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.

SUMMARY OF POSITION AND OBJECTIVES:

Job Description:

• Joining the business at an exciting time, you will be crucial in implementing new and updated processes, structures and working with new technologies, within cloud, local environments, and data centre. This is a great opportunity to play a crucial role within a newly formed team. Your work will be pinnacle to the success of project delivery.
• Helps drive the adoption and implementation of Modern Workplace Technologies across the business line, digitising and improving the employee experience.
• In this role, you will be responsible for providing subject matter expertise and guidance on the use of Autopilot/Intune, PowerShell, SCCM, and Azure to support the deployment and management of modern workplace technologies. You will assist with ongoing projects, including a OneDrive migration, Autopilot implementation, and device roll-out on a European scale.
• Within the AgroScience core IT Team you will be the most Senior WSM Engineer, acting as a technical point of escalation. You will work closely with teams across the organization to identify and address technical challenges, and you will play a key role in supporting the successful implementation of Modern Workplace Solutions.

POSITION & OBJECTIVES: 

Workstations and Mobile devices:

• Automate Windows device lifecycle management, in particular desktop deployment (with Autopilot) and CMDB.
• Deploy and maintain modern device management technologies (with Intune for Windows and mobile devices).
• Create update rings that specify how and when Windows as a Service updates Windows 10/11 devices with feature and quality updates.
• Ensure workstations are patched in a timely manner, taking into account strong business requirements (with Intune and Update rings).
• Ensure general security of workstations (encryption, compliance, security policies, security baselines).
• Manage Compliance policies to ensure that only devices with high security standards are allowed to access corporate data.
• Package applications required by users and update them regularly, to ensure users and service desk never have to install any application out of the standard.

Office 365 Cloud Services and Identities:

• Ensure users and devices are properly managed with the highest efficiency and automation (AD, AzureAD).
• Manage and automate the Office 365 environment to provide users with e-mail and collaborative technologies in a secure way, in line with Group requirements.
• Manage Conditional Access policies to ensure that each Enterprise App is accessed in line with security requirements.
• Ensure administrative access to the environment is properly configured with least privilege principle (Just-in-time and Just Enough Admin) and provide admins with adequate bastions / jump hosts when needed.
• Ensure adequate data management (data retention, Teams/SharePoint management, etc.).
• Automate reporting to have a 360° view over the configuration, changes and threats to the environment.

Servers:

• Defines the GPOs for Servers.
• Creates update rings that specify how and when Windows as a Service updates servers with feature and quality updates and drives the patching cycle. Ensures servers are patched in a timely manner in collaboration with the operational team.

In project mode:

• Defines process and support the migration of 1100 users (PCs, mailboxes, data) from traditional technologies to the above-mentioned modern systems.
• Implements solutions which drive automation to drive and improve efficiency.
• Manages project work independently as well as cooperates as part of a large international team for complex projects.
• Creates and maintains technical documentation.
• Automates, scripts and performs testing within the Workplace area.
• Grows a strong understanding of the AgroScience business line and end-user needs.

• Bachelors in computer science, or related degree or proven experience in the role.
• Deep understanding of virtual and cloud infrastructures.
• Microsoft certification will give you an advantage.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with strong practical experience in development project management.
• Strong experience of Integration and Change Projects and experience with holistic project implementation to connect new customers.
• Ideally has knowledge of a laboratory IT infrastructure.
• Ability to quickly learn new concepts, technologies, and software.
• Excellent verbal/written communication skill as well as fluency in English. Other languages such as French, German, Spanish and Italian are a bonus.

Technology:

• Modern Workplace, Automation, Scripting (e.g. PowerShell) to investigate, build, design or test change, Microsoft 365, Windows Operating Systems, Productivity and Collaboration Tooling (Teams & SharePoint), & Citrix / Azure Virtual Desktops.
• Microsoft 365 Certified an advantage.
• Knowledge of wider M365/ end user computing technologies.
• Extensive experience working with Intune/Autopilot.
• Strong Azure experience: Microsoft Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory Domain Service, IPAM, DNS, AD Federation Services etc and Windows-based systems across the enterprise, including directory and identity management solutions.
• Good knowledge of IT infrastructure technologies (VMWare, backup, network, etc.)
• Thorough understanding of monitoring best practices.
• Knowledge of modern security principles including identity driven security, data-centric controls and zero trust and understand their impact on the end-user experience.
• Proficient usage of Service Now.

Personal Qualities:

• Excellent interpersonal relations skills at all levels of the organization, combined with a strong customer-focused approach.
• Ability to work in a complex international and multi-lingual environment with a can-do attitude and determination to achieve the core objectives.
• An initiative-taker who takes ownership, collaborates, and who has the vision to challenge conventional approaches.
• Experience in innovating fresh solutions to meet business requirements where no solutions currently exist.
• Responsive problem solver and generates proactive actions.
• Strategic analytical approach to short, medium, and long-term problem-solving.
• Able to manage multiple projects and deliver results within tight deadlines.
• Strong cooperation, communication, knowledge transfer and support of team members.
• Self-motivated, independent, detail-oriented, responsible Team player with hands-on mentality.

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 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 61,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of ca. 900 laboratories in 61 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 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.7 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.