DevOps Engineer (Hybrid)

In a nutshell

Eurofins is taking big steps in implementing best cloud and DevOps practices, accelerating the deployment of standard processes across its laboratories.

A key IT Application for our Clinical Diagnostics business is the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) which is in development to be deployed across our European clinical laboratories and will be hosted in AWS.

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

In the role, you will be a key part of the Operations Team  supporting the LIMS and supporting applications lifecycle, cloud migration, containerization and modernization.

How can you help us? 

As a DevOps Engineer at Eurofins, you will:

• Join the team: approx 45 members across Portugal, Ireland and India
• 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 plan for AWS 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 scrum teams;
• Acquire and keep expanding functional knowledge of the EurIS suite, starting with the Clinical LIMS and application suite.

Are you our kind of extraordinary? 

Education:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer Science;

Background:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in a similar role, preferably in an Enterprise DevOps and/or cloud migration context;

Technical skills:

• Cloud infrastructure and administration: AWS (preferred)
• Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, EKS
• On-prem infrastructure and administration;
• Deploy and release tools and best practices:; Azure DevOps, Octopus Deploy, etc.;
• Operational procedures: procurement, installation, monitoring, support, etc.;
• Scripting: PowerShell, bash, etc.
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (Cloud);
• Database administration: Microsoft SQL Server; Oracle DB
• Configuration management (with CMDB);
• Software development/architecture: Java, Springboot, Angular

Soft skills:

• Strong interpersonal relation skills: diplomatic, patient,
• Good communicator in an international environment.
• Keen eye for details be passionate for technical accuracy.
• Eager to learn continuously: new tech, processes, and functional knowledge!

Additional information

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 believe 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 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 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 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 62,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 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 2023, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6,515 million, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.