DevOps Infrastructure Engineer - Kubernetes Reliability

About the role

Roche is looking for a DevOps Infrastructure Engineer (Kubernetes Reliability Engineer) for its CaaS team in Madrid. The engineer builds and maintains a Kubernetes-based infrastructure that modernizes business applications and processes, combining software and systems engineering to automate operations. The team delivers, maintains and improves a highly available Kubernetes platform across hybrid cloud deployments, including on-premise data centers and public clouds such as AWS.

Key responsibilities

• Own the full lifecycle of platforms and services, from design and deployment to operation and retirement, and provide self-service tools and APIs for developers
• Design, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and self-healing features
• Handle capacity planning, launch reviews and blameless postmortems, and proactively identify potential outages
• Solve complex problems in the global Kubernetes infrastructure, evaluate solutions through PoCs and feasibility studies, and act as escalation point for major incidents
• Bridge engineering and operations, presenting technical solutions to business stakeholders in non-technical terms and influencing vendor product evaluations
• Mentor developers on building and deploying cloud-native applications
• Provide technical leadership for small-to-medium initiatives, ensure compliance with quality and regulatory standards and the Technical Architecture Framework, and estimate resources, risks and timelines
• Lead geo-distributed initiatives and guide teams across cultures

Required profile

• Experience: 4-7 years without a degree, 2-5 years with a Bachelor's, or 1-3 years with a Master's
• Fluent spoken and written English, ability to work across time zones, and strong independent work and problem-solving skills
• Scrum and Agile experience in always-available service environments
• Understanding of TAF and quality/regulatory compliance standards

Required skills

• Kubernetes and containers, including distributed storage; CKA certification is a strong plus; Rancher or Portworx is beneficial
• Infrastructure as Code with Ansible and Terraform
• Scripting in Python, Bash or Go, including test automation (e.g. pytest)
• CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Rundeck or GitLab
• Linux, networking (DNS, load balancing, firewalls, routing, service meshes) and observability (logging, metrics, alerting)
• AWS managed services (EKS, VPC, IAM)