At Roche, you can be authentically yourself and are valued for your unique qualities. Our culture fosters personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections. Here, you are appreciated, accepted, and respected for who you are—creating an environment where you can grow both personally and professionally. Together, we aim to prevent, halt, and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare—today and in the future. Join Roche, where every voice matters. The Position**Principal DevOps Engineer (DevOps Lead)** 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. **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 Opportunity** The Principal DevOps Engineer (DevOps Lead) is a key member of the engineering and DevOps teams and will apply knowledge of design principles and best practices in implementing complex, enterprise-scale software systems. The Principal Engineer is a hands-on leader of the DevOps function. General responsibilities include generating design concepts, participating in reviews of components or features, developing and testing the core software stack, and conducting reliability testing. **Key Responsibilities:** * Software Development: This is a software development position focused on writing high-quality software that scales effectively, remains maintainable, and supports future extensibility. * 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. * Leadership: Foster a culture that values technical excellence alongside support and compassion for individuals. * Evangelism: As a key evangelist, you will promote healthy DevSecOps software development practices across the Roche Engineering Community. **Who You Are:** * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field. * 10+ years of hands-on experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure), with AWS preferred; at least 5 years of that experience must be in the software industry. * Scripting experience is required and highly desirable using shell, Python, Ruby, or similar languages. * Experience leading DevOps teams and building/maturing CI/CD pipelines. * Expertise across DevSecOps domains, including CI/CD (build & release), internal tooling, and production operations. * Build and operate tools that monitor backend production environments; ensure backend services scale cost-effectively; develop tooling frameworks; assist development teams in resolving production issues. * Hands-on system administration experience with Unix-based systems, including system configuration and networking (DNS, DHCP, routing tables, and routing). * Experience automating infrastructure as code: AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, etc. * Hands-on automation development using Chef or Ansible is desirable. * Experience deploying or managing large-scale distributed Unix environments; participation in on-call rotations alongside engineers responsible for production backends; comfort with large-scale production systems and technologies, including load balancing, monitoring, distributed systems, and/or configuration management. * Experience with modern cloud-extended platforms such as Docker containers, Mesos, and/or Kubernetes. * Experience in production operations, including logging and monitoring. * Experience in NOC (Network Operations Center) and prior SRE experience is a strong plus. **Leadership Skills:** You lead with a focus on long-term business impact rather than short-term wins. You see the bigger picture beyond today and concentrate on what truly matters. You are responsible for the overall direction of our DevOps capabilities and for driving consistency and efficiency across the Data Platform & Insights Services Chapter. You will drive the internal technical backlog across product teams to continuously improve and enhance how we deploy, monitor, and maintain our systems. You master the unexpected and encourage disruptive thinking. The Principal DevOps Engineer is expected to embody the Roche Operating Principles and contribute to the Roche Group. The Roche Operating Principles are: * Put patients first * Follow the science * Act as one team * Embrace differences * Accelerate learning * Simplify radically * Make impact now * Think long term **Who we are:** A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100,000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advancing science and ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact. Let’s build a healthier future, together. 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. Roche is an equal opportunity employer. Who we are A healthier future drives us to innovate. More than 100,000 employees worldwide work together to advance science and ensure everyone has access to healthcare—today and for future generations. Through our commitment, over 26 million people are treated with our medicines and more than 30 billion tests are performed using our Diagnostics products. We encourage each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and set ambitious goals to deliver life-changing healthcare solutions. Together, we can shape a healthier future. **Roche is an equal opportunity employer.**