Sr. System Engineer

<h3>Company Description</h3><p>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.</p><p>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 companie<em>s.</em></p><h3>Job Description</h3><p><strong><u>In a nutshell</u></strong></p><p>You will be primarily responsible for the engineering, configuration, installation, maintenance, and upgrade of physical and virtual servers. The objective is to build and operate a state-of-the-art on premise and multi-cloud infrastructure.</p><p><strong><u>How can you help us?</u></strong></p><p><strong>Management Services, Server Virtualisation, Multi-Cloud infrastructure</strong></p><p>You will:</p><ul><li>Research, evaluate, and recommend hardware and software for our virtualisation platform.</li><li>Build, configure, operate and upgrade on premise datacentres, plus the enablement of cloud infrastructure services where required by the business</li><li>Manage server and storage resources, on-premises and in Cloud.</li><li>Perform daily system checks, verifying the integrity and availability of all involved infrastructure resources and key processes.</li><li>Assists with advanced troubleshooting (proficient in all levels and phases of systems support).</li><li>Identify, diagnose, and resolve connection, reliability, or performance issues.</li><li>Contact vendor technical support for Priority 1 incidents and requests.</li><li>Develop scripts to automate repetitive administration tasks.</li><li>Participate in an after-hours on-call support rotation and implement solutions (upgrades, new releases, …), patching and deployment activities after hours as needed.</li><li>Validate system upgrades and patches when required</li></ul><p>Additional Focus Areas</p><ul><li>Team members are expected to grow their expertise in other systems engineer areas to provide support for the entire IT infrastructure landscape through formal training, job shadowing, service transition and documentation</li><li>Research, evaluate, and recommend hardware and software for servers, storage (SAN/NAS), and backup solutions</li><li>Manage and operate Backup and Storage resources on premise and in public Cloud</li><li>Support of non-Windows operating systems</li></ul><p><strong>Core IT Infrastructure Technology / Operations Duties</strong></p><ul><li>Partner with other infrastructure Team Members to learn, develop and enhance the skills needed to support software-based infrastructure.</li><li>Ensure that IT Services are delivered effectively to business customers. This includes the execution of SOPs, management of IT Incidents/Problems and IT Changes as per well-defined ITIL processes, as implemented in the ITSM system (ServiceNow).</li><li>Deliver quality documentation allowing smooth day-to-day operations.</li><li>Perform system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all involved infrastructure resources; Ensure that performance, scalability, and security is maintained and optimized.</li><li>Identify opportunities to innovate, extend and enhance service delivery wherever possible.</li><li>Participate in disaster recovery plan and practicing recovery operations.</li><li>Consult with senior peers to learn through experience.</li><li>Partner with key vendors to maintain an understanding of new technology and leading practices.</li><li>Cooperate closely with other Zone / Regional / Group IT Infra resources.</li></ul><p><strong><u>What can we do for you?</u></strong></p><p>We offer you:</p><p><strong>Exposure &amp; growth:</strong> You will be part of a multi-cultural and cross-regional team within a fast-growing organisation and have the opportunity to gain increased areas of responsibility and personal (career) development.</p><p><strong>Training:</strong> You will be supported with intensive coaching and training besides having the chance to develop your own coaching skills by training more junior team members.</p><p><strong>A dynamic working environment</strong> with a good team spirit where personal development and growth are encouraged</p><h3>Qualifications</h3><p><strong><u>Are you our kind of extraordinary?</u></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong>Experience</strong></p><ul><li>Minimum of 3-7 years of experience in supporting Server environments, preferably Windows 2016 Server, in managing VMware virtual server environments, and in operating storage and backup solu