Junior/Middle DevOps Engineer

Job Description

Summary of position and objectives:

Eurofins is taking big steps in implementing best cloud and DevOps practices, accelerating the deployment of standard processes across its laboratories. A key aspect is the Information Systems (EurIS) group of application suites where our division, a suite of Marketing and Offer applications, is essential.

The main objective is to support the DevOps team ‘AERO’ (Application, Environment, Release, and Operation): supporting our division applications lifecycle, cloud migration and modernization.

Position and objectives:

The candidate will

• Become part of the AERO team: 13 members located in Belgium, Romania, India and China.
• Be involved in application lifecycle management, configuration management, build and release process management for the division's applications.
• Become a cloud DevOps practitioner:
  • Work together with Platform Delivery Team to implement Infrastructure.
  • Work closely with program and application architects
  • Help bring Development and Operation teams together.

The candidate is expected to

• Contribute to technical activities from the DevOps backlog
• Help team members adapt to new ways of working
• Support Infrastructure provisioning, prerequisite.
• Support the application lifecycle and operational tasks
• Maintain and extend both the technical documentation and DevOps guidelines
• Act as part of the Division's 3 Support Team
• Provide some periodical and/or emergency support
• Provide operational support to the various scrum team
• Acquire and keep expanding functional knowledge of the EurIS suite, starting with ADMS
• Present and share knowledge within and outside the team
• Report clearly and timely to the Site and Team Manager

Requirements

Qualifications

Educational background:

• Bachelor / Master’s degree in Computer Science, or strong Bachelor equivalent
• Fluent English is required

Previous experience:

• > 2 years of experience as either DevOps. Engineer. Configuration & Deployment Engineer, Developers.
• Preferably in an Enterprise DevOps with experience under context of on-premise + Azure Cloud.

Personal skills:

• Strong interpersonal relation skills: diplomatic, patient, kind
• Good communicator in an international environment
• Have an eye for details: be passionate for accuracy and quality

Technical skills:

• Configuration& Deployment management (with CMDB)
• Cloud infrastructure and administration: Azure (preferred), AWS, GCP, etc.
• Deploy and release tools and best practices: Azure DevOps, Octopus Deploy, etc.
• Scripting: PowerShell, bash, etc.
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (Cloud)
• Database administration: Microsoft SQL Server and/or PostgreSQL and/or MongoDB
• Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes

Good to have technical skills:

• On-prem infrastructure and administration
• Operational procedures: procurement, installation, monitoring, support, etc.
• Software development/architecture: .NET, etc.