DevOps Engineer

Company Description

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.

Job Description

In a nutshell

As a DevOps Engineer,  you will be contributing to the implementation of best Cloud and DevOps practices and the acceleration of the deployment of standard processes across our laboratories. You will support applications lifecycle, cloud migration, containerization, and modernization.

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

You will be based in Lisbon, Portugal and will be joining an already existing distributed team (Belgium, Romania, India and China) within our ComLIMS&ADMS Programmes, that provide a suite of marketing and clients management application; within our Information Systems (EurIS) group of application suites. 

How can you help us? 

You will:

• Be involved in application lifecycle management, configuration management, and build and release process management for ComLIMS&ADMS applications; 
• 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&ADMS 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 ADMS; 
• Present and share knowledge within and outside the team;
• Report clearly and timely to the Site and Team Manager; 
• Become a cloud DevOps practitioner by:
  • Working together with Platform Delivery Team;
  • Working closely with program and application technical team (Developers and Architects);
  • Being involved in implementation Infra via Infrastructure as Code;
  • Deploying applications on Cloud infrastructure using IIS, Kubernetes and Docker;
  • Helping bring Development and Operation teams together.

Qualifications

Are you our kind of extraordinary?

You have:

• 3+ years of experience in either DevOps, Software or related engineering- preferably- in an Enterprise DevOps and/or cloud migration context; 
• Experience in Operational procedures: procurement, installation, monitoring, support, etc; 
• Experience with deploy and release tools, such us Azure DevOps, Octopus Deploy, etc; 
• Experience with, at least, one scripting language like PowerShell, bash, etc; 
• Cloud infrastructure and administration experience: Azure (preferred), AWS, GCP, etc; 
• Good communication skills within an international environment; 
• An eye for detail and technical accuracy; 

You are:

• Eager to learn continuously: new tech, processes, and functional knowledge; 
• Fluent in English; 

What else should I know? 

The following skills are a plus:

• A Masters degree in Computer Science (or strong Bachelor equivalent); 
• Database administration experience with Microsoft SQL Server; 
• Configuration management experience with CMDB; 
• On-prem infrastructure and administration; 
• Containerization experience: Docker, Kubernetes; 
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (Cloud); 
• Software development/architecture: .NET, etc.

Additional Information

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 62,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 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 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.