Senior AMI Builder

Senior AMI Builder – Unix/Linux, Cloud Security and Serverless Architectures, AWS, Python / Bash

Role:
For our client in the Pharma industry based in Kaiseraugst we are looking for a Senior AMI Builder.

Roche’s expanding digital product portfolio demonstrates its commitment to provide
healthcare professionals, laboratories, and patients with digital and digitally-enabled
solutions that transform patient care. The existing product portfolio includes decision support
systems, data management solutions, and workflow solutions. At the center of these diverse
types of solutions is always patient data security and privacy as the highest priority for
Roche.
In this context, Roche has built a global team that builds, secures, and operates
infrastructure platforms (cloud and on-prem) for its digital products. This team is working with
a high freedom to operate in a self-organized setup and is responsible for tackling the
cybersecurity, compliance, and infrastructure challenges of the healthcare industry while
enabling high-velocity product development.

Areas of responsibility:
* As an AMI builder Engineer you will create Linux and Windows AMI in automated fashion,
integrating AWS services with external tools such as GitLab or jFrog Artifactory.
* You are comfortable in designing, building, deploying, and operating EC2 Instances made
out of our custom AMIs.
* Build custom and hardened Amazon Machine Images and responsible for systems
functionality, performance and configuration issues.
* Configure platform agents and introduce system automation to perform Unit, Functional,
Compliance and Performance tests
* Administration of Linux servers, Virtual Machines and Networks using automated
configuration management tools (Bare-metal, private data-centre and Cloud)
* Automate manual tasks with scripts and other tools
* Strong understanding of TCPIP, Linux OS and Process automation
* 20% operations tickets

Professional and technical requirements:
* Min. 7+ years of experience in Unix/Linux systems (security, tuning, performance and
kernel experience)
* Min 5+ years of experience in Cloud Security and Serverless Architectures (Microservices
and event driven architecture) – (Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Step-Functions, ECS, EKS)
* AWS Certification – Professional / Developer or any similar certification
* Min 2+ years of experience in Proficient in Python / Bash
* Min 2+ years of experience in developing command-line and standalone applications and
Infrastructure-as-Code and related tools (Terraform / CloudFormation / CI / CD )
* Min 2+ years of experience in AMI Builder tools and OS testing frameworks (ansible,
packer, inspec, Git) / RPM and DEB packaging systems
* It mostly applies to 1:1 communication with product teams by supporting them with
clarification and regarding problems that affect internal products (AMIs), AWS Accounts or
3rd party tools/services (CloudFlare, Dome9, .. ).
* Reach out to colleagues while facing problems and documenting the findings once, the
issue gets addressed. Open to collaborate, great attitude and positive mindset.
* Ability to analyse problems and deep dive into internal documentation or source code.
Proactive approach to solve problems by learning new things at the same time.
* Comfortable working under pressure and ready to work long hours when required.
Nice to Haves:
* Programming skills: Experience in any one or more : C / GoLang / Ruby /Perl, Powershell
advanced scripting
* Expert experience with Networking and troubleshootinΩΩTCP/IP , DNS, Routing,
Switching, firewalls, LAN/WAN ( Traceroute, iperf, dig, cURL or related, Tcpdump / Wireshark )
* Able to produce consistent workload and analyse system behaviour
* OS Tuning / Monitoring (e.g. Put system under stress and collect results, define
performance KPI and Metrics)

Reference no: 921143 AD
Role: Senior AMI Builder
Industry: Pharmaceutical industry
Workload: 100%
Location: Kaiseraugst, Switzerland
Start date: asap
Duration: 4 months contract, with possible extension

About us:
ITech Consult is a certified ISO 9001:2015 Swiss company with offices also located in Germany and
Ireland. ITech Consult is specialised in delivering IT candidates for contract work. We were founded in
1997 by IT professionals; hence we well understand what it means to be professionally supported in your
search for a new project and being employed.