Job Description
Your responsibilities
Are you a talented DevOps Engineer who would like to come and help keep the services - that store, distribute, and analyse data generated by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - running ? The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) provides 1.4 million compute cores, 1.5 exabytes of storage from over 170 sites in 42 countries. This is distributed computing infrastructure on a global scale, and requires monitoring and full-stack testing in order to keep it running smoothly for the 12.000 physicists around the world who rely on it.
The Compute and Devices (CD) group in CERN IT provides a wide range of compute services, all the way from end user devices, through cloud infrastructure-as-a- Service, configuration management, batch and HPC computing at CERN, together with a set of services that support the whole WLCG.
As a member of the Compute and Configuration (CC) section of the CD group, you will join a team of engineers in charge of these services. We run the compute facility that comprises approximately 20% of the WLCG, using tools such as Puppet, OpenStack and Kubernetes to manage batch systems running HTCondor, HPC systems running SLURM, and the support services keeping everything glued together.
Your main functions will include:
Your profile
Skills and/or knowledge
Strong knowledge of Python, Linux, Git Desirable: Django, Nagios, Puppet, KubernetesFluent in English, the ability to work in French would be an advantage.Eligibility criteria:
You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.You have a maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in Computer Science (or a related field) by the application deadline.Your highest educational qualification is either a Bachelor's or Master's degree.You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.Applicants without University degree are not eligible.Applicants with a PhD are not eligible.Additional Information
Job closing date: January 19 at 23:59 PM (midnight) CET.
Job reference: IT-CD-CC-2023-7-GRAE
Contract duration: 24 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum.
Target start date: 01-May-2024
Documents required to complete your application:
A CVA scanned PDF of your most recent relevant qualification