Database DevOps Infrastructure Engineer

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.

Be part of our inclusive team at Roche Informatics, where we're driven by a shared passion for technological novelties and optimal IT solutions. 

About the position

As a Database DevOps Infrastructure Engineer at Roche, 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. 

In your role you will apply software engineering principles across the entire lifecycle, from inception to decommissioning to build and manage the Data Stores platforms of the future. 

You will partner with Solution Architects, Product Owners and internal customers to constantly evolve platform features and reliability.

This is an exciting opportunity for motivated individuals to grow their career in a challenging yet rewarding environment.

Job responsibilities

• Engages and improves, under supervision, the whole lifecycle of platforms and services by applying software engineering principles to build and manage large scale  IT infrastructure products and services optimizing services reliability, availability and performance and eliminating work through automation

• Collaborates to ensure IT infrastructure services reach and maintain the agreed service level indicators (SLIs), objectives (SLOs), agreements (SLAs) in compliance with QA requirements.

• Monitors and resolves Incident/problems with platform operations, collaborating in the resolution when required.

• Contributes to implement cost, compliance and security best practices, ensuring that platforms and services meet the corresponding requirements

• Collaborate with developers, Managed Services suppliers and other team members to:

  •   continuously improve application development velocity

  •   optimize services reliability, availability and performance

• Scale systems sustainably, under supervision, through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by proposing changes that improve reliability and velocity.

Job Requirements

• Good interpersonal skills and good oral and written communication skills.

• Customer and delivery focus mindset.

• Proven scripting and automation skills with knowledge in delivering and managing infrastructure as code.

• Aptitude to work effectively with team members and virtual teams from different locations and different cultural backgrounds.

• Problem-solving and decision-making skills.

• Inherent curiosity and a relentless eagerness to learn and grow.

Technology Skills 

• Background on Database Management systems such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, GraphDB or similar ones and its programming languages (SQL, GraphQL).

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and/or GitOps plus required tooling (such as Ansible or puppet).

• Scripting and programming languages such as Python, Java, JS, or Go

• Usage of source code managers, CI/CD to automate software distribution

• We will also value knowledge or expertise in:

  • Knowledge on Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server databases

  • Background in Linux Server technologies (RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu plus Satellite / Foreman).

  • Cloud native infrastructure: containerization, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Kustomize, Terraform, Pulumi, public cloud cloud-native frameworks.

  • Observability, monitoring and security tools such as Xray, CloudWatch, Open Tracing, and Grafana

Education / Years of experience

• 2-4 years of relevant work experience  

• or 1-2 years with Bachelor’s degree

• or 1 year with Masters degree

Evening  shift.

Ability to work across multiple time zones, including on-call and occasionally travel.

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.