Senior Sre/ Sysops Administrator

Company Description Why are we here?

You may not know our name but we can guarantee you know our work - all we do has a positive impact on life, health and the environment. Eurofins is by your side every day, from the food you eat to the medicines you rely on.

We work with the biggest companies in the world, making sure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate. Our global and diverse network of companies offers a stimulating start-up environment with fast track careers.

As a part of Eurofins, you will contribute to making science and innovation happen every day!

Job Description How can you contribute?

You will join a challenging and unique large-scale Transformation Program with high impact and visibility. As Senior SRE / SysOps Administrator , you are primarily responsible for the engineering, configuration, installation, and maintenance of public and private cloud, Windows and Linux OS, physical and virtual servers, storage, backups, and disaster recovery planning .

We rely on our engineers to empower our users with high availability, excellent performance levels and key service.

Ideally, we are seeking an experienced engineer to deliver insights and guidance as we design, build, and operate a state-of-the-art multi-cloud “greenfield” infrastructure . Of most interest to us is someone who brings ideas and solutions , a lateral thinker, demonstrates a unique and informed viewpoint, and enjoys collaborating with a cross-functional team to develop real-world IT service.

In the role of Senior SRE/ SysOps Administrator , you will:

• Build, configure and operate Google Cloud VMware Engine plus the enablement of cloud infrastructure services in GCP (Google Cloud Platform) or Azure where required by the business
• Research, evaluate and recommend computing resources for the virtualization platform
• Manage server and storage resources
• Develop and implement agile and scalable infrastructure solutions, with advanced monitoring and alerting, while establishing best practice tools, frameworks, and processes
• Perform daily system checks, verifying the integrity and availability of development, testing, staging, and production environments
• 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 deliver automation and innovation initiatives, ability to drive automation initiatives independent of automation tools.
• 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
• Evaluate, recommend, manage, and operate compute and storage resources on 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 (Standard Operating Procedures), management of IT Incidents/Problems and IT Changes as per well-defined ITIL processes, as implemented in the ITSM system (ServiceNow)
• Contribute to the reference documents to establish consistency and shared knowledge of Operations best practices and delivery methods.
• Deliver quality documentation allowing smooth day-to-day operations
• Perform system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of 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 plans and practicing recovery operations
• Consult with senior peers to learn through experience
• Partner with key vendors to maintain an understanding of modern technology and leading practices
• Provide after-hours on-call support (rotation) and participate with solution implementation (upgrades, new releases,), patching and deployment activities after hours as needed

Qualifications Are you our kind of extraordinary?

With a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar, you have a minimum of 3 to 7 years of experience supporting Server environments, managing VMware virtual server environments and operating storage and backup solutions. You also have a minimum of 1 to 3 years of experience managing public cloud-based resources.

Your technical skills include:

• Minimum 3-7 years of experience in supporting Server environments , preferably Windows 2016 Server, in managing VMware virtual server envi