Data Transfer Engineer

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The Position

As a Data Transfer Engineer within the Accelerated Compute Engineering (ACE) team you will be responsible for owning the high-speed data transfer services that feed our advanced compute environments. With the introduction of our industry-leading AI Factory the ability to move massive petabyte-scale datasets rapidly and securely is more critical than ever. You will own the deployment configuration and ongoing optimization of specialized Data Transfer Appliances that bridge our traditional HPC clusters with our next-generation AI infrastructure. By ensuring seamless high-bandwidth data mobility and aggressively eliminating network and I/O bottlenecks you will play a foundational role in ensuring that our researchers can train complex AI models and execute large-scale computational science workloads without friction.

Description of the area

Hosting and Infrastructure (HI) provides mission-critical on-premise infrastructure cloud hosting connectivity and technology products that enable all functions at every Roche site to develop innovate connect and deliver compliant digital products across the Roche Enterprise.

The Value Streams - Accelerated Compute Engineering (ACE) Team is focused on driving both customer success and platform success by acting as a center of excellence and delivery for the High Performance Compute and AI Infrastructure supporting AI and HPC use cases across Roche. This team facilitates seamless onboarding and adoption for business vertical customers needing accelerated computehelping those infrastructure consumers with needs optimized for high availability seamless data transfer flexibility speed and the rapidly changing needs of AIhelping achieve rapid time-to-value.

Job Responsibilities

Pipeline Architecture & Management

• Own the end-to-end deployment and lifecycle management of specialized Data Transfer Appliances.

• Identify and resolve systemic network and I/O bottlenecks to maximize throughput between storage tiers and compute nodes.

Technical Operations & Optimization

• Manage integration with various storage architectures including Object Storage NAS (NFS) and parallel file systems such as GPFS.

• Implement automation for on-site deployment and configuration of our factory-built and tuned Data Transfer appliances using Ansible Kickstart or Red Hat Satellite to ensure scalable and reproducible environments.

Performance & Monitoring

• Analyze system logs kernel messages and network statistics to proactively monitor the health and performance of the data transfer fabric.

• Define and track success metrics for data mobility providing insights to leadership on infrastructure utilization and performance trends.

User Enablement & Support Experience.

• Explore innovative approaches to drive more frictionless consumption of our Data Transfer appliances e.g Agentic AI and MCP

• Develop user-facing documentation scripts and tools that simplify complex data movement tasks for the broader scientific community.

• Provide high-level technical support isolating complex issues across storage network and application layers in a collaborative cross-functional manner.

Who You Are

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors or an advanced degree in Computer Science Engineering or a similar technical discipline.

• Proven experience in managing large-scale Linux environments (RHEL/rebuilds) with deep proficiency in CLI tools (grep awk sed etc.).

• Demonstrated experience in high-performance computing (HPC) or AI infrastructure environments.

Technical & Business Skills:

• Scripting & Automation: Strong proficiency in Bash and Python scripting along with hands-on experience using Ansible for infrastructure as code.

• Storage & Networking: Deep understanding of parallel file systems (Lustre GPFS) and high-speed networking (InfiniBand TCP/IP tuning).

• Security: Solid grasp of IAM configurations (LDAP AD OIDC) JWT tokens and certificate management.

• Problem Solving: A diagnostic mindset with the ability to interpret complex logs (system kernel network) to isolate performance degradation.

• Technical Communication: Excellent ability in technical English (reading and writing) to document complex architectures and guide users.

Leadership & Mindset:

• Lean & Agile Mindset: You focus on automation and efficiency to scale support and operations.

• Enterprise Mindset: Ability to break down silos and collaborate across organizational boundaries to ensure end-to-end data mobility.

• Intellectual Curiosity: A passion for staying current with major IT market trends specifically in AI hardware and high-speed data movement.

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together more than 100000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities foster creativity and keep our ambitions high so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Lets build a healthier future together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.