IT Infrastructure Network Engineer

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, which provides a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries. The Group believes it is the world leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and for supporting clinical studies. In addition, Eurofins is one of the leading global emerging players in specialty clinical diagnostic testing.

In 2018, Eurofins generated 4.2 billion Euro proforma turnover in 800 laboratories across 47 countries, employing about 45.000 staff.

REPORTING TO: Service Delivery Lead, Food, Feed and Environment Testing Europe

OVERALL OBJECTIVES: As part of the IT Infrastructure Support Team for Eurofins Food, Feed & Environment Testing Europe, you will join a growing international team to work on strategic IT Infrastructure projects. Your role will be to design & implement new infrastructure or migrate the existing network components. You will collaborate with Project & Implementation Managers as well as other Infrastructure team members on daily basis. It will require networking and network security skills. Open mind and ability to cooperate with multiple individuals in a multicultural environment is essential.

You will get an opportunity to drive Eurofins major IT Infrastructure transition and transformation across Food, Feed & Environment Testing Europe businesses

SPECIFIC ASSIGNMENTS:

· Design, plan and implement network IT Infrastructure for Transformation / Integration / Segregation throughout Food and Environment testing businesses across Europe. These projects will be aimed to perform installations, configuration and migrations of enterprise-level network IT infrastructure systems from legacy to the new solutions

· Propose and deliver solutions that best meet the business needs in terms of security, cost and bandwidth

· Work close with Server, Cloud, Application team members do deliver the IT Infrastructure as wider project. Act based on the end to end view of the Infrastructure

· Document the solutions delivered and help to transition the service to regional teams in final stage of the project

· Act as L3/L4 point of contact after the Infrastructure Service is transitioned to the target teams

REQUIRED SKILLS:

An ideal candidate should have strong 5+ years experience in all of the below:

· Experience in Network infrastructure design and build

· Network components maintenance experience (upgrades etc)

· Firewalls (ideally Fortigate, Checkpoint)

· Data centre network experience

· Cisco or Fortinet based routing and switching (CCNA level)

o Knowledge of protocols: IP, SNMP, SMTP, OSPF, VLAN

o ACLs

o Static routing

· SDWAN (ideally Velocloud or Fortigate)

· Switch stacking

· Experience of complex network migrations

· Cisco wireless experience

· Ability to read, understand and create technical documentation of the delivered solutions

· Collaborative team player

Below skills will be an advantage:

· CCNP level

· Ideally a proven track of LAN/WAN/SDWAN network infrastructure design and implementation during acquisitions, transitions and delivery on enterprise level

· Experience with protocols like: DNS, DHCP, NTP, HTTP, BGP

· VOIP

· QoS

· Network monitoring

· Load Balancing

· VPN (ideally Pulse Secure)

· Data centre network experience

· Experience in complex network migrations

· Cloud Networking

What we offer:

• A launch pad into various senior management opportunities - within the many business lines of Eurofins globally - or into the management hierarchy in our different corporate functions.
• The opportunity to grow your project management skills in a demanding, fast growing organization.
• A chance to become part of a highly motivated international team of professionals.
• In a fast growing group, successful leaders are frequently being offered increased areas of responsibility (subject to geographic mobility).