Information Security Architect

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 and pharmaceutical 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, advanced material sciences and for supporting clinical studies. In addition, Eurofins is one of the key emerging players in specialty clinical diagnostic testing in Europe and the USA.

Group's key figures are approx. 4.56 billion Euros turnover, over 800 laboratories across 50 countries and more than 50,000 staff.

Job Description

We are looking for a delivery-focused Information Security Architect to design and evaluate complex IT system solutions from security standpoint. The role is expected to contribute to technical integration scenarios, ensuring security in ongoing and planned projects. This is a hands-on role that requires some traveling to establish close collaboration with the operations, infrastructure and project teams.

SPECIFIC ASSIGNMENTS:

You will be working on establishing concepts for secure integration of systems and networks, ensuring end-to-end security for data flow. You will also participate in projects to ensure the suggested and implemented architecture is in line with security requirements. Your big task will be to continuously contribute to business integrations after acquisitions and mergers to ensure these are commenced in line with security standards. This role is also strategic - creating strategies and implementations concepts for secure integration of company's global infrastructure with the cloud, supporting global Security Teams as architecture expert!

Responsibility on this role will be also connected with researching, cost-justifying, recommending and establishing both current and future IT architectures for all aspects of the company. 

Best practices, guidelines and reusable components design - you will be also working on these by liaising within the corporate Enterprise Architecture Office and IT Infrastructure.

Qualifications

If you have 5-7 years of experience in security and/or infrastructure architecture design and support, as well as experience in management of cloud-based services and you used to act as the expert in project teams - we're looking for you.

Talent to identify and create a broad vision for a security solution and to execute it, as well as systems thinking, seeing how parts interacts with the whole (big picture thinking), is also crucial for us. 

On the role of Information Security Architect you can utilize your technical skills:

• architecting, deploying and managing security tools e.g.: vulnerability management, identity management, PKI, log management, multifactor authentication, pentesting, automated code analysis and antimalware;
• solution design principles, practices, system development methodologies, and software lifecycles with experience in a combination of system and application architectures;
• understanding of server management, virtualization, networking, systems management.

As you'll be working in an international environment, your English needs to be excellent. You have to be an effective communicator (both to technical and non-technical professionals), convincing that your concepts are relevant and important for the whole organization. Other skills you'll need are orientation on details, team working, problem solving and independence. 

Additional Information

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