Backup Reliability Engineer
Madrid, SPAIN IT development
Job description
The Position
About Roche Informatics
In Roche Informatics, we build on Roche's 125-year history as one of the world's largest biotech companies, globally recognized for providing transformative innovative solutions across major disease areas. We combine human capabilities with cutting-edge technological innovations to do now what our patients need next. Our commitment to our patients' needs motivates us to deliver technology that evolves the practice of medicine.
About the team and role:
Be part of our inclusive team at Roche Informatics, where we're driven by a shared passion for technological novelties and optimal IT solutions.
A deeply skilled specialist who thrives in solving a variety of complex business problems through practical and ingenious application of technologies with advanced devops knowledge who knows how to apply automation when needed.
Our specialists work on complex issues and needs where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors, including technology dependencies, inter-organizational impact and systems thinking approaches.
They contribute to and technically lead challenging projects which require deep technical knowledge and infrastructure engineering skills.
They are accountable and responsible for decision-making in technical design, build and testing, in the context of the projects/ activities to which they are assigned. In doing so, they exercise sound judgment, balanced with effective consultative engagement of key stakeholders, in the methods and techniques chosen to obtain the desired results.
Your key responsibilities:
Contribute to technology designs in their respective infrastructure technology space align and adhere to the organization’s architecture technical strategy, policies, standards and direction
To ensure technologies implemented comply Quality/Regulatory standards, as applicable
Proven experience of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service applying Scrum and Agile methodologies
To establish technical direction and contribute/write best practices, position papers, and white papers for the infrastructure technologies and the use cases for their respective technology areas
To stay proactive and aware of operational challenges and opportunities; works with support team staff to provide internal escalation support as needed to resolve incidents and major incidents
To produce and maintain sufficient documentation for the designs, design patterns, and component standards created or maintained
Able to work autonomously and/or under supervision of more senior peers
Contribute to the end-to-end design of infrastructure technologies and the creation and maintenance of related standards
To contribute to determining success criteria and to evaluate across technology domains promising technologies via proofs of concept (PoCs) and assess their feasibility in meeting Roche’s business needs
Serve as consultant to senior internal/external stakeholders on the most relevant technical matters pertaining to the technology strategy
To strengthen the overall Engineering community by building bridges and collaborating with other Engineers in other infrastructure technology areas
To advise, influence, collaborate with, and integrate feedback from various IT partners including architects, service owners, integrated service owners line-of-business stakeholders
To map the technology roadmaps into portfolio projects/activities and to contribute in estimating resources, dependencies, risks, and timelines required to deliver these projects/activities successfully
Job Requirements/Qualifications
Experience acting as Devops
Well proven scripting and automation skills with strong knowledge in provisioning, delivering, and managing infrastructure as code, CI/CD and orchestration systems
Strong interpersonal skills
Well demonstrated customer & delivery focus
Strong customer engagement and presentation skills with the ability to communicate across all levels (senior and/or large audiences)
Ability to work effectively with team members and virtual teams from different locations and different cultural background
Ability to function independently with some supervision and navigate ambiguity
Problem-solving and decision-making skills
Highly fluent oral and written communication skills in English. German, Spanish or Chinese (Mandarin) are significant pluses
Proven project and time management skills
Moderate to extensive travel (20-30%) required and ability to work across multiple time zones, including some on-call and extended hours work, as required
One or more industry certifications in the respective infrastructure technology area(s) are desired
Education / Years of Experience
3-6 Years of relevant work experience.
or 3-6 Years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor's degree.
or 1-3 Years of relevant work experience with a Masters degree.
At least 4 years experience of working in one or more multinational work environments (e.g. healthcare industry experience is a plus) as a specialist level Infrastructure Engineer.
Proven experience in:
Designing Backup solutions either on premisses or in the public cloud based on:
Backup environments: Cohesity.
Coding and scripting: PHP, Python, Perl and/or Ruby or equivalents
Infrastructure as code technologies: Ansible, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, SaltStack or equivalents
What you get:
Great working environment with attractive compensation and rewards package (according to local regulations);
Annual bonus payment based on performance;
Access to various internal and external training platforms (e.g. Linkedin Learning);
Experienced and professional colleagues and workplace that supports innovation;
Multiple Savings Plans with Employer Match
Company’s emphasis on employees’ wellness and work-life balance ( (e.g. generous vacation days and OneRoche Wellness Days ),
Flexible workplace policy;
State of art working environment and facilities;
And many more that the Talent Acquisition Partner will be happy to talk about!
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.