Network 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 Network Engineer, you will join a growing international team to work on the deployment and maintenance of segregated IT User Zones, Sites and Application Availability Groups. Your role will be to support daily operations tasks and to support project workload including the design & implementation of new infrastructure or the migration of existing network components.

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

Based in Nantes, France; you will be part of the IT Infrastructure Support Team for Eurofins Food, Feed & Agro Testing Europe.

How can you help us? 

You will collaborate with several different IT Support and Delivery Teams, resorting to your networking and network security skills. Additionally, you will drive Eurofins’ major IT Infrastructure transition and transformation across the Food, Feed & Agro Testing Europe businesses.

Some of your specific assignments will involve maintaining the current IT User Zones, Sites, and IT Application Availability Groups network infrastructure. You will design, plan, and implement network IT infrastructure for Transformation, Integration, and Segregation throughout the Food, Feed, and Agro Testing businesses across Europe. These projects will aim to perform installations, configurations, and migrations of enterprise-level network IT infrastructure systems from legacy to the new solutions. In this role, you will propose and deliver solutions that best meet the business needs in terms of security, cost, and bandwidth, and work closely with Server, Cloud, and Application team members to deliver the IT Infrastructure as part of wider projects. You will also act based on an end-to-end view of the Infrastructure. The scope of your duties will include documenting the solutions delivered and helping to transition the service to regional teams in the final stage of the project, as well as driving on-site activities related to IT segregation and maintenance of the existing IT Network infrastructure.

Qualifications

Qualifications

Are you our kind of extraordinary?

You should possess a minimum of 5 years of robust experience in network infrastructure design and transitions, as well as experience in maintaining network components such as upgrades. Proficiency in Next Generation Firewalls, specifically Checkpoint and FortiGate, is essential for this role. Additionally, experience in data centre network operations and Cisco-based routing and switching at a CCNA level is required, including knowledge of protocols such as IP, SNMP, SMTP, OSPF, VLAN, ACLs, and Static routing.

Knowledge of Fortinet hardware and systems configuration is necessary, particularly in FortiManager, FortiGate NG Firewall, VPN, SDWAN, and FortiAnalyzer. Practical experience in VeloCloud SDWAN, switch stacking, complex network migrations, and Cisco wireless technologies is also required. Candidates with the ability to comprehend, generate, and interpret technical documentation related to delivered solutions are highly desirable.

A strong command of written and spoken English is indispensable, including the capability to articulate technical projects in meetings. Proficiency at the CCNP level, with a proven track record in LAN/WAN/SDWAN network infrastructure design and implementation during acquisitions, transitions, and enterprise-level delivery, along with familiarity with different protocols such as DNS, DHCP, NTP, HTTP, and BGP, will be advantageous.

Additional assets include experience in network monitoring, familiarity with Azure or other cloud-based environments, basic knowledge of load balancing, VPN technologies, data centre networks, complex network migrations, and cloud networking.

Your application:

As the role and the Eurofins' IT Talent Acquisition team are international, please ensure to submit your application in English.

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 61,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 61 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.