Senior SAP Cloud Engineer — Roche
- Location
- Basel
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- Yesterday
Role overview
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.
- 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.
- Job Responsibilities Scope:
- Platform Engineering, Administration & Capability Development
- Education / Experience
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline.
Main responsibilities
- Job Responsibilities Scope:
- Platform Engineering, Administration & Capability Development
- Lead the administration, development, and continuous evolution of reusable cloud platform capabilities, engineering frameworks, and shared services.
- Manage platform environments, services, identity and access integration, connectivity, and shared platform capabilities.
- Own the end-to-end engineering lifecycle from implementation, delivering scalable, secure, and resilient platform capabilities aligned with platform architecture, engineering standards, and regulatory requirements.
- Engineering Excellence, Automation & Platform Evolution
- Drive engineering excellence by establishing modern engineering practices, including DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automation, and cloud-native engineering patterns.
- Lead technology evaluations, Proofs of Concept (PoCs), and adoption of emerging cloud services while continuously improving platform reliability, operational efficiency, developer experience, and self-service capabilities.
- Technical Leadership & Engineering Delivery
- Provide technical leadership and show accountability across complex platform initiatives by planning engineering capacity, managing technical dependencies and risks, and mentoring engineering teams.
Key requirements
- Education / Experience
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience making strategic technical decisions and leading large to enterprise-level project teams.
- Proven track record of designing, and implementing integrated, reliable enterprise platform capabilities across technology space.
- Experience in estimating complex engineering resources, dependencies, and timelines to deliver successful enterprise projects.
- Experience working with SAP BTP or comparable enterprise cloud platforms. Technical / Business Skills Strong experience with:
- Advanced technical expertise in multiple areas (e.g., Platform, Compute and Storage, Network Management, ERP Technology Management, High Performance Computing, Datacenter Management, or Database Management).
- SAP BTP administration/Cloud-native engineering Infrastructure as Code, Automation framew
Application process
- The Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and evolving reusable SAP BTP /Cloud platform capabilities that enable secure, scalable, and efficient application development across the enterprise.
- The role requires transforming architectural decisions into production-ready capabilities, automation, engineering frameworks, and reusable services.
- Working closely with Platform Architecture and Platform Operations.
- The role ensures platform capabilities are engineered with reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience at the forefront.
- The Platform Engineering Lead drives innovation through technical exploration, proof-of-concepts, engineering standards, automation, and platform modernization while enabling application teams to consume SAP BTP through standardized patterns.
- This role provides technical leadership across platform engineering initiatives and is accountable for engineering quality, execution, and continuous improvement of the platform.
Additional details
- Join Roche, where every voice matters. Job Responsibilities
- Experience working with SAP BTP or comparable enterprise cloud platforms. Technical / Business Skills Strong experience with:
- SAP BTP administration/Cloud-native engineering Infrastructure as Code, Automation framew
Notes and original content
- Join Roche, where every voice matters.
- The Position
- Job Responsibilities
- Qualifications
- Experience working with SAP BTP or comparable enterprise cloud platforms.
- Technical / Business Skills
- Strong experience with:
- SAP BTP administration/Cloud-native engineering
- Infrastructure as Code, Automation framew
Questions about this listing
What salary does Roche offer for this role?
Roche lists CHF 85'500 - 129'500 gross per year for this position in Basel. This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does Roche offer?
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