Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer (Python)- Software Engineering / UI’s/Kubernetes / Python /AWS / Pytest /Terraform / Grafana / GitLab / English

Background:

The 21st century needs a 21st century healthcare system. To help build this, Roche is not only developing personalized medicine and advanced diagnostics, but also heavily investing into software and digital solutions. To speed up medical processes, make them safer and more accessible to a wide range of people.

The team you’re joining is running Kubernetes operations at a large scale. Think of deploying and managing thousands, even tens-of-thousands of Kubernetes clusters around the world. That requires end-to-end automation, APIs, great user experience (UIs) and rock-solid orchestration.

If you are excited to shape the way healthcare is working in the coming decade, we would love to welcome you in our highly skilled team – which strives to become a role model for the entire Industry

The perfect candidate:

With this position we are looking for a skilled software engineer, who brings a lot of motivation and willingness to take on responsibility for entire software projects, from design to implementation and deployment! Ideally you bring significant experience (5+ years) in software engineering on large-scale projects or high-growth environments (any language), with your more recent work focusing on Python.

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Coding! … including contributions to open-source software that we use or maintain!
• Writing and implementing design documents (RFCs)
• Documenting your creations, as well as ensuring great automated test coverage
• Serving as a role model – and helping the team to follow software engineering best-practices

Must Haves:

• Highly motivated Software Engineer with ownership mindset
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, ideally in large-scale or high-growth environments
• Strong background in scalable systems and modern engineering practices
• Recent hands-on experience with Python
• Business domain: compute infrastructure & platforms
• Experience with Kubernetes (usage, concepts, and operations)
• Familiarity with public cloud environments such as AWS
• Experience in test automation, ideally with pytest
• Proactive, solution-oriented, and eager to takeresponsibility
• English fluent is a MUST

Nice to haves:

• Interest in or experience with tools such as HashiCorp Vault, FluxCD, Kustomize, Terraform, Grafana, GitLab, Slack, and Linear

Reference Nr.: 924956
Rolle: Senior Software Engineer
Industrie: Pharma
Location: Kaiseraugst
Pensum: 80 – 100%
Start: Asap (01.08.2026)
Duration: 12+ months
Deadline: 09.07.2026

If this position has piqued your interest, please send us your complete resume. If this position does not quite match your profile and you would like to receive other positions directly, you can also send us your resume via this ad or to jobs[at]itcag[dot]com.

Contact us for more information about our company, our positions, or our attractive payroll-only program: +41 41 760 77 01.

About us:

ITech Consult is an ISO 9001:2015-certified Swiss company with offices in Germany and Ireland. ITech Consult specializes in placing highly qualified candidates for temporary staffing in the fields of IT, life sciences, and engineering. We offer temporary staffing and payroll services. This is free of charge for our candidates, and we do not charge any additional fees for payroll services.