Observability DevOps Engineer - RDT Digital Operations and Reliability
About this opportunity
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
As an Observability DevOps Engineer within our Digital Operations and Reliability team, you optimize and automate the deployment and management of platform and cloud-based services. In this role, you drive cost-effectiveness, scalability, and security throughout the digital product lifecycle. You collaborate with a global team to evolve our systems from reactive troubleshooting to proactive site reliability engineering, accelerating developer velocity and reducing system downtime to deliver seamless healthcare solutions.
Your Responsibilities
Automate Software Delivery: Drive the design, implementation, and maintenance of efficient Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to streamline software deployments.
Manage Infrastructure as Code: Deploy and manage application underlying infrastructure using modern Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and maintain stable, version-controlled configurations.
Embed Observability Frameworks: Implement robust monitoring and observability solutions (such as Grafana Cloud) to measure and optimize the availability, scalability, and performance of software platforms.
Integrate Lifecycle Security: Drive the adoption of DevSecOps practices by implementing security controls and infrastructure hardening throughout the development and deployment cycles.
Collaborate Globally: Partner with cross-functional architects and developers to translate high-level product strategies and business requirements into concrete development tasks.
Foster Technical Innovation: Stay at the forefront of industry trends and emerging technologies, keeping documentation clear and providing technical mentorship to engineering colleagues.
Who You Are
You are a proactive, growth-minded engineer who thrives on solving complex, ambiguous technical challenges and enjoys sharing knowledge within an international team environment.
Professional Experience: You bring 3 to 7 years of experience in the software development lifecycle, preferably within a multinational or healthcare corporate environment, backed by a technical degree or equivalent practical experience.
CI/CD & Source Code Expertise: You demonstrate strong hands-on experience with source code management tools (such as GitLab, GitHub, or Bitbucket) and configuring automated deployment pipelines.
Infrastructure & Cloud Capabilities: You hold practical knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools (such as Terraform, Ansible, Vault, or Consul) along with experience in containers or Kubernetes environments.
Monitoring & Observability Proficiency: You possess a solid understanding of centralized observability and monitoring systems (such as Grafana Cloud, Splunk, or LogicMonitor).
Communication & Collaboration: You bring essential effective oral and written communication skills in English, with the flexibility to work effectively across multiple time zones and travel occasionally.
At Roche, you’ll thrive in a culture that values different perspectives and creates a place of belonging, where we challenge ourselves to excel and achieve strong results, together.
Where pay transparency applies, details are provided based on the primary posting location. For this role, the primary location is Madrid. If you are interested in additional locations where the role may be available, we will provide the relevant compensation details later in the hiring process.
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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