Job Description

Company Description
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.
Tecna, as a part of Eurofins Technologies multi-national network, has the goal of developing and validating reliable industrial solutions for food safety assessment. It has been producing several immunoassays based on different technologies since 25 years, and keeps growing its catalogue portfolio with novel assays and applications to cover the food industry necessities of analysing chemical contaminants in ingredients and finished products. Applications need to be fast, easy, reliable and possibly safe for the personnel involved in routine implementation of analysis. In other words, the sample preparation and contaminants extraction from food matrices must be arranged through robust, simple and quick procedures, being ideally able to extract multiple contaminants in one single preparation, and being solvent - free or at least non-toxic.

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:
o Azure IaaS & PaaS: Virtual Machines, Networking, Storage, AKS, App Services, Cosmos DB, API Management.
o Microsoft 365: Exchange Online, SharePoint, Teams, Intune.
o Azure AD & Identity: RBAC, AAD Connect, conditional access, MFA.
o Automation & DevOps: Terraform, ARM, Ansible, CI/CD with Azure DevOps.
o 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

Skills Required