IT Infrastructure Cloud Engineer

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, which provides a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries. The Group believes it is the world leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetics products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and for supporting clinical studies. In addition, Eurofins is one of the leading global emerging players in specialty clinical diagnostic testing.

In 2018, Eurofins generated 4.2 billion Euro proforma turnover in 800 laboratories across 47 countries, employing about 45.000 staff.

OVERALL OBJECTIVES:               As part of the IT Infrastructure Support Team for Eurofins Food, Feed and Agro Testing Europe, you will join a growing international team to work on to work on maintenance of newly deployed segregated IT User Zones and Application Availability Groups Cloud infrastructure. Your role will be to support daily Cloud operations tasks and to design & implement new infrastructure or migrate the existing components to Azure cloud.  You will collaborate with number of different IT Support and Delivery Teams on daily basis. It will require strong Azure virtualization, O365, AD, Identity & Access, Security and Networking skills. Open mind and ability to cooperate with multiple individuals in a multicultural environment is essential.

 

                                                         You will get an opportunity to drive Eurofins major IT Infrastructure transition and transformation across Food, Feed and Agro Testing Europe Businesses.

 

 

SPECIFIC ASSIGNMENTS:

 

• Maintain current IT User Zones and IT Application Availability Groups Cloud infrastructure
• Design, plan and implement IT Infrastructure Transformation / Integration / Segregation throughout Food, Feed and Agro Testing Businesses across Europe. These projects will be aimed to perform installations, configuration and migrations of enterprise-level IT infrastructure systems to cloud solutions (Azure, Azure AD, Active Directory, Office 365, etc.)
• Propose and deliver solutions that best meet the business needs in terms of security, cost and effectiveness
• Work close with Server, Virtualization, Network, Application team members do deliver the IT Infrastructure as wider project. Act based on the end to end view of the Infrastructure
• Document the solutions delivered and help to transition the service to regional teams in final stage of the project

 

MUST-HAVE SKILLS:

We are looking for a candidate with proven experience in Level 3 (L3) operations, capable of handling complex incidents, performing root cause analysis, and driving long-term solutions in enterprise-scale Azure environments.

 

An ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience in all of the following areas:

• Extensive hands-on experience with: Azure Virtual Machines, Subscriptions, Resource Groups, Storage Accounts, Azure AD Connect, Networking (VNETs, Subnets, Peering, Network Security Groups), Role-Based Access Control (RBAC),
• Practical experience with: Application Gateways, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Load Balancers, Managed Identities, Key Vaults, Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD),
• Good understanding of: Azure Automation, App Services, Azure Front Door, Log Analytics, Terraform,
• Working knowledge of: Cost optimization techniques, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Logic Apps, Azure Policy, Azure Update Management,
• General understanding of: Enterprise-grade Azure architecture in hybrid environments, including hub-and-spoke topology and integration with on-premises systems.

 

 

NICE-TO-HAVE SKILLS

 

These skills are beneficial and will make candidates stand out, but they are not mandatory:

• Entra ID Enterprise Applications, Conditional Access Policies, B2B Collaboration / Direct Connect, Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR), MFA,
• Microsoft 365 & Exchange Online (Licensing, Administration, Exchange management experience),
• Entra ID Connect troubleshooting and maintenance,
• Microsoft Active Directory administration (GPO, gMSA, SPN, KRBTGT, tiering model),
• Windows Server administration experience,
• PowerShell scripting experience,
• General understanding of PKI, Privileged Access Management (PAM), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) concepts.

 

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

 

• Collaborative team player,
• Fast learner with the ability to quickly grasp new concepts and technologies,
• Open to challenges and proactive problem-solving,
• Able to read, understand, and create technical documentation for delivered solutions,
• Very good command of written and spoken English,
• Comfortable presenting technical projects during meetings.