Senior Information Security Engineer

Job Description As a key IT leader in the Eurofins network, you will oversee multiple European businesses across various sectors including Agroscience, BioPharma Services, In Vitro Diagnostics, and Consumer Product Testing. With a vast network spanning over 200 sites in Europe, you will be part of our commitment to maintaining robust IT security measures in alignment with business requirements. Approvals: Acting as a gatekeeper for sensitive access and firewall rule approvals, ensuring compliance with security policies and business needs. Reviews: Conducting regular reviews of access permissions, firewall configurations, and IT infrastructure settings (e.g., AD, Intune, Office 365, Azure) to ensure adherence to security best practices and expectations. Architectural review and change management: Reviewing and approving all proposed changes to the IT infrastructure, ensuring changes do not compromise security integrity. Testing: Conducting vulnerability scans at both regional and laboratory levels, overseeing remediation efforts; collaborating with Group Security to facilitate penetration testing as required. Incident Response: Assisting in the investigation of security breaches and providing support for security intelligence reported by the Group Security Operations Centre (SOC). Advisory Role: Working closely with newly acquired laboratories to enhance their security posture according to Eurofins’ internal security standards, leveraging your expertise of a Senior Security Analyst; evaluating the security of both in-house and externally developed applications, providing recommendations for security enhancements. Reporting: Contributing to the development of operational security Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and offering recommendations for improvement based on data analysis and industry best practices. Vulnerability management: Overseeing the vulnerability management process for our entire infrastructure, ensuring timely identification, prioritisation, and mitigation of vulnerabilities. Qualifications We are looking for a candidate with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field, along with 4-7 years of experience in information security roles, with a focus on vulnerability management, incident response, and security advisory. Professional certifications such as CISSP, CEH, or CISM are preferred. You should possess strong knowledge of IT security principles, technologies, and best practices, as well as experience with security tools and technologies (e.g., vulnerability scanning tools, SIEM solutions). Good communication skills are a must, with the ability to convey technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences effectively. You should also have strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a keen attention to detail, enabling you to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with multiple stakeholders. Additional Information We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development. We embrace diversity!  The Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique. Sustainability matters to us!   We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives we count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us to achieve this goal! Find out more in our career page: https://careers.eurofins.com/ Company description:  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 our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate. The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products. In over 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 62,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 900 laboratories in 62 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products. In 2023, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6,515 million, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.