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.

In a nutshell

You will be primarily responsible for the engineering, configuration, installation, maintenance, and upgrade of physical and virtual servers. The objective is to build and operate a state-of-the-art on premise and multi-cloud infrastructure.

Where will you be based and what business will you support?

As part of the IT Infrastructure Delivery team, you will be supporting our Professional Scientific Service in Barcelona

How can you help us?

Management Services, Server Virtualisation, Multi-Cloud infrastructure

You will:

• Research, evaluate, and recommend hardware and software for our virtualisation platform.
• Build, configure, operate and upgrade on premise datacentres, plus the enablement of cloud infrastructure services where required by the business
• Manage server and storage resources, on-premises and in Cloud.
• Perform daily system checks, verifying the integrity and availability of all involved infrastructure resources and key processes.
• Assists with advanced troubleshooting (proficient in all levels and phases of systems support).
• Identify, diagnose, and resolve connection, reliability, or performance issues.
• Contact vendor technical support for Priority 1 incidents and requests.
• Develop scripts to automate repetitive administration tasks.
• Participate in an after-hours on-call support rotation and implement solutions (upgrades, new releases, …), patching and deployment activities after hours as needed.
• Validate system upgrades and patches when required

Additional Focus Areas

• Team members are expected to grow their expertise in other systems engineer areas to provide support for the entire IT infrastructure landscape through formal training, job shadowing, service transition and documentation
• Research, evaluate, and recommend hardware and software for servers, storage (SAN/NAS), and backup solutions
• Manage and operate Backup and Storage resources on premise and in public Cloud
• Support of non-Windows operating systems

Core IT Infrastructure Technology / Operations Duties

• Partner with other infrastructure Team Members to learn, develop and enhance the skills needed to support software-based infrastructure.
• Ensure that IT Services are delivered effectively to business customers. This includes the execution of SOPs, management of IT Incidents/Problems and IT Changes as per well-defined ITIL processes, as implemented in the ITSM system (ServiceNow).
• Deliver quality documentation allowing smooth day-to-day operations.
• Perform system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all involved infrastructure resources; Ensure that performance, scalability, and security is maintained and optimized.
• Identify opportunities to innovate, extend and enhance service delivery wherever possible.
• Participate in disaster recovery plan and practicing recovery operations.
• Consult with senior peers to learn through experience.
• Partner with key vendors to maintain an understanding of new technology and leading practices.
• Cooperate closely with other Zone / Regional / Group IT Infra resources.

What can we do for you?

We offer you:

Exposure & growth: You will be part of a multi-cultural and cross-regional team within a fast-growing organisation and have the opportunity to gain increased areas of responsibility and personal (career) development.

Training: You will be supported with intensive coaching and training besides having the chance to develop your own coaching skills by training more junior team members.

A dynamic working environment with a good team spirit where personal development and growth are encouraged

Are you our kind of extraordinary?

You have:

• Solid experience in supporting Server environments, preferably Windows 2016 Server, in managing VMware virtual server environments, and in operating storage and backup solutions.
• Good experience in managing public cloud-based resources (preferably in Azure).
• Experience with all or some of the most important hardware vendors like IBM, Dell, Lenovo, Nutanix or HP.
• Experience with or knowledge of NetApp storage technologies or alternatives like EMC, EqualLogic, or Nimble.
• Experience with or knowledge of backup tools like CommVault
• Experience with or knowledge of Linux
• A Bachelor's degree in computer science / IT / comparable field or equivalent working experience

You are:

• Passionate about technology and great at translating business requirements into into scalable infrastructure designs, cost models, and forecasts.
• Used to working in a fast-paced environment, prioritizing tasks and troubleshooting complex problems 
• A great communicator both in Spanish and English

What else should I know?

• Certification in VMware, Windows Server, Microsoft Azure or GCP technologies is a plus.
• Agile or ITIL Foundation certification is a plus. 
• Other Languages are a plus 

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.