IT Infrastructure Engineer - RDT Hosting and Infrastructure (HI)

Roche; Madrid; On-site; EUR 52,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Roche is seeking an IT Infrastructure Engineer within the RDT Hosting and Infrastructure team. You will support high performance storage platforms, apply DevOps practices, and work closely with scientists and service providers to deliver reliable research environments.

The role emphasizes automation, scripting, and configuration management to optimize workflows and cluster utilization, with collaboration across product teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or related field.
• 1–3 years of experience in multinational or fast-paced settings.
• Foundational knowledge of distributed storage and parallel file systems.
• Experience with Linux and command-line troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day operations and maintenance across High Performance Storage platforms.
• Apply DevOps practices with automation tools and CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with internal customers and stakeholders across lifecycle stages.
• Analyze and optimize scientific workflows and batch job submission patterns.
• Identify and implement enhancements to systems, workflows and collaboration.

Skills

Bash scripting

Python

Git

Ansible

Terraform

CI/CD

Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu)

HPC / Slurm/LSF

Monitoring tools (Prometheus/Grafana)

English fluency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering/IT

Tools

Git

Ansible

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

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 IT Infrastructure Engineer - RDT Hosting and Infrastructure (HI)

At Roche, we are advancing science to ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need. Our Scientific Computing and Data Infrastructure team delivers cutting-edge computing environments and shared data services across global locations. We incubate, develop, and support next‑generation solutions that empower our Research & Development (R&D) organizations to accelerate discovery. In this role, you will embed directly within cross‑functional product teams to deliver best‑in‑class scientific computing platforms in close partnership with our scientists and external service providers, bridging modern DevOps practices with life‑saving research.

What You’ll Do:

Support day-to-day operations and maintenance across our High Performance Storage (HPS) platforms and parallel file systems, helping ensure system availability, monitor performance and storage efficiency, and assist with structured change management. Apply a DevOps mindset to platform administration by utilizing automation tools, basic infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD pipelines to build, update, and maintain reliable research environments alongside senior engineers. Partner closely with internal customers and key stakeholders across the entire service lifecycle - from initial inception and architecture design through deployment, steady‑state operation, and iterative refinement. Collaborate with researchers to analyze and optimize scientific workflows and batch job submission patterns to maximize cluster utilization and throughput. Proactively identify, propose, and implement enhancements across technical systems, operational workflows, and team collaboration frameworks.

Who You Are:

1–3 years of experience, ideally within a multinational or fast‑paced setting (healthcare or life sciences experience is a plus). Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or a related field. Foundational knowledge of distributed storage and parallel file systems (e.g., GPFS, Lustre, BeeGFS). Working knowledge of Linux distributions (RHEL, CentOS, Rocky, or Ubuntu) and core command-line troubleshooting. Practical ability to write Bash scripts and basic Python for system automation; routine experience using Git. Hands‑on exposure to at least one configuration or automation tool (e.g., Ansible, Terraform) and basic CI/CD concepts. Familiarity with HPC environments, batch job execution, or workload schedulers (e.g., Slurm, LSF). English Fluency. Nice to have: Experience with monitoring systems (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Nagios). #RDT2026

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. We believe it’s urgent to deliver medical solutions right now – even as we develop innovations for the future. We are passionate about transforming patients’ lives. We are courageous in both decision and action. And we believe that good business means a better world. That is why we come to work each 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. We are proud of who we are, what we do, and how we do it. We are many, working as one across functions, across companies, and across the world. We are Roche.