[IT Delivery Center] Cloud Architect

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 Cloud/Devops 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? 

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?  

You will collaborate with the Cloud Engineering Team in defining cloud standards and governance, and with Product Development to define their technology transition into the cloud.  

You will work on automation of processes, testing and security; and on document standards in readiness for governance approval.  

You will design scalable enterprise cloud frameworks (AWS control Tower, Azure Landing Zones etc), define and standardise tooling; and improve software performance metrics.  

You will be a trusted hands-on advisor for IaC and CI/CD pipelines, while evangelising DevOps/Cloud culture and practices; and consulting with business to build new channels between development and operations teams.  

Are you our kind of extraordinary? 

You have: 

• 2 years of general experience both in on premise and Multi Cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP, OpenStack);  
• Strong experience in DevOps environments and tooling; 
• K8s Experience 
• Hands on experience with Terraform, Cloudformation, Kubernetes and containerisation; 
• Strong prior experience with creating architecture and general technical documentation; 
• 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; 
• Documentation and Diagrammes as code (structurizr) benefitial. 
• 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! 

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.  

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 believes 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 on our Careers 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 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 63,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 companies across 60 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 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.95 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.