Senior Principal IT/OT Infrastructure Engineer; CVRM
Listed on 2025-10-31
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Engineering
Systems Engineer
The Position
ITOT supports Pharma Technical Manufacturing (PTM), PTM is responsible for managing all aspects of end-to-end drug substance and drug product manufacturing and supply. From the raw material to the final medicine, we contribute to deliver Roche's ground-breaking therapies to more than 120 million patients around the world. We make our medicines at 9 sites around the world and coordinate all aspects of production of Roche medicines in all disease areas and dosage forms.
To ensure readiness for a step-change in the standard of care that Roche delivers in the area of Cardiovascular, Renal and Metabolism (CVRM), PTM will construct a new manufacturing site in the U.S. in Holly Spring, North Carolina. ITOT will own and operate Manufacturing Technology stack at the site working with Global IT. The new site will focus on large volume low cost Drug Product manufacturing (Component Prep & Compounding, Liquid PFS Filling, Automated Inspection, Autoinjector Assembly, Packaging/Finished Products).
Opportunity
A Senior Principal ITOT Infrastructure Engineer is being hired to participate in Greenfield Project execution and then support the facility after going live.
Initially, you will perform a mix of remote and onsite work (first at the General Planner's office, later at construction site/plant). You will transition to local full time on-site work once the site buildings are built and equipment delivered. Travel of up to 30% of the time is expected during the project phase.
What You’ll DoSenior Principal ITOT Infrastructure Engineer (Department: ITOT/Infrastructure - Leadership Role) will be Responsible for providing IT Infrastructure engineering capabilities and experience to the ITOT Group including generating qualification protocols and maintaining the validated state of systems and processes. Initially, participates in Basic Design, Detailed Design and Facility Startup focussed on data center and field IT infrastructure. Eventually focuses on providing long‑term support for newly built facilities with respect to the Infrastructure for process, utility and building systems.
Lead Infrastructure impacting projects with large and/or complex scope. Drive strategic initiatives to improve business processes. Be both a People Leader/ Coach and at times hands on SME. Act as Cyber Security Coordinator / Engineer. Provide basic IT support for Site workplace needs in collaboration with Global IT groups.
- Site Owner of "OT Infrastructure" for Manufacturing System Platforms including Syncade MES, Delta
V Distributed Control System, PLC's, Lab Data Systems (Smartline Data Cockpit) - Site Lead for Global Cyber Security Initiatives
- Site OT Infrastructure Support Lead and Coordinator with Global Infrastructure solutions at site (e.g. support of AD and firewall policies to allow proper access and communication from either AD security or network firewall policies, and commissioning and startup support)
- May eventually expand role to become Regional OT Infrastructure Lead for multiple sites supporting ITOT operating model evolution
- Collaborate with IT Engineers and Architects, Automation Engineers
- Lead and/or provide support for the evaluation, installation, and maintenance of Manufacturing infrastructure including installation and upgrade of control systems hardware, software, control networks, user administration, database administration, security, system monitoring, backup and recovery of Microsoft Windows Server Operating Systems and SQL Databases
- Lead and/or support implementation of OT infrastructure standards and best practices across all Site OT and Process Automation platforms, working with other process automation engineers, IT and OT professionals.
- Support commissioning and startup activity of new process control systems and manufacturing systems (Syncade, Delta
V, PLC's, OSI PI historian, etc). - Be the go‑to Infrastructure expert at the site who bridges the gap between Automation and underlying Storage Compute and Network infrastructure
- Execute control system virtualization administration, user administration, system monitoring, capacity planning, design, installation, configuration, and upgrade of platform.
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