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Job Description

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 Position

Principal DevOps Engineer

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.

The Opportunity
The Principal DevOps Engineer 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.

- 8+ 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.

Locations

You will be based in Indianapolis. At the Company's discretion, an exception to the location requirement could be made under extraordinary circumstances.

As this position is a global role, international business travel will be required depending upon the business location of the successful candidate and ongoing business project activities.

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.

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

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.

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