It Infrastructure System Engineer – Windows

Company Description 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 Qualifications REPORTING TO Compute Service Operations Lead Environment Testing Europe 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