Job description
Company Description
Eurofins is an international network of independent life sciences companies, 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 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 its companies around the world.
Job Description
In a nutshell
Overall Objective: Owning and managing the networking services
Do you have a practical experience of designing and building medium-sized IT Infrastructure environments?
Are you able to discuss with the Business to understand their requirements and select/build solutions that will deliver according to their requirements?
Are you able to MOVE FAST and adjust your solution on the fly as needed?
We are looking for Senior and mid-level Engineers, who feel comfortable with the concept of Zero Trust Networks, Cloud (Azure, AWS), and are specialized in Network Management.
As part of the Project Team (GSC – NSC IT Infrastructure) you’ll be responsible to define, design and implement a Network Component of virtual Security Zones, or actual Eurofins Locations.
So your hands-on experience in both BUILD and RUN of networks is what we’re after.
You’ll be working with other, highly qualified Application/Storage/Compute/Cloud Engineers, in a small, cross-functional, specific deliverables oriented Team.
A big advantage of the role is that you’ll use your expertise, but working in such setup you’ll have an End to End understanding and influence of what’s being built.
The GSC – NSC IT Infrastructure team supports the Group Service Centers and National Service Centers within Eurofins.
This covers approx. 4,000 end users and more than 30 sites across the world. We are building the infrastructure for this but also the support team which is required to support the required services within the GSN and NSC scope.
Responsibilities
As part of the GSC – NSC IT Infrastructure team you will support and execute strategic and transformational initiatives, such as:
- The segregation execution program
- The implementation and designing of the different segregated zones (IT User Zones)
- Supporting and designing the segregation of the different in scope solutions (IT Application Availability Groups)
Main activities, but not limited to, are:
- Implement and manage state of the art infrastructure networking solutions for high available applications using all the latest innovation (private, public and hybrid cloud)
- Manage the provided networking services (e.g WAN, LAN, WIFI, Loadbalancers, VPN)
- Act as a networking specialist for the in scope IT services
- Identify opportunities to innovate, extend and enhance service delivery everywhere possible
- Deliver quality documentation: Procedures, Policies and Low Level Designs
- Improve existing processes through sustainable solutions to recurring problems and enhancements to existing solutions by automation
- Cooperate closely with C&S and Security teams to ensure the appropriate alignment and governance
- Ensure that the services comply with the set policies and standards and meet the agreed SLA’s
Specific Assignments:
- Design and create newly defined segregated Infra zones within Eurofins
- Work together with the solutions teams on the solutions designs for the diifferent Application Availability Groups (AAGs)
- Support the application migration activities into the new zones
Qualifications
Are you our kind of extraordinary?
An ideal candidate should have strong 5+ year’s experience in all of the below:
- Strong experience in Fortinet products: FortiGate, Forti Manager (templates), FortiSwitch, FortiAP, FortiAnalyzer
- Experience in Network infrastructure design and transitions.
- Network components maintenance experience (upgrades, etc.)
- Firewalls (Fortigate, Checkpoint)
- Data Centre network experience
- Cisco based routing and switching (CCNP level)
- Knowledge of protocols: IP, SNMP, SMTP, OSPF, VLAN
- ACLs
- Static routing
- SDWAN
- Switch stacking
- Experience of complex network migrations
- Wireless experience
- Ticketing tools experience (preferably ServiceNow)
- Ability to read, understand and create technical documentation of the delivered solutions
- Collaborative team player
- Ability to travel internationally
Below skills will be an advantage
- CCNP level
- Ideally a proven track of LAN/WAN/SDWAN network infrastructure design and implementation during acquisitions, transitions and delivery on enterprise level
- Experience with protocols like: DNS, DHCP, NTP, HTTP, BGP
- Velocloud product knowledge will be an advantage
- VOIP
- QoS
- Network monitoring
- Load Balancing
- VPN
- Data Centre network experience
- Experience in complex network migrations
- Cloud Networking (Azure & AWS)
Additional Information
We support your development! Do you feel like 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.
Find out more on our Careers page: https://careers.eurofins.com/
Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international network of independent life sciences companies, 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 under 40 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 65,000 employees across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of over 950 laboratories in over 1,000 independent 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.
The Eurofins network generated EUR 6.95 billion revenues in FY 2024, and has been one of the fastest growing listed European companies for almost three decades.
