DevOps Engineer - Remote in Romania

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company with over 62,000 employees, over 900 laboratories across 62 countries, 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

Role Summary:

As part of an ongoing global IT transformation program, Eurofins is currently looking for enhancements to provide hands-on IT support at in-scope locations covering IT infrastructure services such as: Azure Cloud solutions, containers, networks, automation, DevOps. The applicant will be responsible for designing, building, maintaining, optimizing, and supporting the implementation of Cloud Native standards and DevOps heuristics. The team supports and coaches regional and local IT teams to create a resilient, repeatable, and sustainable IT landscape that is tailored to business requirements.

Objectives:

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.

The main objectives are:

• Design and implement cloud-based solutions on Azure.
• Manage and optimize multiple Kubernetes clusters (AKS, EKS, Rancher)
• Implement and maintain the Terraform- based release solution.
• Rollout and upgrade existing Azure tenants.
• Collaborate, consult, train and support different IT teams to implement the new standards.
• 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 environment using the Terraform framework.
• ITIL and DevOps approach to solving technical problems. Troubleshoot problems that arise.
• Deploy Application Landing Zone using in-house Terraform-based solution.
• Work with application teams to accommodate cloud requirements.
• Serving 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.

Qualifications and experience:

• At least 3 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:

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

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.

Our standard benefits:

• Additional variable annual compensation up to 1 monthly net salary
• Meal tickets
• Reimbursement of gym membership
• Medical and life insurance
• 25 days of annual leave + 1 day off on your birthday
• Additional days off for company loyalty
• Remote work activity

Since we want to expand our team in Romania, we would like to be able to plan a discussion together as soon as possible. Send us your detailed CV in English today.

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 62,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of over 900 laboratories in 62 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 2023, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6,515 million, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

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