Cybersecurity Engineer - Monitoring & Incident Response

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections,  where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

The Global Security Monitoring and Incident Response (MIR) team at Roche strives to keep our networks and users safe from constantly evolving threats. As a Cybersecurity Engineer, you will help protect proprietary information, patient data, keep computer systems clean, and provide a safe information environment for our users. Combing through massive amounts of signals, you will have to identify signs of abuse or compromise of on-premise as well as cloud resources. All team members share a set of core responsibilities, handling incidents, requests from experts, as well as enquiries from end users. Cybersecurity are responsible for monitoring security information, identifying threats, and showing initiative to defend all Roche information systems.

As a member of the Incident Response Enablement team, you are encouraged to support on-call rotation during weekends, and will be mobilized during major incidents.

Job Responsibilities

• Monitoring and Incident Response for a global environment

• Elicit feedback and obtain data to continuously strengthen detection and response processes

• Be a force of proposition to steer continuous improvement efforts, partnering with other teams within the Cybersecurity space

• Enhance the platforms and automations that empower detection, investigation and response

• Drive remediation efforts by turning investigations and lessons learned into structural improvements across the company, partnering with other experts across the Roche group

• Brief peers and leadership on threats relevant to the Roche group

• Communicate information security concepts and situations to senior management

• Organize structured knowledge exchange sessions with partners and peers

• Mentor team members

Qualifications

Education / Experience / Technical Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field and 5+ years of experience in information security, including at least 3 years in a SOC/CERT/CSIRT environment

• Ability to design and implement complex security systems and processes to strengthen Roche’s posture

• Familiarity with TLP and information sharing best practices

• Ability to communicate information security-related concepts and situations to a non-technical audience

• Demonstrated ability to analyze, triage, and escalate information security incidents

• Ability to take decisions, often under pressure and given partial information

• Knowledge of detection engineering and threat-hunting concepts

• Scripting and programming skills (Python, Javascript, Go, Rust)

• Demonstrated knowledge of operating systems (Windows, Linux, macOs )

• Experience in Cloud security for major providers

• Excellent organization and communication skills

• Attention to detail

• Fluent spoken and written English

Additional Qualifications

• Network and Endpoint security monitoring experience in a large complex environment

• Knowledge of modern IAM controls and concepts (Zero Trust, Identity Aware Proxies, Active Directory Security, …)

• Experience designing/building/improving logging, monitoring and detection pipelines

• Capacity to identify vulnerabilities, propose pragmatic hardening measures, and influence platform or development teams

• Familiarity with various defensive AND offensive security toolsets

• A passion for the field of computer and network security

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. 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 global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.