Senior HPC Engineer

at  Roche

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The Position
Mississauga (Canada)
Madrid (Spain)
And as the world evolves, so do we. For over 125 years, we have taken on some of the most complex challenges in healthcare.
As a Senior HPC (High Performance Computing) Engineer, you will be part of the High Performance Computing section of Roche Informatics, responsible for implementing, operating and evolving computing and data IT infrastructure solutions, supporting our Research and Development organizations to enable science in Roche.
The position will involve working within product teams to deliver the best class scientific computing platforms, in partnership with our scientists and service providers. The position requires knowledge of high performance computing platforms, cluster configurations, workload managers, Linux system administration, scripting and a DevOps approach to platform administration.

The Opportunity:

• Engages in and improves the whole lifecycle of platforms and services by applying software engineering principles to build and manage large scale IT infrastructure products and services (both on-premises or in public cloud) optimizing: a) services reliability, availability, capacity and performance and eliminating work through automation b) software development and deployment by providing self-service tools and APIs for developers..
• Designs, implements and maintains CI/CD pipelines, enabling developers to easily build, test, and deploy their applications.
• Ensures IT infrastructure services reach and maintain the agreed service level indicators (SLIs), objectives (SLOs), agreements (SLAs) in compliance with QA requirements.
• Contributes identifying critical metrics used to establish service level indicators (SLIs), objectives (SLOs), agreements (SLAs).
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
• Responsible for availability, tuning, performance, efficiency, change and configuration management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning.
• Manages ITSM process(es) and track resolution for reporting and resolving incidents, problems, changes, requests and releases.
• Act as an analyst by transforming complex customers and developers needs into specific technical requirements.

Who you are:

• 6-9 years of experience of working in one or more multinational work environments (e.g. healthcare industry experience is a plus) as a senior systems or software Engineer with minimum Bachelor’s degree; Master’s degree preferred.
• Background in Linux/Unix Server technologies (RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu plus Satellite / Foreman); Linux/Unix High-Performance Computing (HPC) Clusters configurations and workload managers (ie IBM LSF, SLURM).
• Wide experience applying infrastructure automation tools, infrastructure as code, scripting languages, logging, monitoring and observability, infrastructure configuration, and applications; Infrastructure as code: AWX, Ansible, Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, SaltStack or equivalents.
• Coding and scripting: PHP, Python, YAML, shell, Perl and/or Ruby or equivalents; distributed version control and source code management tools: GIT, bitbucket, github, gitlab or equivalents.
• Monitoring and observability (e.g. LogicMonitor, Nagios, Ganglia, ELK).
• Experience working according to DevOps principles, processes and tools as well as experience applying design thinking, lean, prioritization and agile methodologies to evolve services offered to partners.

This role is not open for relocation support.
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 Pharma Canada has its office in Mississauga, Ontario and employs over 850 employees. The Mississauga facility is bright, vibrant, fosters collaboration and teamwork, and is reflective of Roche’s truly innovative culture.
As of January 4, 2022, Roche requires all new employees who work in Canada to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 on the date they take office. This requirement is a condition of employment at Roche that applies regardless of whether the position is on a Roche campus or remotely. If you have a valid reason for not being fully immunized, which is limited to certain specific medical reasons or other valid reasons protected by applicable human rights laws, you may request an exemption and / or adaptation measures regarding this vaccination requirement.
Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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