DevOps Engineer

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 over 65,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 companies across 59 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.

Position title: DevOps Engineer

Reporting to: Ananda Bairy S. L.

Reporting location:Bangalore, India

Summary of position and objectives:

Eurofins is taking big steps in implementing best cloud and DevOps practices, accelerating the deployment of standard processes across its laboratories. A key aspect is the Information Systems (EurIS) group of application suites where ComLIMS and ADMS are very important programs.

The main objective is to support the DevOps activities within ComLIMS program, supporting the applications lifecycle, cloud migration and modernization etc.

Position and objectives:

The candidate will

• Become part of the DevOPS team: 2 members located in India.
• Be involved in application lifecycle management, configuration management, and build and release process management for ComLIMS applications.
• Become a cloud DevOps practitioner:
  • Work together with Cloud Engineering team.
  • Work closely with program and application architects.
  • Develop and enhance Infrastructure as Code.
  • Aid in designing deployment plan for Azure.
  • Help bring Development and Operation teams together.

The candidate is expected to

• Contribute to technical activities from the DevOps backlog.
• Help team members adapt to new ways of working.
• Support the application lifecycle and operational tasks.
• Maintain and extend both the technical documentation and DevOps guidelines.
• Act as part of the ComLIMS L3 Support Team.
• Provide some periodical and/or emergency support.
• Provide operational support to the various scrum team.
• Acquire and keep expanding functional knowledge of the EurIS suite, starting with ComLIMS & ComLIMS.
• Present and share knowledge within and outside the team.
• Report clearly and timely to the Site and Team Manager.

Personal skills:

• Strong interpersonal relation skills: diplomatic, patient, kind.
• Good communicator in an international environment.
• Have an eye for details be passionate for technical accuracy.
• Eager to learn continuously: new tech, processes, and functional knowledge.

Technical skills:

• Cloud infrastructure and administration: Azure (preferred), AWS, GCP, etc.
• Deploy and release tools and best practices: Azure DevOps, Octopus, Graphana etc
• Scripting: PowerShell, bash, etc.
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (Cloud).
• Database administration: Microsoft SQL Server. PostgreSQL and/or MongoDB.
• Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes.
• OS : Linux + Windows

Good to have technical skills:

• On-prem infrastructure and administration.
• Operational procedures: procurement, installation, monitoring, support, etc.
• Configuration management (with CMDB).
• Software development/architecture: .NET, etc.

Educational background:

• Bachelor / Master’s degree in Computer Science, or strong Bachelor equivalent.
• Fluent English is required.

Previous experience:

• 2 - 5 years of experience as either DevOps Engineer or Developer, or related. preferably in an Enterprise DevOps and/or cloud migration context.