IT Infrastructure Architect

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 an IT Infrastructure Architect, you will play a pivotal role in shaping secure, scalable, and resilient IT Infrastructures to support services and applications. You will work closely with regional and global IT teams to ensure the alignment of technology solutions with business objectives and industry best practices. In this role, you will design robust systems, oversee solution designs, and contribute to strategic decision-making processes. Your expertise will be vital in creating high-quality, innovative, and cost-effective solutions that address a diverse range of business requirements.

You will be part of the team responsible for designing IT infrastructure solutions that integrate seamlessly with applications, ensuring they meet key non-functional requirements such as performance, resilience, and compliance. You will be a technical leader, driving evaluations of new technologies and collaborating with vendors to foster innovation. When engaging with stakeholders, you will clearly communicate solution designs and validate project scopes to ensure the organisation makes informed decisions. Your role will also include maintaining a catalogue of building blocks to support a unified and efficient IT ecosystem.

Qualifications

To excel in this role, you will need a bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field and over 15 years of experience in IT projects, with at least five years in a Solution/Cloud/Infrastructure Architect role. Demonstrable expertise in multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP), M365 platforms, and on-premises technologies such VMware, Microsoft technologies and Linux environments is essential, along with a strong track record in designing large-scale infrastructure and applications.

You should be skilled in enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman and experienced in designing cloud solutions, including containers, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform or Ansible. Your knowledge of Windows environments (Active Directory, PKI, RDS etc.), Linux, database platforms, virtualisation technologies, and monitoring tools will enable you to create and maintain robust IT ecosystems.

Success in this role also requires strong stakeholder management skills, effective communication in English, and the ability to manage multiple projects in a dynamic environment. You should be a quick learner, adaptable, and capable of working independently or as part of a team.

Certifications in Azure, AWS, GCP, or enterprise architecture frameworks are considered a plus.

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 believe 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 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 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 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 62,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 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.