Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Full-time

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, pharmaceutical and cosmetics 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, CDMO, advanced material sciences and for supporting clinical studies. In addition, Eurofins is one of the leading global emerging players in specialty clinical diagnostic testing.

In 2018, Eurofins generated 4.2 billion Euro proforma turnover in 800 laboratories across 47 countries, employing about 45.000 staff.

Tecna, as a part of Eurofins Technologies multi-national network, has the goal of developing and validating reliable industrial solutions for food safety assessment.  It has been producing several immunoassays based on different technologies since 25 years, and keeps growing its catalogue portfolio with novel assays and applications to cover the food industry necessities of analysing chemical contaminants in ingredients and finished products. Applications need to be fast, easy, reliable and possibly safe for the personnel involved in routine implementation of analysis. In other words, the sample preparation and contaminants extraction from food matrices must be arranged through robust, simple and quick procedures, being ideally able to extract multiple contaminants in one single preparation, and being solvent free or at least non-toxic.

Position Title: Senior Automation Engineer

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OVERALL OBJECTIVES:

                                                         You will get an opportunity to drive Eurofins major IT Infrastructure transition and transformation across Food, Feed and Agro Testing Europe Businesses.

SPECIFIC ASSIGNMENTS

• Design, implement, and maintain automation solutions for IT User Zones and Application Availability Groups within the Azure Cloud and on-premises environments.
• Lead automation initiatives as part of IT Infrastructure Transformation / Integration / Segregation projects across Food, Feed and Agro Testing Businesses in Europe.
• Develop and deliver automation solutions that align with business needs, ensuring optimal security, cost-efficiency, and operational effectiveness.
• Collaborate closely with Cloud, Compute, Network and Application teams to deliver end-to-end automation solutions as part of broader infrastructure projects.
• Document automation workflows, scripts, and solutions, and support the transition of automated services to regional teams during the final stages of implementation.

REQUIRED SKILLS

An ideal candidate should have strong experience in the following areas:

Automation & Scripting:

• Proficient in PowerShell scripting for infrastructure automation.
• Experience with Azure Automation, including Hybrid Workers and runbooks.
• Experience with Ansible for configuration management and orchestration.
• Strong understanding of REST APIs and integration with automation workflows.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Graph API for automating Microsoft 365 and Azure AD tasks.
• Knowledge of Terraform, including state management, for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.

Development & Cloud Engineering:

• Solid experience with C#, .NET Framework, and MudBlazor for building custom automation tools and dashboards.
• Experience with Azure App Services and Cosmos DB for hosting and managing cloud-native applications.
• Proficient in using Azure DevOps Pipelines for CI/CD and automation of deployment processes.

Identity & Access Management:

• Knowledge of Active Directory (AD) and Entra ID (Azure AD), including identity lifecycle, role-based access control, and security best practices.

Cloud Infrastructure:

• Solid foundational knowledge of Azure Resources, with the ability to integrate these components into automated workflows.
• Good understanding of Azure Networking & Security concepts such as VNETs, Subnets, Peering, and Network Security Groups, especially in the context of automating infrastructure provisioning and configuration.

General Skills:

• Ability to read, understand, and create technical documentation for delivered solutions.
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
• Very good command of English, both written and spoken.
• Comfortable presenting technical projects and solutions in meetings.

Below skills will be an advantage:

• Python scripting for infrastructure automation.
• Familiarity with AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service).
• Other cloud vendors experience (AWS, GCP etc.)
• Exposure to monitoring and logging tools such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, or Grafana.
• Familiarity with BMC Helix or other ITSM platforms for automation of service management workflows.
• Experience with event-driven automation using tools like Azure Event Grid, Logic Apps, or Functions.
• Experience with automating identity and access management tasks using MS Graph API and Entra ID