OSS Lead - RDT Quality, Risk & Compliance

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The Position

As a DevOps Infrastructure Engineer at the SE8 level, you will establish the technical direction for multiple platforms and oversee their entire lifecycle, ensuring seamless alignment with organizational goals. Applying exceptional problem-solving skills, you will resolve intricate challenges across multiple domains, lead cross-functional teams, and oversee critical system implementations. Exhibiting profound expertise and thought leadership, you will influence technology direction, shape the global DevOps culture, and engage in high-level strategic decision-making to drive enterprise-wide innovation.

Description of the area

Job Responsibilities

• Scope / (Content Leadership):Establishes the technical direction for the whole lifecycle of multiple heterogeneous and interrelated platforms and services-from inception through deployment, operation, and retirement. Applies software engineering principles to build large-scale IT infrastructure, abstracting away complexity to provide self-service tools for developers. Provides technical guidance for designing complex CI/CD pipelines, designs self-healing strategies, and leads Disaster Recovery design and execution plans.

• Accountability/Problem Solving:Leverages exceptional problem-solving skills to tackle intricate challenges across multiple domains, ensuring cohesive strategies that drive organization-wide performance. Leads the maintenance of live services by designing metrics and identifying critical metrics for SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs. Accountable for availability, capacity planning, tuning, and leading large initiatives aimed at optimizing interrelated platforms for scalability.

• Stakeholder Management:Demonstrates superior customer and delivery focus by proactively leading partnerships and influencing at senior levels with developers, managers, Managed Services suppliers, and vendors. Acts as a reference model analyst and integrates insights across customers and partners to inform customer-centric IT decisions.

• Impact/Strategy:Responsible for implementing and updating cost, compliance, and security best practices while ensuring solutions comply with Quality/Regulatory standards. Leads complex audit exercises and remediation plans, manages ITSM processes, and continuously scales systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation.

• Complexity/ (Product Size):Exhibits superior ability to collaborate globally with diverse, virtual teams, fostering success and alignment across multiple domains. Leads geo-distributed teams through influence and mentorship, providing visionary guidance and driving excellence.

• Business/Technical ability:Technically leads the definition of computing infrastructure entirely under software control. Designs and leads the implementation of Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) and CI/CD pipelines. Flexes and thrives in ambiguous environments undergoing transformational change and applies innovation to foster business strategy.

Qualifications

Education / Experience

• Proven experience leading geo-distributed teams through influence and mentorship, providing visionary guidance across multiple domains.

• Demonstrated experience applying design thinking, lean, prioritization, and agile methodologies to evolve services.

• Ability to flex and thrive in an ambiguous environment undergoing transformational change.

Technical Skills

• Proven hands-on technical skills in automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), logging, monitoring, observability, infrastructure configuration, and scripting languages.

• Proven wide experience applying Software Engineering principles and automated testing to lead the implementation of Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) and complex CI/CD pipelines.

• Deep and wide experience working with infrastructure system internals, including availability, capacity, configuration, scalability, performance, and integrations.

• Proven wide experience defining Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs).

• Expertise in specific technology areas: Platform, Compute and Storage OR Network Management OR ERP Technology Management OR High Performance Computing OR Datacenter Management OR Database Management.

Additional Qualifications

• Proven broad experience boosting DevOps principles, processes, and tools across the organization.

• Strong capability to lead complex audit exercises and oversee Disaster Recovery execution plans.

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, 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 an Equal Opportunity Employer.