Qualifications : Position Title :
L3 Operations Senior Compute Engineer
REPORTING TO : Compute Service Operations Lead Environment Testing Europe
WORKING LOCATION : Chennai / India
NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES
UNDER RESPONSIBILITY : 0
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 :
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or related field (or equivalent experience).5 years managing compute infrastructure with strong focus on Microsoft technologies.Proven experience with Microsoft Azure compute services (VMs AKS Azure Scale Sets Azure Resource Manager).Deep expertise in managing Hyper-V environments including failover clustering live migration and storage management.Strong scripting skills in PowerShell; experience with Azure CLI and ARM templates is highly preferred.Proven experience of monitoring tools (Site24x7 Grafana etc.)Familiarity with Azure Monitor Log Analytics and other Azure-native monitoring tools.Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools such as Azure Resource Manager templates Terraform (Azure provider) or Ansible.Solid understanding of Windows Server administration and networking fundamentals.Experience with backup and disaster recovery strategies for both cloud and on-premises environments (preferably in Veeam backup environments).Excellent troubleshooting communication and collaboration skillsAbility to read understand and create technical documentationVery good command of English written and spokenAbility to present technical projects on meetingsAccustomed to using ITSM tools (e.g. BMC Helix)PREFERRED SKILLS :
Experience with Azure DevOps or other CI / CD pipelinesExposure to containerization and orchestration technologies within Azure (AKS)Knowledge of security best practicesMicrosoft certifications such as Microsoft Certified : Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Azure Administrator Associate or similarRemote Work : No
Employment Type : Full-time
Key Skills
Change Management,Software Deployment,Cloud Infrastructure,High Availability,IaaS,Firewall,Linux,Middleware,Jboss,Network Architecture,Scripting,Technical Support
Experience : years
Vacancy : 1