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Storage (HPC) DevOps Engineer

Roche Farma
Full-time
On-site
Spain

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

Madrid (Spain) - Hybrid

The position will involve working within product teams to deliver the best class scientific computing platforms, in partnership with our scientists and service providers. Knowledge of parallel file systems and high performance storage platforms, Linux system administration, scripting and a DevOps approach to platform administration.

Your day to day activities involve solving issues and user requests, ensuring everything runs smoothly. You immerse yourself in the creative process of developing cutting-edge features, enhancing existing functionalities, and tackling technical debt to keep our systems robust. Daily stand-ups and collaborative product planning sessions fuel your innovation and teamwork, empowering you to drive impactful projects and shape the future of our technology landscape.

Job Responsibilities

  • Contribute to activities passionate about availability, tuning, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response and capacity planning.

  • Engage in and improve, with low mentorship, the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design through deployment, operation and refinement.

  • Monitors and resolves Incident/problems with platform operations, suggesting priorities and collaborating in the resolution when required.

  • Contribute to support services before they go live through activities such as infrastructure design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning and launch reviews.

  • Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by proposing changes that improve reliability and velocity.

  • Contribute to the maintenance of services once they are in production by measuring and supervising availability, latency and overall system health.

  • Look for continuous improvement activities both in technical, teamwork, collaboration and processes areas. Propose and contribute to continuous improvement activities.

Who are you?

  • Curious and willing to learn, experience with Parallel Filesystem (e.g. Lustre, GPFS, BeeGFS), or Object storage (NetApp StorageGrid, S3), background in Linux Server technologies, proficiency in infrastructure as code, scripting and automation (AWX, Ansible, GitLab, Python, YAML), good communication and problem-solving skills, and the ability to work optimally in a fast-paced environment. 

  • A Bachelor's or Master's degree with relevant work experience is preferred.

  • At least 2 years experience of working in one or more multinational work environments (e.g. healthcare industry experience is a plus) as a systems or software Engineer.

  • Ability to work across multiple time zones, including on-call and occasionally travel.

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 is an Equal Opportunity Employer.