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Our team delivers scientific computing and data-shared infrastructure services in several locations. We incubate, develop, and support new solutions to support 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, parallel file systems, workload managers, Linux system administration, scripting and a DevOps approach to platform administration.

The Opportunity:

Support operational platform activities on High Performance Computing (HPC), Linux systems, storage platforms and parallel filesystems (focus on availability, tuning, performance, efficiency and change management).

Delivery of the environment with a DevOps approach to platform administration.

Engage with customers and stakeholders to improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design through deployment, operation and refinement. 

Contribute to workflow and job submission optimization activities.

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

Who you are:

6-9 years of experience of working in one or more multinational and fast changing environments (e.g. healthcare industry experience is a plus) as a senior systems 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  SLURM, IBM LSF, UGE).

Experience working with Parallel Filesystem (e.g. GPFS, Lustre, BeeGFS).

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.

Relocation benefits are not available for this job posting.

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.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.