams and supporting system documentation and system architecture documentation
• Continuously learn and upskill on relevant technology products and methodologies, leveraging and training resources provided
• Participate in technical peer reviews (design reviews, code walkthroughs, test reviews and root cause analysis sessions)
• Champion automation and evangelize lean development
  
  
  

Skills And Experience

• Experience with repository managers like Artifactory, Nexus
• Experience with SCM tools (Git) and project management tools
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Gitlab CI/CD and GitHub Actions
• Experience in container technologies (e.g. Docker, Podman) and container platforms (e.g. Kubernetes, Rancher)
• Experience automating using infrastructure as code (e.g. Packer, Terraform) and configuration management (e.g. Ansible) tools and ability to understand and implement immutable infrastructure
• Experience with Public (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure) and Private clouds (e.g. VMWare, OpenStack)
• Experiencing building, architecting, deploying DevOps platforms (i.e., Jenkins, Gitlab, Ansible automation platform) as a developer
• Experience with scripting languages (bash, python)
  
  

Collaboration

• Demonstrate excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, as well as with team members in other geographic locations, across time zones and cultures
• Collaborate with external offshore vendors team to increase the value delivery
• Collaborate with solution vendors to renew or procure the permits/licenses, support etc
• Collaborate with security teams
• Collaboration with the architecture team on ensuring technical roadmaps for the solutions are technically sound and forward-looking
  
  

Driving alignment with Developer Platform Product Line strategy

• Understand and document the Developer Platform Product Line leadership’s vision and requirements
• Build relationships with the appropriate customer Product Teams and stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements
• Identify the gaps in toolset needs from the customer Product Team to what Developer Platform Product Line offers
• Define a vision for the Developer Platform Product Line operating model and toolset service model
• Build a development, process, and strategy backlog (e.g., a formal backlog in JIRA) to achieve the Developer Platform Product Line vision
• Share and obtain approval for Service Model recommendations
• Support delivery of the agreed-upon vision
  
  

You will work in an agile, capacity-based model to continually prioritize project needs using traditional agile sprint reviews with Roche’s Developer Platform Product Line leadership, to review progress and align on upcoming priorities.

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.