Senior Administrator for Middleware

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People come to Genentech from across disciplines and across the world to solve our most challenging medical conditions. You’ll find inspiration in our passion for biotechnology, our purpose to positively impact the lives of millions of patients and our dedication to our people. Joining Genentech means being part of a tradition of inquiry that will change the world. It means embracing our failures as much as our successes. It requires a willingness to look beyond the edge of what's possible. And a focus on doing the day-to-day work that makes great science happen. 

The following opportunity exists in our South San Francisco, CA headquarters:

Senior Administrator for Middleware

Description

This role is to provide senior level technical operational support, administration and maintenance of the Application Integration and Middleware  platforms, ensuring services meet operational targets, achieve high availability and performance, whilst managing other aspects such as lifecycle management, continuous improvement, and delivering on partner projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Operational support for global platforms and components, for integration and web technologies, like: JBoss, Apache, Webmethods, API management platforms, etc.

• Install, configure, upgrade, troubleshoot, and proactively monitor to ensure availability, performance and capacity.  

• Manage incidents, problems, changes and releases.

• Represent team in partner projects as needed and deliver on commitments.

• Develop business and technical know-how within area of expertise for the function.

• Comply with OLAs and quality and CSV validation requirements.

Who You Are

Requirements

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, ability to work effectively with a remote and multicultural team, always following a collaborative and supportive approach.

• Be able to self-manage, be a problem solver, critical thinker, proactive and accountable.

• Possess a strong customer focus together with a highly responsive service delivery and support ethic.

• Senior level hands-on technical skills, operational background, strong problem-solving and analytical skills, troubleshooting, capacity planning and root cause analysis.

• Working knowledge of JBoss, Apache, F5, Nginx, Node.js, Webmethods, JBoss DV, API management

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or business field, or equivalent experience.  Industry recognized certifications in the relevant technology areas are considered a plus.

• 8+ years of increasing technical IT experience

• Experience on at least one scripting /automation technology (e.g.: ansible, jenkins...), and APIs development and integration

• Prior use of DevOps, Lean or/and other agile methodologies.

• Knowledge and working experience in application infrastructure administration for one or more of the following platforms is a must:  JBoss, Apache, F5, Nginx, Node.js, Webmethods, JBoss DV, API management

• Operational understanding and knowledge/administration experience of  technologies associated with Web Application Hosting, Application integration, EII

• Desirable: Prior use of DevOps, Lean or/and other agile methodologies.

• Desirable: Prior experience working in a Global organization, considered a plus.

Additional Information

• This position has regular on-call duty

• Some out-of-business-hours maintenance work.

• Able to travel as required.

• This position is not eligible for Relocation.

A Job with Benefits Beyond the Benefits
A member of the Roche Group, Genentech has been at the forefront of the biotechnology industry for more than 40 years, using human genetic information to develop novel medicines for serious and life-threatening diseases. Genentech has multiple therapies on the market for cancer & other serious illnesses. Please take this opportunity to learn about Genentech where we believe that our employees are our most important asset & are dedicated to remaining a great place to work.

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