Principal Associate-IT (Senior Network Engineer)

About Eurofins:

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 the environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins works 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 a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product 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, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.

In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 58,000 staff across a network of over 1,000 independent companies in 54 countries, operating 900 laboratories. Performing over 450 million tests every year, Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialised clinical diagnostics testing.

Eurofins is one of the fastest growing listed European companies with a listing on the French stock exchange since 1997. In FY 2021, Eurofins achieved a record revenue of over EUR 6.7 billion.

Eurofins IT Solutions India Pvt Ltd (EITSI) is a fully owned subsidiary of Eurofins and functions as a Global Software Delivery Center exclusively catering to Eurofins Global IT business needs. The code shipped out of EITSI impacts the global network of Eurofins labs and services.

The primary focus at EITSI is to develop the next generation LIMS (Lab Information Management system), Customer portals, e-commerce solutions, ERP/CRM system, Mobile Apps & other B2B platforms for various Eurofins Laboratories and businesses. Young and dynamic, we have a rich culture and we offer fulfilling careers.

REPORTING TO: Network Team Lead GSC NSC

GEOGRAPHICAL REPORTING LOCATION: Spain

WORKING LOCATION: Bangalore

OVERALL OBJECTIVES: Owning and managing the networking services

Job Description

Do you have a practical experience of designing and building medium-sized IT Infrastructure environments?

Are you able to discuss with the Business to understand their requirements and select/build solutions that will deliver according to their requirements?

Are you able to MOVE FAST and adjust your solution on the fly as needed?

We are looking for Senior and mid-level Engineers, who feel comfortable with the concept of Zero Trust Networks, Cloud (Azure, AWS), and are specialized in Network Management.

As part of the Project Team (GSC – NSC IT Infrastructure) you’ll be responsible to define, design and implement a Network Component of virtual Security Zones, or actual Eurofins Locations.

So your hands-on experience in both BUILD and RUN of networks is what we’re after.

You’ll be working with other, highly qualified Application/Storage/Compute/Cloud Engineers, in a small, cross-functional, specific deliverables oriented Team.

A big advantage of the role is that you’ll use your expertise, but working in such setup you’ll have an End to End understanding and influence of what’s being built.

The GSC – NSC IT Infrastructure team supports the Group Service Centers and National Service Centers within Eurofins.

This covers approx. 4,000 end users and more than 30 sites across the world. We are building the infrastructure for this but also the support team which is required to support the required services within the GSN and NSC scope.

Responsibilities

As part of the GSC – NSC IT Infrastructure team you will support and execute strategic and transformational initiatives, such as:

• The segregation execution program
• The implementation and designing of the different segregated zones (IT User Zones)
• Supporting and designing the segregation of the different in scope solutions (IT Application Availability Groups)

Main activities, but not limited to, are:

• Implement and manage state of the art infrastructure networking solutions for high available applications using all the latest innovation (private, public and hybrid cloud)
• Manage the provided networking services (e.g WAN, LAN, WIFI, Loadbalancers, VPN)
• Act as a networking specialist for the in scope IT services
• Identify opportunities to innovate, extend and enhance service delivery everywhere possible
• Deliver quality documentation: Procedures, Policies and Low Level Designs
• Improve existing processes through sustainable solutions to recurring problems and enhancements to existing solutions by automation
• Cooperate closely with C&S and Security teams to ensure the appropriate alignment and governance
• Ensure that the services comply with the set policies and standards and meet the agreed SLA’s

Specific Assignments:

• Design and create newly defined segregated Infra zones within Eurofins
• Work together with the solutions teams on the solutions designs for the diiferent Application Availability Groups (AAGs)
• Support the application migration activities into the new zones

Requirements

An ideal candidate should have strong 5+ year’s experience in all of the below:

• Strong experience in Fortinet products: FortiGate, Forti Manager (templates), FortiSwitch, FortiAP, FortiAnalyzer
• Experience in Network infrastructure design and transitions.
• Network components maintenance experience (upgrades, etc.)
• Firewalls (Fortigate, Checkpoint)
• Data Centre network experience
• Cisco based routing and switching (CCNP level)
  • Knowledge of protocols: IP, SNMP, SMTP, OSPF, VLAN
  • ACLs
  • Static routing
• SDWAN
• Switch stacking
• Experience of complex network migrations
• Wireless experience
• Ticketing tools experience (preferably ServiceNow)
• Ability to read, understand and create technical documentation of the delivered solutions
• Collaborative team player

Below skills will be an advantage

• CCNP level
• Ideally a proven track of LAN/WAN/SDWAN network infrastructure design and implementation during acquisitions, transitions and delivery on enterprise level
• Experience with protocols like: DNS, DHCP, NTP, HTTP, BGP
• Velocloud product knowledge will be an advantage
• VOIP
• QoS
• Network monitoring
• Load Balancing
• VPN (ideally Pulse Secure)
• Data Centre network experience
• Experience in complex network migrations
• Cloud Networking ( Azure & Aws )

What we offer

• A permanent position
• The opportunity to gain increased areas of responsibility and personal (career) development
• Challenges within a multi-cultural and cross-regional team as part of the international and fast-growing Eurofins organisation
• A dynamic working environment with a good team spirit where personal development and growth are encouraged
• Working from home up to 60%