Roche fosters diversity, equity and inclusion, representing the communities we serve. When dealing with healthcare on a global scale, diversity is an essential ingredient to success. We believe that inclusion is key to understanding people’s varied healthcare needs. Together, we embrace individuality and share a passion for exceptional care. 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 Open Source Database Infrastructure Engineer at Roche; You will utilize your expertise in Open Source solutions (ie PostgreSQL, MySQL, AWS RDS), noSQL (i.e. MongoDB, GraphDB, DocumentDB, Azure CosmosDB). 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:
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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.
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Implements and maintains CI/CD pipelines, enabling developers to easily build, test, and deploy their applications.
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Ensure IT infrastructure services reach and maintain the agreed service level indicators (SLIs), objectives (SLOs), agreements (SLAs) in compliance with QA requirements.
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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.
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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.
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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:
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3-5 years of experience with minimum Bachelors; Masters preferred.
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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.
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Experience working with Infrastructure systems internals, their availability, administration, configuration and integration.
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Familiarity with Software Engineering and DevOps principles and automated testing and CI/CD tools.
Preferred:
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Knowledge of agile methodologies and principles.
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Expertise in both on-premise and in public cloud databases with a preference in Open Source solutions (ie PostgreSQL, MySQL, AWS RDS), noSQL (ie MongoDB, GraphDB, DocumentDB, Azure CosmosDB) as well as Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle experience.
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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
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.
What We Do
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).
