Senior IT Devops engineer

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 member of the our Crew 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, AWS & OpenStack 
• Mentor and Lead small Devops Crew 
• Manage and optimize multiple Kubernetes clusters (AKS, EKS, Rancher) 
• Implement and maintain the Terraform- based release and configuration management solution. 
• Idempotent configuration management using PowerShell Desired State Configuration (DSC) 
• Collaborate, consult, train and support different IT teams to adopt and implement the new standards and ways of working. 
• 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. 
• GitOps approach to solving technical problems.. 
• Advise application teams on Cloud Adoption patterns and advice. 
• Serving as an escalation point for all IT teams for support and troubleshooting, 
• Provide quality documentation in an automated fashion, facilitating understanding and knowledge sharing. 
• 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 and developing modules based on common patterns. 

Qualifications

Qualifications and experience: 

• At least 5 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 (PowerShell DSC preferred) 
• Deep knowledge and experience with Kubernetes 
• Monitoring and alerting systems. e.g. DataDog, Icinga, Nagios 
• Security and Registration Tools. 
• Identity and access management using EntraID  (Azure AD) 
• Automation and implementation of e.g. Terraform, DSC, Ansible, Helm, Azure DevOps 
• Cloud Native Firewall Management 
• CheckPoint Firewall Management 
• GitOps Practitioner 
• Software distribution and software packaging 
• Solid networking knowledge 
• Hands-on experience managing OpenResty (Nginx + LuaJIT) for custom reverse proxy setups is beneficial 
• English language at an advanced level 

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 believes 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!