[IT Delivery Center] DevOps/Cloud Engineer

Company Description

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

Job Description

As a team member you will act as the liaison between cloud architects and regional and local IT teams as well as local business stakeholders. Based on the knowledge, the team will help application teams modernize their applications to suit cloud-based deployment and modern authentication. 

How can you help us?  

The main objectives are: 

• Design and implement cloud-based solutions on Azure, AWS & OpenStack 
• Mentor, Manage and optimize multiple Kubernetes clusters (AKS, EKS, Rancher) 
• Implement and maintain the Terraform- based release and configuration management solution. 
• Idempotent configuration management using PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) 
• Collaborate, consult, train and support different IT teams to adopt and implement the new standards and ways of working. 
• Help various IT teams cover major incidents 

Examples of tasks: 

• Contact regional IT team, collect requirements and implement standard operating procedures. 
• Deploy an application landing zone in your Azure or AWS environment using the Terraform and Azure DevOps based framework. 
• GitOps approach to solving technical problems.
• Advise application teams on Cloud Adoption patterns and advice. 
• Serving as an escalation point for all IT teams for support and troubleshooting, 
• Provide quality documentation in an automated fashion, facilitating understanding and knowledge sharing. 
• Collaborate closely with the rest of the IT infrastructure and operations, architecture, application and security teams. 
• Identify opportunities to innovate, automate, and simplify delivery by contributing Terraform code and developing modules based on common patterns. 

What can we do for you? 

Benefits: 

We offer the following: 

• A competitive salary package including bonuses and benefits 
• Extensive training and on-the-job training opportunities 
• Challenges within a multicultural and cross-regional team as part of the international and fast-growing organization Eurofins 
• A dynamic work environment with a good team spirit, where personal development and growth are highly encouraged 

Qualifications

Qualifications and experience: 

• At least 2 years of proven hands-on experience in complex IT environments. 
• Extensive knowledge of IT Services and their relationships in complex environments 
• Ability to learn and think out-of-the-box. 
• Capable of code analysis and reverse engineering. 
• Positive attitude in the face of challenges 

Necessary: 

• AWS and/or Azure (operations and infrastructure) 
• Good Linux/Windows OS administration and scripting skills (PowerShell DSC preferred) 
• Deep knowledge and experience with Kubernetes 
• Monitoring and alerting systems. e.g. DataDog, Icinga, Nagios 
• Security and Registration Tools. 
• Identity and access management using EntraID  (Azure AD) 
• Automation and implementation of e.g. Terraform, DSC, Ansible, Helm, Azure DevOps 
• Cloud Native Firewall Management 
• CheckPoint Firewall Management 
• GitOps Practitioner 
• Software distribution and software packaging 
• Solid networking knowledge 
• English language at an advanced level 

Additional Information

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity!  As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us!  We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more on our Careers page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 63,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 companies across 60 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

In 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.95 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.