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 PositionPrincipal DevOps Engineer (DevOps Lead)
At Roche, we are passionate about transforming patients’ lives, and we are bold in both decision and action - we believe that good business means a better world. That is why we come to work every single day. We commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all. We do this today to build a better tomorrow.
DescriptionAt 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 Opportunity
The Principal DevOps Engineer (DevOps Lead) is a key member in engineering and DevOps groups and will apply knowledge of design principles, practices in the implementation of complex, enterprise-scale software systems. The Principal engineer is a hands-on leader of the DevOps function. General responsibilities include design concept generation, participating in reviews for components or features, development, and testing of the core software stack, and reliability testing.
Key Responsibilities:
Software Development: This is a software development position to write high quality software that will perform at scale, be supportable, and be extensible
Process & Operations: Ensure the software stack integrates with our existing CI pipeline and contribute to continuous improvement; independently design, plan and deliver high-quality software
Leadership: Ensure a culture that values technical excellence together with support and compassion for individuals
Evangelism: As a key evangelist, you will work to evangelize a healthy DevSecOps software development practice within the Roche Engineering Community
Who You Are:
BS in Computer Science, or Computer Engineering, or related field.
10+ years of hands-on experience in public cloud AWS, Google, or Azure (AWS Preferred) of which at the minimum 5 years of experience in the software industry.
Scripting experience is required and highly desirable, using shell, python, ruby, or similar languages.
Experience leading DevOps teams and in building and maturing CI/CD pipelines
Expertise in overall areas in DevSecOps including CI/CD with build & release, Internal tooling, and production operations.
Build and operation tools that monitor backend production, Make sure backend services scale economically, Develop tooling framework, Help the dev team resolve production issues
Hands-on System Administration experience with Unix based systems including experience with system configuration and networking (DNS, DHCP, rout tables and routing).
Experience automating using infrastructure as code: AWS Cloudformation, Terraform, etc.
Hands-on automation development using chef or ansible desired
Experience deploying or managing large scale distributed Unix environments Partake in an on-call rotation alongside the engineers who build our production backends, Comfortable with large scale production systems and technologies, including load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems, and/or configuration management.
Experience in contemporary platforms extended from cloud such as docker containers, Mesos, and/or Kubernetes.
Experience in production operations including logging and monitoring.
Experience in NOC (Network operations center) and previous SRE experience is a big plus.
Leadership Skills:
You lead with a focus on the long term impact of the business rather than short term wins. You see the bigger picture beyond today and focus on what matters. You are responsible for the overall direction of our devops capabilities and driving consistency and efficiency across the Data Platform & Insights Services Chapter. You will drive the internal technical backlog across the product teams to bring continued improvements and enhancements to how we deploy, monitor and maintain our systems. You master the unexpected and encourage disruptive thinking.
The Principal DevOps Engineer is expected to demonstrate the Roche Operating Principles and contribute to the Roche Group. The Roche Operating Principles are:
Put patients first
Follow the science
Act as one team
Embrace differences
Accelerate learning
Simplify radically
Make impact now
Think long term
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 strongly committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strive to build teams that represent a range of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Embracing diversity enables us to create a great place to work and to innovate for patients.
Roche is an equal opportunity employer.
Where pay transparency applies, details are provided based on the primary posting location. For this role, the primary location is Sant Cugat del Vallès. If you are interested in additional locations where the role may be available, we will provide the relevant compensation details later in the hiring process.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.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of hands-on experience in public cloud AWS, Google, or Azure (AWS Preferred)
- 5 years of experience in the software industry
- Scripting experience using shell, python, ruby, or similar languages
- Experience leading DevOps teams and building CI/CD pipelines
- Expertise in DevSecOps, CI/CD, internal tooling, and production operations
- Hands-on system administration experience with Unix based systems
- Experience automating using infrastructure as code: AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, etc.
- Hands-on automation development using Chef or Ansible
- Experience deploying or managing large scale distributed Unix environments
- Experience in production operations including logging and monitoring
- Experience in NOC and previous SRE experience
Roche Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Roche and has not been reviewed or approved by Roche.
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Retirement Support — U.S. materials describe a 401(k) with both matching and an additional company contribution, supported by formal plan documents and true‑up features. This structure is positioned as a standout element of the total package, particularly at Genentech.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time‑off provisions include substantial vacation, a year‑end shutdown, and a paid six‑week sabbatical after six years. These elements indicate a recharge‑oriented approach within the U.S. offering.
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Healthcare Strength — Company materials emphasize comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and mental‑health resources alongside well‑being programs. Benefits pages consistently highlight breadth across core health coverage elements.
Roche Insights
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).
