Kubernetes Reliability Engineer

** Kubernetes Reliability Engineer
** A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.  The CaaS IT Infrastructure Engineer is a highly skilled expert responsible for solving complex business problems using advanced cloud native technologies.

The engineer will build and maintain a Kubernetes-based infrastructure, enabling the modernization of business applications and processes.  This role combines software and systems engineering to optimize systems, increase efficiency, and eliminate operational work through automation.
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* The Opportunity:

** You will be part of the global CaaS infrastructure team at a leading healthcare company, working with members across different regions. The team's mandate is to deliver, maintain, and continuously improve a highly available Kubernetes platform across hybrid cloud deployments, including on-premise data centers and public clouds like AWS. In this role, you will apply software engineering principles to operations to build and run massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems, focusing heavily on automation, security, and observability.

* ** Scope:
** Engages in and improves autonomously the whole lifecycle of platforms and services—from inception and design through deployment, operation, and retirement. Applies software engineering principles to build and manage large-scale IT infrastructure products, abstracting away complexity by providing self-service tools and APIs for developers. Designs, implements, and maintains CI/CD pipelines and develops self-healing features.
* ** Service Reliability and Optimization:
** Focus on capacity planning and launch reviews for services before they go live. Perform blameless postmortems and proactive identification of potential outages to foster iterative improvements
* ** Accountability/Problem Solving:
** Resolves complex problems in a global Kubernetes-based infrastructure through in-depth evaluation of variable factors, including inter-organizational impact, balanced with effective consultative engagement of key stakeholders. Leads end-to-end design of infrastructure solutions and maintains component standards. Evaluates promising solutions via Proof of Concept (PoCs) and feasibility studies across multiple areas, and serves as an internal escalation point for major incidents
* ** Stakeholder Management:
** Acts as a bridge between engineering and operations. Communicates and presents complex information and potential solutions to cross-functional teams and the business in non-technical terms. Represents the organization as a prime contact on initiatives and interacts with senior internal and external personnel. Uses deep knowledge to influence IT infrastructure vendor product evaluations and collaborates with multiple IT partners (e.g. Enterprise Architects, Solution Owners) to integrate feedback.

Mentors and shares Dev Ops culture, guiding developers on how to create and deploy cloud-native applications
* ** Impact/Strategy:
** Provides technical leadership and direction for small-to-medium sized initiatives (projects, lifecycle work, PoCs). Ensures solutions comply with Quality/Regulatory standards and that designs adhere to the organization’s Technical Architecture Framework (TAF) policies and directions. Assists in planning technology projects, estimating engineering resources, dependencies, risks and timelines for successful delivery
* ** Complexity:
** Demonstrates the ability to lead geo-distributed initiatives across different locations and cultural backgrounds through influence and…