IT Infrastructure Solutions Architect with AWS

## 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 We are looking for an Infrastructure Solutions Architect to provide architecture leadership for cloud hosting capabilities, with a primary focus on AWS and strong, practical knowledge of Azure. The role ensures that infrastructure designs for new and existing initiatives align with Eurofins policies, security requirements, and established design patterns defined at enterprise level by the Global Architecture Office. This position covers the full lifecycle: requirements gathering (functional and non-functional), solution design, architecture approval, transition to operations, and Business-as-Usual (BAU) support. The architect actively participates in incident/problem management and is expected to join the out-of-hours manager pool for major incidents. You will join an Infrastructure Support Crew and collaborate closely with other experienced Infrastructure Architects to ensure consistency and quality across designs and initiatives. The team operates within enterprise architecture governance and follows direction, standards, and policies defined by the Eurofins Architecture Office. Key Focus Areas - Architecture/design authority (~95%) with limited hands-on engineering (~5%) - Design approver: validate that application/infrastructure designs comply with Eurofins policies and approved patterns - Influence AWS landing zone architecture including segmentation and connectivity patterns (standardised hub-and-spoke) - Enable and support deployment, hosting, maintenance, and management of solutions in AWS, aligned with enterprise identity hosted in Azure - Kubernetes-enabled platforms: strong knowledge of Kubernetes from infrastructure and networking perspectives - C4 model diagramming as the standard for architecture communication - DevOps mindset required; Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) understanding is a plus - Provide additional architecture support for enterprise networking across office sites (physical LAN/WAN/Wi‑Fi) and cloud networking in AWS and Azure, including segmentation and hybrid connectivity. Responsibilities A) Architecture & Design Authority - Lead infrastructure solution design for AWS-hosted workload - Approve designs and ensure alignment with enterprise policies and reference architectures; collaborate with application architects to ensure end-to-end coherence - Ensure designs incorporate identity and access integration with enterprise identity hosted in Azure (e.g., single sign-on/federation concepts) - Create and maintain architecture artifacts using the C4 model and supporting HLD/LLD documentation - Embed and enforce Zero Trust access concepts into infrastructure and platform designs by defining secure access patterns in coordination with Security B) Kubernetes & Platform Architecture - Design and govern Kubernetes-based hosting platforms and workloads, including cluster architecture, networking (ingress/egress), segmentation, and connectivity patterns - Define operational requirements for Kubernetes environments: observability, upgrade strategy, capacity, resilience, and security baselines C) BAU, Incident/Problem Management & Operational Excellence - Participate actively in BAU operations, including major i…