DevOps Engineer

About Eurofins – the global leader in bio-analysis

Eurofins is Testing for Life. The Eurofins network of companies believes that it 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 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.

With over 62,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 61 countries, Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of a wide range of products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services and in-vitro diagnostic products.

Eurofins companies’ broad range of services are important for the health and safety of people and our planet. The ongoing investment to become fully digital and maintain the best network of state-of-the-art laboratories and equipment supports our objective to provide our customers with high-quality services, innovative solutions and accurate results in the best possible turnaround time (TAT). Eurofins companies are well positioned to support clients’ increasingly stringent quality and safety standards and the increasing demands of regulatory authorities as well as the evolving requirements of healthcare practitioners around the world.

Eurofins has grown very strongly since its inception and its strategy is to continue expanding its technology portfolio and its geographic reach. Through R&D and acquisitions, the Group draws on the latest developments in the field of biotechnology and analytical chemistry to offer its clients unique analytical solutions.

Shares in Eurofins Scientific are listed on the Euronext Paris Stock Exchange (ISIN FR0014000MR3, Reuters EUFI.PA, Bloomberg ERF FP).

Position and objectives:

The candidate will

• Become part of the AERO team: 13 members located in Belgium, China, and India.
• Be involved in application lifecycle management, configuration management, and build and release process management for ComLIMS applications.
• Become a cloud DevOps practitioner:
  • Work together with Cloud Engineering team
  • Work closely with program and application architects
  • Develop and enhance Infrastructure as Code
  • Aid in designing deployment plan for Azure
  • Help bring Development and Operation teams together

The candidate is expected to

• Contribute to technical activities from the DevOps backlog
• Help team members adapt to new ways of working
• Support the application lifecycle and operational tasks
• Maintain and extend both the technical documentation and DevOps guidelines
• Act as part of the ComLIMS L3 Support Team
• Provide some periodical and/or emergency support
• Provide operational support to the various scrum team
• Acquire and keep expanding functional knowledge of the EurIS suite, starting with ComLIMS
• Present and share knowledge within and outside the team
• Report clearly and timely to the Site and Team Manager

Previous experience:

• 6 - 9 years of experience as either DevOps Engineer, Software Architect or Developer, or related
• Preferably in an Enterprise DevOps and/or cloud migration context

Technical skills:

• Cloud infrastructure and administration: Azure (preferred), AWS, GCP, etc.
• Deploy and release tools and best practices: Azure DevOps, Octopus Deploy, etc.
• Scripting: PowerShell, bash, etc.
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (Cloud)
• Database administration: Microsoft SQL Server and/or PostgreSQL and/or MongoDB
• Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes

Good to have technical skills:

• On-prem infrastructure and administration
• Operational procedures: procurement, installation, monitoring, support, etc.
• Configuration management (with CMDB)
• Software development/architecture: .NET, etc.

Bachelor / Master’s degree in Computer Science, or strong Bachelor equivalent

Personal skills:

• Strong interpersonal relation skills: diplomatic, patient, kind
• Good communicator in an international environment
• Have an eye for details: be passionate for technical accuracy
• Eager to learn continuously: new tech, processes, and functional knowledge