Job description
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 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.
Eurofins 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 the entire network of Eurofins companies.
Job Description
In a nutshell
As a Database Administrator, you will be responsible for designing, installing, configuring, upgrading, and maintaining databases to ensure their smooth operation.
Your role
- Your role will involve optimizing database performance, managing security, performing regular backups, and implementing high availability solutions.
- You will oversee SQL Server databases across multiple environments, ensuring scalability, reliability, and efficiency.
- Managing database replication, clustering, Always On availability groups, and other HA/DR strategies will be a crucial part of your responsibilities.
- Your expertise will be essential in administering SQL Server instances hosted on Azure, optimizing cloud database performance, and ensuring seamless migrations from on-premises environments.
- You will be responsible for developing and optimizing complex T-SQL queries, troubleshooting performance issues, and designing efficient database schemas.
- Automation is a key aspect of this role, requiring you to implement scripts and processes to streamline database maintenance, backups, and health checks using PowerShell and SQL Server Agent Jobs.
- You will also be responsible for implementing Change Data Capture (CDC), job monitoring, and alerts to ensure database health.
- Your role will involve configuring SSL/TLS encryption for SQL Server instances and continuously improving performance through indexing and execution plan analysis.
- Collaboration with development teams and stakeholders will be essential to align database architecture with business goals.
- Additionally, you will provide on-call support for production issues and contribute to documentation and process improvement initiatives.
We offer
- We offer an opportunity to develop your expertise in database management within a fast-growing and international organization.
- You will work with cutting-edge technologies in a collaborative environment, with potential career advancement opportunities within Eurofins globally.
Standard benefits:
- Additional Performance Bonus up to 1 Month Salary per year
- Meal Vouchers
- Gym Reimbursement
- Medical Subscription
- Health Insurance
- 25 days of holidays + 1 extra day off for your birthday
- Additional holidays for your loyalty
- Remote work activity in Romania.
Qualifications
Are you our kind of extraordinary?
- To succeed in this role, you should have a solid understanding of Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration (CD/CI) pipelines, along with a good grasp of cloud deployment, preferably within an Azure environment.
- Experience with Agile practices is highly valued. Familiarity with deployment tools such as Octopus, as well as knowledge of MS Project and Excel-Macros, will be beneficial.
- Experience in document management for audit compliance processes is an advantage.
- You should have three to four years of relevant experience in release and deployment management, with demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and tasks efficiently.
- Strong leadership, analytical skills, troubleshooting capabilities, and organizational abilities are essential for managing multiple projects simultaneously.
- Your technical expertise should include proficiency with Windows platforms, MSSQL databases, and ticketing tools such as ServiceNow.
- You should have experience working in an MS Azure cloud environment and familiarity with CI and build deployment tools such as Octopus Deploy.
- Knowledge of version control tools like Azure DevOps and monitoring tools like Grafana will be beneficial.
If you are looking to be part of a dynamic release management team and contribute to a structured and efficient deployment process, we encourage you to apply.
What else should you know?
As the role and Eurofins’ teams are international, please ensure to submit your application in English.
Additional Information
We support your development! Do you feel 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! Eurofins network of companies believe in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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.
Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal!
Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/
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 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 is the 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 one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies, as well as having an emerging global presence in Contract Development and Manufacturing Organisations. 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 63,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of over 950 laboratories in 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.
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.
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