SQL Database Administrator

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.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

Job Description

In a nutshell

Job Description

To be stronger in our operation part we are looking for significant experience in databases topics. Inside the CoC Database team, you will work in an international context on the maintenance in operational condition of the database servers for which you are responsible.

Your role is mainly to manage tasks until advanced level (L2/L3), communicate with customer to properly classify or assess tickets for proper Assignment group and ensure about documentation and knowledge transfer as well.

• Work using ticketing tool (Service Now), to record, fix incidents and contribute to continuous improvement.
• The project approach to contribute and develop new features of our Service catalogue.
• Troubleshoot internal tools occurring issues, getting to the root causes and supporting resolution of the issues found.
• Cooperate closely with the rest of IT Infrastructure & Operations, Architecture and Security teams.
• Ensure that the performance, scalability, and security are optimized and applied on instances and databases.
• Contribute to bringing Eurofins database servers to the next maturity level, by ensuring close observance of the policies, rules, and processes.
• Hands-on configure and troubleshoot the most crucial elements of Eurofins global database platforms.
• Identify, document, and promote best practices for database architecture and contribute continuous improvement initiatives to drive higher efficiency and performance of the database services.
• Manage First, 2nd and 3rd level of technical support IT Incidents and communicate with our customers or services.
• Manage Front changes and Back Office Changes using procedures and provided environment (Terraform infrastructure deployment usage and Octopus Deployment usage).
• Flexible to work on night shifts or weekend in case of maintenance or on call duty as the company never stop.
• On call support is organized: 1 every 2 months maximum.

What can we do for you?

We are offering the following:

• A competitive salary package, including bonus and benefits;
• Extensive on-the-job coaching and training opportunities;
• Challenges within a multi-cultural and cross-regional team as part of the international and fast-growing Eurofins organization;
• A dynamic working environment with a good team spirit where personal development and growth are highly encouraged.

Standard benefits:

• Additional Performance Bonus up to 1 Month Salary per year
• Meal Vouchers
• Gym Reimbursement
• Medical Sub and Health Insurance
• 25 days of holidays + 1 extra day off for your birthday
• Additional holidays for your loyalty
• Remote work activity in Romania.

Qualifications

Are you our kind of extraordinary?

• Strong organizational skills.
• Ability to listen, gather and understand information about people and situations, quickly.
• Excellent attention to detail and quality.
• Global company experience.
• Experienced working globally for multinational teams.
• Communication and team player ability.
• Technically solid incorporate and enterprise-scale of database implementation.
• Systems Thinking - the ability to see how parts interact with the whole (big-picture thinking).
• Proven experience of acting in infrastructure/operations/project teams.
• Technologies:
• Engines: MS SQL / PostgreSQL. Optional: Oracle / Elasticsearch
• Features: SSRS, SSAS, SSIS, Power BI
• Languages: Transact-SQL, PowerShell
• Operating system: Windows and Linux
• Platform: On Premise and Cloud (Azure, AWS, or Google)
• Deployment tools: Terraform and Octopus

What else should I know?

As the role and Eurofins' IT Talent Acquisition team are international, please ensure to submit your application in English.

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.