Location: ‘s-Hertogenbosch
Internships at Topigs Norsvin
At Topigs Norsvin we see value in offering interesting and challenging internships to students. This enables us to introduce our company to employees of the future and also learn from their approach to keep us sharp and open minded. We offer an environment where interns can safely develop, learn and grow professionally and personally.
Who are we?
Topigs Norsvin is the world-wide leading swine genetics company renowned for its innovative genetic solutions for cost-efficient and balanced pig production. Research, innovation and fast dissemination of genetic progress are cornerstones of our company. We are committed to help our customers to be successful in terms of production efficiency, meat quality, animal robustness and healthy high productivity.
In our words: balanced breeding and total feed efficiency.
What is the internship about?
The IT for our Genetic Nucleus infrastructure has recently been migrated to the cloud and we are currently using Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and HPC Wageningen as our Cloud providers. We have this multi cloud environment because of historical reasons and business needs.
API Gateway, Applications and tooling in Azure while our databases are Oracle technology.
Responsibilities of the IT for GN department can be subdivided into two major parts:
- Providing our customers daily with up to date Breeding Values.
- Providing our research team with tools and data needed to realize genetic progress.
Your challenge
In an environment where API gateway and tooling are in one cloud and the storage solution and computing environment in the next, provides challenges in security, orchestration and monitoring. Because we are new to these challenges, we are looking for cross cloud solutions that enable us to run jobs that transcend multiple cloud environment and at the same time monitor those jobs. Previously this was done by scheduling jobs from the crontab (TN) or by using Workload Automation (WLA) tools. In 2020 Gartner introduced the term Service Orchestration and Automation Platform (SOAP) where the SOAP solutions choreograph and manage applications and infrastructures across an enterprise-wide hybrid IT environment. There are a lot of solutions available.
Expected Results
You can help us out by exploring cross cloud possibilities for our current landscape. We would like to develop towards one cloud tool “in Charge” from where we run all our workload. Provide a functionality breakdown of the tools you think are most suitable, what are extra functionalities compared to Cronjob, setup multicloud job in preferred tool, demonstrate monitoring capabilities and inform us about what this means in terms of resources and costs.
Are you up for the task?
We are looking for Dutch based students meeting the following requirements:
- Currently pursuing an IT related education at Bachelor level or higher
- Eagerness to learn, curious mindset and ability to adapt to a challenging environment
- Good communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with team members
- Proficient English level (C1 spoken and written).
What we offer you
You will have the unique opportunity to contribute to our company goal: the world’s best and fastest translator of market needs into desired services/products, by generating genetic (data) solutions. Your input contributes to a sustainable change within our organization: from independent and protected task orientation to answering business issues in an innovative way with the help of IT! Furthermore:
- € 500 gross monthly internship allowance
- Compensation of travel kilometers to our office and/or external locations
- Guidance from experienced and highly skilled colleagues within a challenging environment
Interested?
For more information, contact Stefan Hofman, Domain Architect Breeding & Genetics, on telephone number +31 6 22 69 27 57.
Have a look at our website
www.topigsnorsvin.com
