DevOps Engineer

Why are we here?

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.

In a nutshell

As a DevOps Engineer, 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, you will help application teams modernize their applications to suit cloud-based deployment and modern authentication.

Where will you be based and what business will you support?

Based in Nantes, France; you will be part of a globally distributed team that supports and operate IT Infrastructure for two of our major programmes (Appolo & eClinical IT Applications).

How can you help us?

You will:

• Design and implement cloud-based solutions on Azure, AWS & OpenStack;
• Manage and optimize multiple Kubernetes clusters (AKS, EKS, Rancher);
• Implement and maintain the Terraform- based release solution;
• Idempotent configuration management using PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC);
• Collaborate closely with the rest of the IT infrastructure and operations, architecture, application and security teams;
• Help various IT teams cover major incidents;
• 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;
• Resort to a GitOps approach to solving technical problems.;
• Advise application teams on Cloud Adoption patterns and advice;
• Serve as an escalation point for all IT teams to do support and troubleshooting;
• Provide quality documentation, enabling smooth day-to-day operations;
• 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.

Are you our kind of extraordinary?

You have:

• At least 3 years of proven hands-on experience in complex IT environments, IT Services and their relationships. Including:

• Microsoft Azure and/or Azure (operations and infrastructure) experience;
• Good Linux/Windows OS administration and scripting skills (PowerShell, or DSC preferred);
• Deep knowledge and experience with Kubernetes and similar products, e.g. AKS, EKS;
• Monitoring and alerting systems experience. E.g. DataDog, Icinga, Nagios;
• Experience with Security and Registration Tools;
• Identity and access management experience, using Azure AD;
• Automation and implementation experience ( for e.g.: Terraform, DSC, Ansible, Helm or Azure DevOps);
• Cloud Native Firewall Management experience;
• CheckPoint Firewall Management experience;
• GitOps practical experience;
• Software distribution and software packaging experience;
• Solid networking knowledge;
• English language skills, at an advanced level;
• A positive attitude in the face of challenges.

You are:

• Able to learn and think out-of-the-box.
• Capable of performing code analysis and reverse engineering.

What can do for you?

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

What can we offer you?

• A competitive salary package, including bonus and benefits;
• Extensive on-the-job coaching and training opportunities;
• A hybrid working setup;
• Challenges within a multi-cultural and cross-regional team as part of the international and fast-growing Eurofins organization;
• A dynamic working environment with a good team spirit where personal development and growth are highly encouraged.

Your application:

As the role and Eurofins' IT Talent Acquisition team are international, please ensure to submit your application in English.

Want to know more about us?

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! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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 also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!

Find out more in our career 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 is the 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 one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 63,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 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 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.