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The PositionWe have an exciting new opportunity for an Automation Expert to join our Diagnostics R&D Instrumentation team. In this role, you will be the driving force behind our transition to a fully automated, scalable platforms. You will not just manage servers; you will own the vision for our Infrastructure as Code deployment pipelines and mentor other engineers scaling up their automation skills. Collaborating closely with our team, you will standardize our hosting environment, build modern observability stacks, and explore pioneering AI/ML opportunities to optimize predictive platform maintenance and operational efficiencies.
Your responsibilities Include:
Lead & execute Automation Strategy:
Own, architect, and scale robust IaC pipelines to standardize our global environments.
Engineer advanced tooling for metrics, reporting, and observability. Provide users and leadership with crystal-clear visibility into system performance and platform usage statistics.
Research and execute AI/ML opportunities within our hosting ecosystem - such as automated log anomaly detection, proactive outage resolution, and predictive capacity scaling for heavy R&D workloads.
Collaboration and Requirements Gathering:
Partner with business stakeholders to gather and document detailed requirements (use cases, epics, user stories, etc.) and manage this input in the product backlog.
Work with technical teams and product vendors to understand existing and intended system functionalities and capabilities, as well as data migration needs.
Facilitate meetings to ensure a comprehensive understanding of business needs and technical capabilities.
Project Management and Integration:
Drive the prototyping phase, connecting all stakeholders and key actors to provide a proof of concept.
Drive the integration process, transitioning from former solution to future solution.
Define user stories with acceptance criteria and definition of done, documentation, and other relevant artifacts to ensure clear requirements communication.
Cross-functional Team Coordination:
Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including business, product management, and development, to ensure alignment and successful integration
Act as the technical mentor for team members transitioning into automation roles, fostering a strong DevOps culture and establishing modern engineering best practices.
We are looking for a passionate, automation-first leader who thrives on building scalable infrastructure platforms.
Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems analysis, or a related study
5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, System Engineering, or Infrastructure Automation within complex enterprise hosting ecosystems
Expert-level knowledge of IaC tools, specifically Ansible and Terraform.
The AI / Innovation Mindset: A strong technical curiosity and awareness of how AI tools, data models, or automated scripts can be applied to optimize system logging, monitoring, and infrastructure configuration.
Excellent communication, leadership, and collaboration skills to work effectively in an Agile (Scrum/Kanban) framework
Nice-to-Have Skills
Experience within life sciences, diagnostics, medical devices, healthcare, or another regulated environment.
Experience with requirements management, CAD, PLM, engineering systems, or R&D instrumentation environments.
Experience integrating test automation approaches with enterprise workflows, CI/CD pipelines, or quality management processes.
Experience supporting automation harmonisation or standardisation across teams.
Experience advising clients on AI testing strategy, tooling selection, and implementation roadmaps.
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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
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems analysis, or related field
- 5+ years hands-on experience in DevOps, System Engineering, or Infrastructure Automation within complex enterprise hosting ecosystems
- Expert-level knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code tools, specifically Ansible and Terraform
- Proven experience designing, owning, and scaling IaC deployment pipelines and CI/CD automation
- Experience building observability, metrics, and reporting tooling for platform visibility
- Strong technical curiosity and awareness of applying AI/ML to optimize logging, monitoring, and infrastructure operations
- Excellent communication, leadership, and collaboration skills; experience working in Agile (Scrum/Kanban)
- Experience within life sciences, diagnostics, medical devices, healthcare, or regulated environments
- Experience with requirements management, CAD, PLM, or R&D instrumentation environments
- Experience integrating test automation with enterprise CI/CD pipelines and quality management processes
- Experience supporting automation harmonization/standardization across teams
- Experience advising on AI testing strategy, tooling selection, and implementation roadmaps
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.
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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).
