DevOps Engineer

Roche is a global pioneer in pharmaceuticals and diagnostics focused on advancing science to improve people’s lives. The combined strengths of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics under one roof have made Roche the leader in personalised healthcare a strategy that aims to fit the right treatment to each patient in the best way possible.

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 in vitro diagnostics and tissue-based cancer diagnostics, and a frontrunner in diabetes management.

Founded in 1896, Roche continues to search for better ways to prevent, diagnose and treat diseases and make a sustainable contribution to society.

The company also aims to improve patient access to medical innovations by working with all relevant stakeholders. Thirty medicines developed by Roche are included in the World Health Organization Model Lists of Essential Medicines, among them life-saving antibiotics, antimalarials and cancer medicines.

Roche has been recognised as the Group Leader in sustainability within the Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences Industry ten years in a row by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI).

The Role

Role Description :

As a DevOps Software Engineer, you will actively interface with software developers, product managers, test engineers and administrators on projects d to design and develop the build, release, and deploy toolchain for DevOps while providing on-call support.

You should be able to identify, troubleshoot and resolve issues quickly and effectively, sometimes under pressure. Responsibilities include capacity planning, high availability engineering, performance tuning, and automation / tools development.

You should have strong leadership skills, experience managing infrastructure through multiple product releases, and have a passion for reliability and security.

Work with management to set priorities, track operational metrics. Excellent communication skills and teamwork is a must!

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Science, Engineering or a related field
• 5-8 years of experience in Systems Engineering and DevOps role is required; or equivalent combination of education and experience to perform at this level
• Strong ability to architect development toolchains and Cloud infrastructure
• Strong knowledge of Linux systems and internals (Ubuntu preferred)
• Experience in creating software to automate production systems with one of the following languages : Python, Ruby, Java, Go, etc.

Python / Ruby experience is preferred

• Strong working knowledge of AWS Cloud infrastructure (EC2, RDS, VPC peering, Route53, S3, Auto-scaling) or hybrid environments (OpenStack)
• Experience with container technology including Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience with provisioning infrastructure through IAC (preferably Terraform) and Cloud automation principles
• Good understanding of networking and related protocols; must have a strong understanding of fundamentals (HTT, DNS, TLS)
• Proficiency with source control, continuous integration (e.g. Git, Jenkins)
• Demonstrate experience troubleshooting problems and working with a team to resolve web scale production issues
• Strong experience with configuration management, monitoring and systems tools (ie : Salt, Ansible, Nagios, Graphite, Fluentd, etc.). Ansible is preferred
• Good understanding of MySQL, PostgreSQL databases
• Experience working with Cloud-based technologies (CloudFlare CDN, Qualys WAS is highly desirable
• Drive to build robust automated logging, monitoring, and alerting systems with tools such as SumoLogic, CloudWatch, AppDynamics
• Exposure to messaging pub / sub systems (e.g. RabbitMQ, Active-MQ, Kinesis, Kafka, etc.
• Troubleshooting critical development systems (Build failures, critical web services)
• Experience with Release Management processes and controls

Preferred Qualifications :

• Experience with Linux package management tools e.g. RPM, Deb & FPM, etc.
• Exposure to Security technologies related to perimeter security, web application scanning and firewall systems
• Additionally, a working knowledge on one of distributed systems technologies (e.g. Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra, Zookeeper, Consul, etc.)
• Familiarity with NoSQL technologies e.g. Redis, DynamoDB
• Experience with sensitive software products such as medical, financial, human safety, high security

What's on Offer?

• Work within a company with a solid track record of success
• Work alongside & learn from best in class talent
• Attractive salary & benefits
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