IT Infrastructure System Engineer - Windows

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 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 believes it is a global leader in food, environmental, 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 in the support of clinical studies. In over just 30 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 62,000 staff across a network of more than 1000 independent companies in over 62 countries and operating more than 900 laboratories. 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. In 2022, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR € 6.515 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.

Job Description Position Title: L3 Operations Senior Compute Engineer

Reporting To: Compute Service Operations Lead, Environment Testing Europe

Working Location: Coimbatore

Shift Timing: 12PM – 9PM IST

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.

Deep expertise in managing Hyper-V environments including failover clustering, live migration, and storage management.

Solid understanding of Windows Server administration and networking fundamentals.

Experience in administering and maintaining print server environments, as well as troubleshooting printing‑related issues in Windows environments.

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

Proven experience with Microsoft Azure compute services

Scripting skills in PowerShell; experience with Azure CLI and ARM templates is highly preferred.

WOULD BE AN ADVANTAGE

Experience in administering Linux server environments

Accustomed to using ITSM tools (e.g. BMC Helix)

Experience of monitoring tools (Site24x7, Grafana, etc.)

Familiarity with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and other Azure-native monitoring tools

Experience with Azure DevOps or other CI/CD pipelines