AWS Cloud & Observability Engineer

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.

In a nutshell

As a AWS Cloud & Observability Engineer, you will be a key part of the Operations Team;  supporting the LIMS and supporting applications lifecycle, cloud migration, observability and modernization. You will be implementing best cloud and DevOps practices, accelerating the deployment of standard processes across its laboratories.

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

Based in Lisbon, you will be part of a globally distributed team that support the Clinical Diagnostics business through the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS); which is in development to be deployed across our European clinical laboratories and will be hosted in AWS and On Premise.

How can you help us? 

You will:

• Be involved in application lifecycle management, configuration management, and build and release process management for the clinical suite of applications.
• Become a cloud DevOps practitioner to:
  • Work closely with program and application architects.
  • Develop and enhance Infrastructure as Code.
  • Deploy applications on Cloud infrastructure using IaC.
  • Aid in designing deployment plans for AWS & On-Premises platforms.
  • Help bring Development and Operation teams together.
• 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 Clinical LIMS L3 Support Team.
• Provide operational support to the various Program agile teams.
• Acquire and keep expanding functional knowledge of the Eurofins IT Application landscape, starting with the Clinical LIMS and application suite.
• Plan and Operate Observability platforms for the Clinical LIMS IT Application stack.

Are you our kind of extraordinary?

You have:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in a similar role, preferably in an Enterprise DevOps and/or cloud migration context.
• Experience Cloud infrastructure and administration; 
• Containerization experience : Docker, Kubernetes, EKS;
• On-prem infrastructure and administration; 
• Experience in Deploy and release tools and best practices:
• Experience in Operational procedures: procurement, installation, monitoring, support, etc.;
• Experience in Scripting: PowerShell, bash, etc.;
• Experience in Infrastructure as Code; 
• Experience with Database administration: Microsoft SQL Server; Oracle DB; 
• Experience in Configuration management (with CMDB); 
• Observability and monitoring knowledge; 
• A bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science or similar.

What else should I know? 

The following skills are an advantage:

• Core experience in AWS is preferred;
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Octopus Deploy, etc.;
• IaC with Terraform (Cloud);
• Observability with Grafana is ideal.

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.