Senior DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure Automation Engineer, Platform Engineer

roche

pune 5 Years Exp Posted 16d ago

Job Description

  • Lead & execute Automation Strategy: 

    • Own, architect, and scale robust IaC pipelines to standardize our global environments.

    • Engineer advanced tooling for metrics, reporting, and observability. Provide users and leadership with crystal-clear visibility into system performance and platform usage statistics.

    • Research and execute AI/ML opportunities within our hosting ecosystem - such as automated log anomaly detection, proactive outage resolution, and predictive capacity scaling for heavy R&D workloads.

  • Collaboration and Requirements Gathering:

    • Partner with business stakeholders to gather and document detailed requirements (use cases, epics, user stories, etc.) and manage this input in the product backlog.

    • Work with technical teams and product vendors to understand existing and intended system functionalities and capabilities, as well as data migration needs.

    • Facilitate meetings to ensure a comprehensive understanding of business needs and technical capabilities.

  • Project Management and Integration:

    • Drive the prototyping phase, connecting all stakeholders and key actors to provide a proof of concept.

    • Drive the integration process, transitioning from former solution to future solution.

    • Define user stories with acceptance criteria and definition of done, documentation, and other relevant artifacts to ensure clear requirements communication.

  • Cross-functional Team Coordination:

    • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including business, product management, and development, to ensure alignment and successful integration

    • Act as the technical mentor for team members transitioning into automation roles, fostering a strong DevOps culture and establishing modern engineering best practices.

We are looking for a passionate, automation-first leader who thrives on building scalable infrastructure platforms.

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems analysis, or a related study

  • 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, System Engineering, or Infrastructure Automation within complex enterprise hosting ecosystems

  • Expert-level knowledge of IaC tools, specifically Ansible and Terraform.

  • The AI / Innovation Mindset: A strong technical curiosity and awareness of how AI tools, data models, or automated scripts can be applied to optimize system logging, monitoring, and infrastructure configuration.

  • Excellent communication, leadership, and collaboration skills to work effectively in an Agile (Scrum/Kanban) framework

Nice-to-Have Skills

  • Experience within life sciences, diagnostics, medical devices, healthcare, or another regulated environment.

  • Experience with requirements management, CAD, PLM, engineering systems, or R&D instrumentation environments.

  • Experience integrating test automation approaches with enterprise workflows, CI/CD pipelines, or quality management processes.

  • Experience supporting automation harmonisation or standardisation across teams.

    • Experience advising clients on AI testing strategy, tooling selection, and implementation roadmaps.

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