IT DevOps Engineer (Hybrid position)

Location: Bogotá, Bogota, co

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 agro-science Contract Research Organization 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 Organizations. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialized and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 58,000 staff across a decentralized and entrepreneurial network of 900 laboratories in over 54 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 2021, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.72 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Job Description

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.

How can you help us? 
The main objectives are:

• Design and implement cloud-based solutions on Azure and or AKS
• Manage and optimize multiple Kubernetes clusters (AKS, EKS, Rancher)
• Implement and maintain the Terraform- based release solution
• 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 or AWS environment using the Terraform and Azure Devops based framework.
• ITIL and DevOps approach to solving technical problems. Troubleshoot problems that arise.
• 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.

What can we do for you?

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

Qualifications

Qualifications and experience:

• At least 2 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:

• AWS and/or (operations and infrastructure)
• Good Linux/Windows OS administration and scripting skills (DSC preferred)
• Deep knowledge and experience with Kubernetes and similar products, 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
• CheckPoint Firewall Management
• GitOps Practitioner
• Software distribution and software packaging
• Solid networking knowledge
• English language at an advanced level