Database DevOps Infrastructure Engineer

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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.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Engages and improves, under supervision, the whole lifecycle of platforms and services—from inception and design through deployment, operation and retirement by applying software engineering principles to build and manage large scale  IT infrastructure products and services (both on-premises or in public cloud) optimizing:

  • services reliability, availability capacity and performance and eliminating work through automation

  • software development and deployment  by abstracting away the complexity of infrastructure providing self-service tools and APIs for developers that allow code and ship software quickly.

• Contributes to implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines, enabling developers to easily build, test, and deploy their applications. 

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

• Contribute to the maintenance of services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
   

• 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.

Who you are:

• 1-2 years of experience with minimum Bachelors in Information Technology or similar; Masters preferred.

• 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 (Ansible, Python, pytest or similar).

• Usage of source code managers and CI/CD tools to automate software distribution (Bitbucket, Jenkins, gitlab, Argo CD or similar)
   

• Problem-solving and decision-making skills.

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

Preferred:

• Background in Linux Server technologies (RedHat, CentOS, Ubunt