DevOps Engineer

Roche fosters diversity, equity and inclusion, representing the communities we serve. When dealing with healthcare on a global scale, diversity is an essential ingredient to success. We believe that inclusion is key to understanding people’s varied healthcare needs. Together, we embrace individuality and share a passion for exceptional care. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

Always innovating, we bring together dedicated people and diverse perspectives from across our global network, empowering each other to keep breaking new ground.

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 DevOps Engineer, you will join the Software Engineering & DevSecOps chapter, partnering with other internal experts, specializing in various aspects of software engineering. Together, the team collaborates on multiple products that contribute to Roche's internal business requirements.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be accountable for optimizing and automating the deployment and management of platform and cloud-based services to support application development. You will also focus on ensuring cost-effectiveness, scalability, and security in all aspects of the digital product lifecycle, including development and maintenance activities.

The Opportunity:

• Designing, developing and maintaining cloud applications built on AWS
• Working with DEV teams and solution architects to build extensive, secure and scalable cloud infrastructure
• Automating and streamlining deployment processes and environment management
• Monitoring app performance, troubleshooting issues and proposing issue resolutions
• Regularly communicating with the DEV team members regarding system design, roadmap and task status

Who you are:

• 5-7 years of relevant work experience
• At least 2+ years of experience working in one or more multinational work environments (e.g. healthcare industry experience is a plus)
• In-depth practical knowledge of AWS services: S3, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway, CloudWatch, networking (VPC, Route53), database systems (SQL and NoSQL), load balancers, WAF
• Understanding of AWS permission management: IAM, policies and AWS scalability architecture
• Experience with observability platforms e.g. Prometheus / Grafana / DataDog
• Knowledge of container services: Docker, EKS / ECS / AWS Fargate
• Proficiency in at least one of the IaC frameworks: Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK
• Knowledge of Git and its branching models
• Deployment and release automation and best practices
• CI/CD frameworks: one of the following: GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins
• Practical knowledge of Python and Bash scripting

Relocation benefits are not available for this job posting.

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 Pharma Canada has its office in Mississauga, Ontario and employs over 850 employees. The Mississauga facility is bright, vibrant, fosters collaboration and teamwork, and is reflective of Roche's truly innovative culture.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.