DevOps Software 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.

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. You are looking for a company where you have the opportunity to pursue your interests across functions and geographies.

You will be:

1. Collaborating with architects and developers to establish technical specifications.
2. Understanding product strategy, business requirements, and translating them into development tasks, and when required, leading DevSecOps activities.
3. Driving the implementation and maintenance of efficient Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery pipelines to automate the software delivery process.
4. Deploying and managing the software application underlying infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code principles and tools, and maintaining version-controlled configurations.
5. Implementing robust security practices throughout the development and deployment lifecycle.
6. Implementing observability solutions to measure the availability and performance of software applications.
7. Developing and maintaining technical specifications, diagrams, and supporting system documentation. Keeping abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in Software and DevSecOps Engineering.

Who you are:

The following skills are a must for the job:

1. Experience in the full software development lifecycle from requirements gathering, design, software development, testing, and retirement of systems, agile software development methodologies, source code management tools (Gitlab, Github), CI/CD Pipelining (Gitlab-ci, Github actions and/or Jenkins), Python programming, observability and monitoring tools (i.e., DataDog, Splunk, LogicMonitor, Elastic Search, Grafana, etc.), Docker and/or Kubernetes, AWS/Azure Cloud Providers.
2. Effective oral and written communication skills in English.
3. Experience working in cross-functional teams and across multiple time zones. Additionally, experience in developing and using validated systems and Snowflake knowledge and experience is a plus.
4. 3 – 5 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering. At least 3+ years experience working in one or more multinational work environments (e.g., healthcare industry experience is a plus).
5. Good analytical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.

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.

The Roche Services & Solutions as well as People Support Solutions organizations located in Kuala Lumpur provide end-to-end business solutions for Finance, Procurement, IT, Communications, People & Culture (Human Resources), and beyond to our Roche colleagues across the APAC region. Today Roche employs around 1100 employees in Malaysia.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.