Staff DevOps Engineer- DIS

Job description

·  Job facts

Roche Diagnostics has created a new start-up business charged with building a modern software stack that will change the way patients are cared for. Our challenge is to bring together complex diagnostic and treatment data from medical devices and IT systems within a hospital and intelligently process and present this data to doctors and caregivers to improve patient care.

We are looking for candidates with a deep understanding of modern SaaS architecture and experience across the full stack with a “create tools, not band-aids” DevOps mindset. If you would rather improve health outcomes for millions instead of helping sell ads on the Internet, this is the job for you!

You'll get to build a SaaS business from the ground up with the ability to influence the product and architecture and lots of opportunities for growth. Plus you'll get to work side by side with a team of world-class doctors and researchers who want to impact global healthcare delivery.

The Position:

The Staff DevOps Engineer is a key member of engineering and DevOps groups and will apply knowledge of design principles, practices in the implementation of complex, enterprise-scale software systems. General responsibilities include design concept generation, participating in and leading design reviews for components or features, development, and testing of the core software stack, and reliability testing.

Your Responsibilities:

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Software Development: This is a software development position to write high-quality software that will perform at scale, be supportable, and be extensible.

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Process & Operations: Ensure the software stack integrates with our existing CI pipeline and contribute to continuous improvement; independently design, plan and deliver high-quality software

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Leadership: Ensure a culture that values technical excellence together with support and compassion for individuals

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Evangelism: A a key evangelist, you will work to evangelize a healthy DevOps software development practice within the Roche Engineering Community

Qualifications:

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BS in Computer Science, or Computer Engineering, or related field.

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8+ years of experience in the software industry with a minimum of 5+ years of hands-on experience with other cloud providers such as Google or Azure. AWS experience preferred

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Experience in overall areas in DevOps including CI/CD with build & release, Internal tooling, and production operations.

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Build and operation tools that monitor backend production, Make sure backend services scale economically, Develop tooling framework, Help the dev team resolve production issues

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Experience automating using infrastructure as code: AWS Cloudformation, Terraform or AWS Python/Boto API (or equivalent).

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Hands-on automation development using configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef or Saltstack.

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Hands-on System Administration experience with Unix based systems including experience with r system configuration and networking (DNS, DHCP, rout tables and routing).

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Scripting experience using shell, python, ruby or similar languages.

Nice to Have:

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Comfortable developing and reviewing AWS IAM and resource policies with a proven ability to demonstrate this

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Experience deploying or managing large scale distributed Unix environments Partake in an on-call rotation alongside the engineers who build our production backends, Comfortable with large scale production systems and technologies, including load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems, and/or configuration management.

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Experience in contemporary platforms extended from cloud such as docker containers, Mesos and/or Kubernetes.

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Experience in production operations including logging and monitoring.

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Experience in NOC (Network operation center) and previous SRE experience is a big plus.

·  Who we are

At Roche, 98,000 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 is an equal opportunity employer and strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination based upon an individual's race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, age, mental/physical disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.