Cloud & DevOps Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design, implement, maintain and manage multiple highly available solutions and platforms with thousands of users for supporting software engineers and DevOps engineers at Roche

• Develop and maintain technical specifications, diagrams and supporting system documentation and system architecture documentation

• Continuously learn and upskill on relevant technology products and methodologies, leveraging and training resources provided

• Participate in technical peer reviews (design reviews, code walkthroughs, test reviews and root cause analysis sessions)

• Champion automation and evangelize lean development

Skills and experience

• Experience with repository managers like Artifactory, Nexus

• Experience with SCM tools (Git) and project management tools

• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Gitlab CI/CD and GitHub Actions.

• Experience in container technologies (e.g. Docker, Podman) and container platforms (e.g. Kubernetes, Rancher)

• Experience automating using infrastructure as code (e.g. Packer, Terraform) and configuration management (e.g. Ansible) tools and ability to understand and implement immutable infrastructure.

• Experience with Public (e.g. AWS, GCP, Azure) and Private clouds (e.g. VMWare, OpenStack)

•  Experiencing building, architecting, deploying DevOps platforms (i.e., Jenkins, Gitlab, Ansible automation platform) as a developer

• Experience in mainstream programming languages (Java, Python) and scripting languages (bash, python)

Collaboration

• Demonstrate excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, as well as with team members in other geographic locations, across time zones and cultures.

• Collaborate with external offshore vendors team to increase the value delivery.

• Collaborate with solution vendors to renew or procure the permits/licenses, support etc.

• Collaborate with security teams.

• Collaboration with the architecture team on ensuring technical roadmaps for the solutions are technically sound and forward-looking

Driving alignment with Developer Platform Product Line strategy

• Understand and document the Developer Platform Product Line leadership’s vision and requirements.

• Build relationships with the appropriate customer Product Teams and stakeholders to understand their needs and requirements.

• Identify the gaps in toolset needs from the customer Product Team to what Developer Platform Product Line offers.

• Define a vision for the Developer Platform Product Line operating model and toolset service model.

• Build a development, process, and strategy backlog (e.g., a formal backlog in JIRA) to achieve the Developer Platform Product Line vision.

• Share and obtain approval for Service Model recommendations.

• Support delivery of the agreed-upon vision.