Senior Cloud/Devops Architect (Azure)

In a nutshell

As a Senior Cloud Architect at Eurofins you will be supporting our global IT Application development teams to move towards a cloud-first and DevOps mind-set and transition many of our applications to be deployed, run and operated via automation in the public cloud.

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

Based in Dublin, Ireland, you will be part of a geographically dispersed IT Architecture team with a focus on supporting our global IT Application development teams. 

How can you help us? 

As a Senior Cloud Architect in Eurofins you will:

• Collaborate with the Cloud Engineering Team in defining cloud Standards and Governance;
• Design scalable enterprise cloud frameworks (AWS control Tower, Azure Landing Zones etc);
• Collaborate with product development to define their technology transition into the cloud;
• Evangelise DevOps/Cloud culture and practices throughout the business;
• Define and standardise tooling;
• Improve software performance metrics;
• Be a trusted hands-on advisor for IaC and CI/CD pipelines;
• Automation of processes, testing and security;
• Document standards in readiness for governance approval;
• Consult with business to build new channels between development and operations teams. 

Are you our kind of extraordinary?

You have:

• At least 5 years of experience in Cloud architecture (Azure); including high-level designs, cloud governance and related technical documentation;
• Strong general experience in both Multi Cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) and On-premises environments. 
• Hands on experience with Terraform and Cloudformation;
• Hands on experience of Kubernetes and containerisation;
• Knowledge of DevOps tooling
  • Collaboration tools.
  • Application Lifecycle Management tools,
  • Cloud/IaaS/PaaS/Serverless tools,
  • Source and version control tools,
  • CI/CD delivery tools,
  • Continuous testing/security testing tools,
  • Release Orchestration tools,
  • Monitoring tools,
  • Analytics tools;
• Experience with CI/CD and GitOps pipelines; 
• The ability to manage multiple projects / tasks concurrently and drive them to completion;
• The ability to work independently and effectively under pressure while identifying ambiguity and driving for clarity;
• The ability to motivate and influence others; 

You are:

• An excellent communicator (concise writing and orally convincing)
• A strong collaborator, able to build relationships with both leaders and team members.
• Capable to establish trust based on outstanding expertise with stakeholders
• Capable of adapting quickly to a complex distributed organization
• Detail oriented

What else should I know? 

• Experience in working with distributed teams or offshore teams is a plus. 
• Vendor Specific cloud certifications, Architect, DevOps are also 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 environment (office/home)
• 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 61 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.