Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company which provides a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries. The Group believes it is the world leader in food, environment and pharmaceutical products testing and in agroscience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and for supporting clinical studies. In addition, Eurofins is one of the key emerging players in specialty clinical diagnostic testing in Europe and the USA.

Group's key figures are approx. 3 billion Euros turnover, more than 650 laboratories across 45 countries and more than 45.000 staff.

Position Title:

L3 Operations Senior Compute Engineer

REPORTING TO:                          Compute Service Operations Lead, Environment Testing Europe

WORKING LOCATION:                  Chennai/ India

NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES

UNDER RESPONSIBILITY:               0             

OVERALL OBJECTIVES:               As part of the IT Infrastructure Support Team for Eurofins Environment Testing Europe, you will join a growing international team to work on maintenance of newly deployed segregated IT User Zones and Application Availability Groups Cloud infrastructure. Your role will be to support daily Compute operations tasks in a complex hybrid environment in Azure Cloud and local HyperV infrastructure.  You will collaborate with number of different IT Support and Delivery Teams on daily basis. It will require strong Azure & HyperV virtualization, AD, Security and Networking skills. Open mind and ability to cooperate with multiple individuals in a multicultural environment is essential.

                                                         You will get an opportunity to drive Eurofins major IT Infrastructure transition and transformation across Environment Testing Europe Businesses.

SPECIFIC ASSIGNMENTS:

• Manage, maintain and optimize Azure compute services as well as on-premises Hyper-V clusters and virtual machine infrastructure
• Implement automation and orchestration for deployment, scaling, and management using PowerShell
• Monitor compute infrastructure health, troubleshoot incidents, and execute root cause analysis to prevent recurrence
• Collaborate with cloud architects, network, and security teams, as well as application owners at the international corporate level to support compute capacity planning and optimization and best meet business requirements in terms of security, cost, and effectiveness
• Enforce security best practices and compliance requirements in cloud and on-prem environments
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code for both Azure and Hyper-V platforms
• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and knowledge sharing within the compute operations team
• Maintain detailed documentation of operational procedures, configurations, and workflows
• Stay current with environment version updates, emerging technologies, and industry best practices

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

An ideal candidate should have strong experience in all of the below:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years managing compute infrastructure with strong focus on Microsoft technologies.
• Proven experience with Microsoft Azure compute services (VMs, AKS, Azure Scale Sets, Azure Resource Manager).
• Deep expertise in managing Hyper-V environments including failover clustering, live migration, and storage management.
• Strong scripting skills in PowerShell; experience with Azure CLI and ARM templates is highly preferred.
• Proven experience of monitoring tools (Site24x7, Grafana, etc.)
• Familiarity with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and other Azure-native monitoring tools.
• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools such as Azure Resource Manager templates, Terraform (Azure provider), or Ansible.
• Solid understanding of Windows Server administration and networking fundamentals.
• Experience with backup and disaster recovery strategies for both cloud and on-premises environments (preferably in Veeam backup environments).
• Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills
• Ability to read, understand and create technical documentation
• Very good command of English written and spoken
• Ability to present technical projects on meetings

• Accustomed to using ITSM tools (e.g. BMC Helix)

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Experience with Azure DevOps or other CI/CD pipelines
• Exposure to containerization and orchestration technologies within Azure (AKS)
• Knowledge of security best practices
• Microsoft certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Azure Administrator Associate or similar