[IT Delivery Center] 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 order to be able to manage our strong growth and our IT transformation, we are looking for actors in engine and databases deployment. Inside the CoC Database team, you will work in an international context on the deployment projects in operational condition of the future database servers for which we are responsible.

Your role is mainly to manage deployment tasks on intermediate level (L2).

• Work using ticketing tool (BMC Helix), to manage the requests queue;
• Work with or use our deployment tools (Terraform and Octopus) to be able to deploy packaged Operating System, packaged database engines and packaged databases;
• Be able to understand our deployment and to perform checks to guarantee the delivery;
• Cooperate closely with Project Managers to know priorities;
• Cooperate closely with the rest of IT Infrastructure & Operations, Architecture and Security teams;
• Communicate with our customer to offer a real customer service;
• Hands-on configure and deployment the most crucial elements of Eurofins global database platforms;
• Manage First and 2nd level of technical support IT Incidents and communicate with our customers or services;
• Respect processes and documentation;
• Forward bottleneck issue or process issue to contribute to continuous improvement.

Qualifications

Professional Experience

• 1–2+ years of hands-on experience as a Database Administrator (DBA).
• Proven experience working within infrastructure, operations, or project delivery teams.
• Background in a global or multinational company, with a strong ability to collaborate effectively across distributed international teams.

Technical Proficiency

• Database Engines: Strong working knowledge of MS SQL Server and PostgreSQL.
• Operating Systems: Proficient in both Linux and Windows environments.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Comfortable working with Microsoft Azure. Experience managing both On-Premise and Cloud environments (including AWS and Google Cloud) is highly desirable.
• Scripting & Languages: Solid skills in Transact-SQL (T-SQL) and PowerShell.
• Deployment & Automation: Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and deployment tools, specifically Terraform. (Note: Training can be provided for Octopus Deploy).

Skills & Abilities

• Systems Thinking: Ability to step back and see the "big picture," understanding how individual database components interact with the overall system infrastructure.
• Exceptional Communication: Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to listen, gather technical requirements, and communicate complex information clearly to both customers and team members.
• Agility & Attention to Detail: Responsive, proactive, and dynamic in your approach to problem-solving, without compromising on quality or organizational standards.
• Team Player: A collaborative mindset with a dedication to supporting your peers and contributing to team success.

Operational Flexibility

• 24/7 Environment Readiness: Because our business never stops, you must be flexible and willing to work occasional night shifts, weekends, or participate in an on-call rotation to support critical maintenance and continuous operations.

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!  As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity. 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 on our Careers 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 37 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to ca. 63,000 staff across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of more than 950 laboratories in over 1,000 companies across 60 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 2024, Eurofins generated total revenues of EUR 6.95 billion, and has been among the best performing stocks in Europe over the past 20 years.