Senior DevOps Engineer

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 the environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins works 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 a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product 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 in the support of clinical studies.

In over just 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 62,000 staff across a network of over 1,000 independent companies in 61 countries, operating 900 laboratories. Performing over 450 million tests every year, Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialized clinical diagnostics testing.

Eurofins is one of the fastest growing listed European companies with a listing on the French stock exchange since 1997.

Eurofins IT Solutions India Pvt Ltd (EITSI) is a fully owned subsidiary of Eurofins and functions as a Global Software Delivery Center exclusively catering to Eurofins Global IT business needs. The code shipped out of EITSI impacts the global network of Eurofins labs and services.

The primary focus at EITSI is to develop the next generation LIMS (Lab Information Management system), Customer portals, e-commerce solutions, ERP/CRM system, Mobile Apps & other B2B platforms for various Eurofins Laboratories and businesses. Young and dynamic, we have a rich culture and we offer fulfilling careers.

Job Description

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer (DevOps+.NET)
Work Mode: Hybrid
Shift Timing: 12PM to 9PM

OVERALL OBJECTIVES:

 

As IT Senior Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for maintaining secure, scalable, and cost-effective IT infrastructure and hybrid-cloud, aligned with business needs and Eurofins standards. You will engage hands-on into Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code deployments and will set example and provide technical leadership for other technical teams. In 50% of your time, you will provide support and maintenance for in-house self-service automation portal frontend, backend and underlying automation pipelines, developing it according to business requirements of internal IT organization.

 
SPECIFIC ASSIGNMENTS:

Cloud Management

Manage and enhance DEV/TEST subscriptions in Azure Development tenant used by IT organization.

Provide guidance and consultations for technical teams across the IT organization.

Infrastructure as Code

Engage in translation of static infrastructure in Azure into Terraform-managed code.

Help driving IaC best practices using Terraform and Terraform Cloud inside production landing zones, managed by respective support teams.

Engage in testing and development activities within IaC stack.


Configuration as Code

Automate deployment of new services with Ansible.

Maintain and enhance current codebase of Ansible configuration pipelines.

After migration to Terraform, refine Ansible codebase and divide it to series of specialized service-specific micro-pipelines.

 
Self-service portal development

Maintain in-house application codebase of C#, .NET, MudBlazor, PowerShell, Bash, Ansible.

Maintain Cosmos DB, App Service, DevOps pipeline, DNS A records, Technical Accounts, Application Secrets, TLS Certificates and AppGateway configurations instantiated in each production landing zone, releasing updates and refreshing configuration periodically.

Enhance service according to the feedback and business requirements.

Security

Maintain good security posture of maintained code, without bleeding secrets or compromising the infrastructure otherwise.

Align with code best practices by using static and dynamic testing, including SonarQube integrations and self-developed unit-tests.


Architecture team support

Assist Infrastructure architects in POCs and other activities that require Automation/DevOps specific skillset.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

General

Ability to understand business requirements and translate technical requirements into actionable personal tasks and priorities.

Motivation to providing state-of-the-art solutions for IT organization.

Collaboration with other team members and architects to deliver secure and fit-for-purpose services.


Cloud & Infrastructure Expertise

Deep practical knowledge of:

Azure IaaS & PaaS: Virtual Machines, Networking, Storage, AKS, App Services, Cosmos DB, API Management.

Microsoft 365: Exchange Online, SharePoint, Teams, Intune.

Azure AD & Identity: RBAC, AAD Connect, conditional access, MFA.

Automation & DevOps: Terraform, ARM, Ansible, CI/CD with Azure DevOps.

Microsoft AD DC, LDAP directory hierarchy and Kerberos protocol.

 
Infrastructure as Code

Ability to write Terraform code, interacting with Azure and on-prem services.

Familiarity with state file management and security best-practices.

Ability to manage Terraform Cloud projects and workspaces.

Management of Terraform worker nodes.

Configuration as Code

Ability to write Ansible procedures embedded in Azure DevOps pipelines.

Ability to manage Linux and Windows environments using Ansible, Bash and PowerShell.

Ability to run and debug Azure DevOps pipelines and Ansible playbooks.

 
Portal Management and Development

Ability to write secure code and to debug and enhance programs in C#, .NET and MudBlazor component library.

Ability to integrate frontend code with the backend and with automation pipelines.

Ability to manage certificates, DNS records and secrets.