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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. 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.

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 compute-helping those infrastructure consumers with needs optimized for high availability, seamless data transfer, flexibility, speed, and the rapidly changing needs of AI-helping achieve rapid time-to-value.



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. 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.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. Bachelor's 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.

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). Solid grasp of IAM configurations (LDAP, AD, OIDC), JWT tokens, and certificate management. A diagnostic mindset with the ability to interpret complex logs (system, kernel, network) to isolate performance degradation. Excellent ability in technical English (reading and writing) to document complex architectures and guide users.

Lean & Agile Mindset: You focus on automation and efficiency to scale support and operations. Ability to break down silos and collaborate across organizational boundaries to ensure end-to-end data mobility. A passion for staying current with major IT market trends, specifically in AI hardware and high-speed data movement.

Together, more than 100'000 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 general impact.

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