DevOps Engineer/Expert

DevOps Engineer/Expert vacancy for our Basel based client in the Pharma sector.

Your tasks:

• Design, build, and operate infrastructure to support Debian-based Linux distributions used in medical devices
• Integrate and manage hardware, including selection, ordering, assembling, and hardware-in-the-loop testing
• Develop and maintain high-availability clusters and core infrastructure services such as build servers, CI runners, and artifact repositories
• Create and manage declarative Infrastructure as Code solutions, monitoring, alerting, and inventory management
• Integrate cloud and on-premises services, ensuring robust lifecycle management and disaster recovery procedures
• Build and maintain pipelines (GitHub) for continuous integration and deployment

Your experience/knowledge:

• 8+ years of professional experience in Software, Infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps or related fields
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline
• Proven ability to build infrastructure platforms from the ground up, including user-facing services and production environments
• Strong understanding of infrastructure architecture, reliability, security, and operational best practices
• Language skills: English

Your soft skills:

• Strong collaboration and communication with software engineers, solution architects, and technical stakeholders
• Ability to lead technical initiatives and drive infrastructure improvements
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the capacity to work independently in fast-paced environments

Location: Zug, Switzerland
Work setting: Hybrid
Sector: Pharma
Start: ASAP
Duration: 12 months
Workload: 100%
Ref.Nr.: BH 24324

Take the next step and send us your resume along with a daytime phone number where we can reach you.

Due to Swiss work permit restrictions, we can only consider applications from Swiss nationals, EU citizens, and current work-permit holders for Switzerland.

We welcome applications from individuals of all genders, age groups, sexual orientations, personal expressions, ethnic backgrounds, and religious beliefs. Therefore, there is no requirement to provide gender information or a photo in your application.

As per client requirements, we need information about your marital status, nationality, date of birth, and a valid Swiss work permit. For applicants with disabilities, we are happy to explore potential solutions with our end client.

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Every application is reviewed personally by our recruiting team - no AI-based screening is used in our selection process.

Background:

We are a specialized team of Linux SW and HW Experts providing Debian-based Roche Linux

distribution along with know-how, expertise, and support to various Roche’s medical devices.

We are currently looking for an experienced DevOps/Infrastructure engineer to strengthen our team.

The ideal candidate is excited about new technologies and loves challenges.

In this role, you will be a core contributor and consultant, ensuring the Roche Linux platform is robust,

secure, and perfectly tailored to the demanding world of MedTech.

The perfect candidate is an Infrastructure Engineer with 8+ years of experience building and managing scalable infrastructure and user-facing services. They have strong collaboration skills, work effectively with software developers and solution engineers, and can communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences. A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field is required. English fluency is essential; German is a plus.

General Information:

• Start date: asap

• latest Start Date: asap

• Planned duration: 12 months from start date

• Extension (in case of limitation): possible

• Max. Bill Rate: 120.00 CHF
• Workplace: Rotkreuz
• Workload: 80-100%

• Home Office:Onsite 50% , home office possible, flexible working hours

• Travel: no

• Hiring Manager: Anjali Sharma

• Department: RDT

• Working hours: Standard

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Contribute to RLX infrastructure from all the way to hardware and physical network to building

and maintaining on-premises HA clusters with all their infrastructure services

• Select, order, assemble and integrate hardware for the infrastructure

• Contribute to the RLX hardware in the loop testing infrastructure

• Create and operate the platform for our high level services (build servers, ci runners, artifact

repositories)

• Integrate the infrastructure with external dependencies (compute, storage, network provided

by the company and facilities available on site, and also with service dependencies, such as

GitLab, GitHub, Artifactory, Slack)

• Create declarative infrastructure as code solution for infrastructure management

• Build and maintain monitoring, alerting and inventory management services

• Provide a platform for developer self service, that allows devs to experiment or solution

engineers to take over a hardware in a loop device for debugging and testing

• Design a lifecycle management solution for the infrastructure and the hardware in the loop

hardware components

• Design, implement, test and maintain the backup, emergency and disaster recovery

procedures for the infrastructure and the services

• Manage the cloud infrastructure

• Integrate cloud and on premises infrastructure and services

• Design, build and maintain pipelines (GitHub)

Must Haves:

• 8+ years of professional experience in Software Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, or a related field. *****

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related engineering discipline.

• Proven track record of designing, building, and operating infrastructure platforms from the ground up, including user-facing services and production environments. *****

• Strong understanding of infrastructure architecture, reliability, security, and operational excellence.

• Experience collaborating closely with:

• Software Engineers

• Solution Architects

• Product and Platform teams

• Customer-facing technical stakeholders

• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives, drive infrastructure improvements, and influence engineering best practices. *****

• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently in fast-paced environments. *****

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Professional proficiency in English (written and spoken).

Nice to Have:

• Experience in Virtualization / Container technologies, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines

• Experience with cloud providers (e.g. AWS) and IaC (e.g. Terraform)

• Experience in Embedded Software, Hardware Drivers, ARM Platform, hardware / software

integration

• German language skills are a plus, but not required.

Next steps:

• Interviews will start at the end of June 2026, 2 rounds planned, 1st. Round online, 2nd round onsite.

• Info: Please note that this job posting will be halted on 18.06.26 at

• Please upload the degree certificate as well as the latest reference letter.

• Only Contractors with a completed education can be considered.

• CVs have to be uploaded in English.

• This advertisement could be subject to the job registration requirement. If this is the case, please let us know and we extend the advertisement by 2 working days.

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