Senior DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure Automation Engineer, Platform Engineer
roche
Job Description
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Lead & execute Automation Strategy:
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Own, architect, and scale robust IaC pipelines to standardize our global environments.
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Engineer advanced tooling for metrics, reporting, and observability. Provide users and leadership with crystal-clear visibility into system performance and platform usage statistics.
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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.
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Collaboration and Requirements Gathering:
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Partner with business stakeholders to gather and document detailed requirements (use cases, epics, user stories, etc.) and manage this input in the product backlog.
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Work with technical teams and product vendors to understand existing and intended system functionalities and capabilities, as well as data migration needs.
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Facilitate meetings to ensure a comprehensive understanding of business needs and technical capabilities.
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Project Management and Integration:
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Drive the prototyping phase, connecting all stakeholders and key actors to provide a proof of concept.
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Drive the integration process, transitioning from former solution to future solution.
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Define user stories with acceptance criteria and definition of done, documentation, and other relevant artifacts to ensure clear requirements communication.
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Cross-functional Team Coordination:
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Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including business, product management, and development, to ensure alignment and successful integration
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Act as the technical mentor for team members transitioning into automation roles, fostering a strong DevOps culture and establishing modern engineering best practices.
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We are looking for a passionate, automation-first leader who thrives on building scalable infrastructure platforms.
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Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems analysis, or a related study
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5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, System Engineering, or Infrastructure Automation within complex enterprise hosting ecosystems
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Expert-level knowledge of IaC tools, specifically Ansible and Terraform.
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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.
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Excellent communication, leadership, and collaboration skills to work effectively in an Agile (Scrum/Kanban) framework
Nice-to-Have Skills
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Experience within life sciences, diagnostics, medical devices, healthcare, or another regulated environment.
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Experience with requirements management, CAD, PLM, engineering systems, or R&D instrumentation environments.
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Experience integrating test automation approaches with enterprise workflows, CI/CD pipelines, or quality management processes.
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Experience supporting automation harmonisation or standardisation across teams.
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Experience advising clients on AI testing strategy, tooling selection, and implementation roadmaps.
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