Junior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

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.

In a nutshell

As an Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you will lead strategic IT Infrastructure projects; including a major IT Infrastructure transition and transformation globally.

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

Based in Barcelona, you will be joining an international team, the IT Application Monitoring and Observability team is a global Eurofins team that provides knowledge on operation of IT Systems and IT Infrastructure.

How can you help us? 

As an Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, you will join a challenging and unique large-scale Transformation Program with high impact and visibility. Over 61K+ Eurofins employees relies on services that we are providing to conduct their daily operation. From basic application availability monitoring, through complex process analysis ending on advanced statical and ML/AI methods to proactively counteract any unexpected events that can negatively impact the bussies. Handling over 3TB of data daily our goals is to collect, process, and visualize data to provide knowledge in easy and understandable way to the end users.

As our next IT infrastructure Engineer, You will:

Be responsible for creating infrastructure with terraform for cloud providers. Also, will be maintaining existing Infrastructure both on premise and on the Cloud Environment.

You will take part in monitoring requirements elicitation and maintain team’s backlog; actively contribute to Architectural Decision Records (ADRs).

Handling feasibility studies and proof of concepts for Infrastructure optimization, consulting developed and delivered solution with Security department.

In this position, you will be reporting directly to Program Manager.

Are you our kind of extraordinary?

You have:

Experience in building and operating cloud infrastructure and applications on Azure using IaC with Terraform is a must and key requirement. At least 2-3 years of experience (university projects included).  

Skills in applying DevOps principles, especially deploying, monitoring, and operating containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, GitOps, and CI/CD.

Knowledge in securing IT environments is a must due to close cooperation with Security department (SSL, certificate management, security concepts like encryptions, hashing etc.)

Development skills (scripting level in bash, basic Python is nice to have)

Successful experience delivering results from international and geographically disparate teams, including both local and remote resources and contending for heavily utilized centralized resources; 

Very good command of English written and spoken.

Engineering degree or equivalent experience in IT engineering Knowledge.

What else should we know about you?

You have a great understanding of Azure services (Virtual Machines, Active Directory, Firewall, Application Gateway, Log Analytics). Understating of auto scaling concepts. Familiarity with any modelling languages (ex. C4, UML, ArchiMate) and experience in working with Elasticsearch are nice to have.

Our challenging technological stack:

Elastic Stack (especially: Beats, LogStash, ElasticSearch), MS SQL Server, Grafana, Octopus, Environment: Barebones docker and Azure Cloud (AKS). Plans to expand to AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service and GCS Google Kubernetes Engine.

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.

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!

Find out more on our Careers 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 believes that it is a 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.

In over 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 63,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 companies across 60 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 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.95 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.