Senior DevOps Engineer (GCP)

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 Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be primarily responsible for the engineering, configuration, installation, and maintenance of public and private cloud, Linux OS, CI/CD, and work code maintenance. You will deliver insights and guidance as we design, build, and operate a state-of-the-art multi-cloud “greenfield” infrastructure.

You will brings ideas and solutions, as a lateral thinker, demonstrating a unique and informed viewpoint; as you collaborate with a cross-functional team to develop real-world IT service.

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

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, based in Poland,  you will join a challenging project engineering team and program with high impact and visibility.

How can you help us? 

You will:

Build, configure and operate Google Cloud Platform (GCP); plus Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), Containers and Kubernetes Clusters GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) as code.

Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, orchestration, DevOps best practices, etc.

Research, evaluate and recommend resources for the CI/CD platform and GCP.

Develop, debug, improve code refactoring to deliver and maintain infrastructure (Terraform) and configuration (Ansible, Puppet, Foreman) lifecycle, automation and innovation initiatives, ability to drive automation initiatives independent of automation tools.

Work on Image management as code using Packer.

Develop and implement agile and scalable infrastructure solutions, with advanced monitoring and alerting, while establishing best practice tools, frameworks, and processes.

Identify, diagnose, and resolve coding, reliability, or performance issues.

Manage vendors for specific and specialized support when needed.

Additionally, you will:

Collaborate with other infrastructure team members to learn, develop, and enhance the skills needed to support software-based infrastructure.

Ensure that IT Services are delivered effectively to business customers. This includes the execution of SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures), management of IT Incidents/Problems and IT Changes as per well-defined ITIL processes, as implemented in the ITSM system (ServiceNow)

Identify opportunities to innovate, extend and enhance service delivery wherever possible.

Contribute to and deliver quality documentation to establish consistency and shared knowledge of Operational best practices and delivery methods.

Perform system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of infrastructure resources; ensure that performance, scalability, and security is maintained and optimized.

Participate in disaster recovery plans and practicing recovery operations.

Are you our kind of extraordinary?

You have:

Solid experience in Cloud engineering, architecture, and administration (enterprise scale) focused on Google Cloud Platform:

• Solid experience with IaaC: Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Foreman.
• Experience working with Containers and Kubernetes Clusters
• Experience supporting IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS based solutions.
• Linux OS engineering, architecture, and administration including:
  • Automation and self-service solutions
  • Programming languages such as Bash, JSON, YAML, etc...

Knowledge of Azure fundamentals (IAM, network, security, etc.), plus working experience with (provisioning of / migration to / support of) Azure Server & Storage resources.

Experience with or knowledge of backup & disaster recovery preparedness, monitoring, testing, and activation.

Working experience in monitoring, alerting and analytics, proactive maintenance, root cause analysis, and troubleshooting. Working experience in observability tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Logic Monitor, Datadog, VMware vRealize and others.

What else should I know?

The following skills are an advantage:

Certifications in any of the following or similar technologies are a plus: Google Cloud, Azure, AWS, Hashicorp Terraform, and Linux (RHEL and/or Ubuntu).

ITIL Foundation is a plus.

Knowledge of laboratory (regulated/controlled environment) operations and processes is a plus.

Familiarity with relevant regulatory requirements (GxP, HIPAA, GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), …) is a plus.

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.