Cloud Operations Specialist

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 works 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 the global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in agroscience Contract Research Organisation services. Eurofins 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. The Group also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 55,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of 900 laboratories in over 50 countries. Eurofins offers 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 2020, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 5.4 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Job Description

• Key contributor to enable a Well-Architected Framework of Reliability, Security, Cost optimization, Operational Excellence, and Performance Efficiency.
• Participate in the day to day operations and maintenance of the IT infrastructure in a cloud environment including log and system monitoring, end user issue resolution, backup verification, connectivity issues, access control management, email issues, virus and malware mitigation, etc.
• Utilizing various advisory tools such as Azure Advisor, prioritize and implement plans of action to improve the effectiveness of the Eurofins IT Ecosystem
• Be cloud engineering point person to support and developer team coordinating the Infrastructure needs
• Ensure reliability of multiple internal and external services across the application stack, including software, infrastructure, and networking (as applicable to service) including Kubernetes, Azure PaaS, and Virtual machines and networks.
• Develop automation scripts and infrastructure as code using Azure Bicep, Blueprints, and Powershell
• Develop processes for the inventory of Eurofins Resources to keep its components, such as configuration, certificates, patches, sizing, up-to-date and cost effective.
• Maintain the resource budgets to balance cost optimization with appropriate performance, security, and reliability
• Monitor cloud environment health using management and security tools and respond to issues as they arise; help build, test, and maintain new servers as needed.
• During major incidents, manage triage of technical diagnosis and coordinate with application support, internal IT groups, and cloud support.
• Create documentation, system standards, and SOPs within the organization.

Qualifications

Basic Minimum Qualifications:

• Authorization to work in the US for any employer, indefinitely, without sponsorship.
• Ability to commute to Lancaster, PA site around 2-3 times per month.
• M.S. or equivalent in the field of Computer Science and/or Engineering OR equivalent experience as a Software/Infrastructure/Network engineer, an Azure cloud engineer or DevOps responsibilities

The Ideal Candidate would possess: 

• 1 year of experience as a Software, Infrastructure, or Network Engineer and 2 years working as a Azure cloud engineer or DevOps responsibilities
• Experience of at least one of the following, and basic experience in the others
  • Automation of Azure resource creation (ARM, Bicep, Blueprints, CLI, Teraform, …)
  • Virtual Networking including peering, private link service in a multi-tenant environments
  • Database experience (SQL or No-SQL)
  • Unix and Windows adminstration
  • Developing Standard Operating Procedures
  • Wiki Development
• Public Cloud experience (Azure preferred)
• Advanced experience with a scripting language (PowerShell preferred)
• Experience in both Kanban and Scrum lifecycles
• Strong knowledge of cloud, application, and infrastructure architectures
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
• Extensive understanding of kubernetes
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