Roche
Healthcare
SeniorSiteReliabilityEngineer
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“Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Roche. Skills: Site Reliability Engineering, Distributed Systems, Cloud Platforms, Automation. Define SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets. Conduct reliability reviews”
What You'll Achieve.
Prevent recurring issues; Exceeding business demands; Exceeding customer demands
Industry & Context.
Troubleshooting; Root cause analysis
On-call rotation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering, Equivalent professional experience, Production on-call experience, Hands-on incident management tools experience, Troubleshooting experience in cloud environments, Troubleshooting experience in distributed systems
Nice to Have
Kubernetes experience
What You'll Do.
Conduct reliability reviews
Design scalable architectures
Design fault-tolerant architectures
Lead capacity planning
Lead performance optimization
Lead cost optimization
Improve system resilience
Drive organizational observability maturity
Perform root cause analysis
Drive rapid mitigation
Participate in blameless postmortems
Reduce incident frequency
Elevate production standards
Collaborate with engineering teams
Reduce operational toil
Improve CI/CD reliability
Improve deployment safety mechanisms
Build infrastructure-as-code
Maintain infrastructure-as-code
Enhance Kubernetes platform reliability
Partner with business teams
Partner with engineering teams
Partner with security teams
Partner with cloud teams
Mentor mid-level engineers
Shape SRE best practices
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Development teams; Engineering teams; Business teams; Security teams; Cloud teams
Communication Scope
Spoken English; Written English
Full Job Description
At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters. ### ### The Position The Position We are building a global Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team to support critical commercial and internal platforms and applications. As an SRE, you will help design, build, and scale reliable distributed systems that power healthcare innovation worldwide. This role is focused on reliability, scalability, automation and operational excellence. You will influence system design, define reliability standards and reduce operational toil through engineering solutions. This role includes participation in a structured on-call rotation. Who We Are At Roche, we are passionate about transforming patients’ lives, and we are bold in both decision and action - we believe that good business means a better world. That is why we come to work every single day. We commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics and access to medical innovations for all. We do this today to build a better tomorrow. Roche is strongly committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We strive to build teams that represent a range of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. Embracing diversity enables us to create a great place to work and to innovate for patients. Step into the Future of IT with Roche! As a seasoned Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Roche, you will leverage your deep software engineering expertise to propel our products to new heights of robustness, scalability and reliability. This isn't just a role—it's an invitation to shape the backbone of technological innovations forward. Your Mission
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