Job Description

Your responsibilities

Join CERN’s Storage and Data Management group, to evolve the data storage systems used at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and across CERN’s experimental programme. The Storage and Data Management Group (IT-SD) is responsible for enabling data access for the laboratory. The group manages more than one exabyte of storage across about 2,000 data servers and 50,000 high-capacity tapes. CERN, take part!

As a Full-Stack Computing Engineer (Data Storage Systems), you will join the CERNBox team, responsible for providing disk-based cloud storage to the whole CERN community, ranging from Scientists to Engineers or Administrative users. Your job will include both software development and operations tasks.

On the operations side, you will take part in troubleshooting problems and diagnosing the cause of any system failures. This will include interaction with user support tickets as well as other storage services in the IT-SD group.

On the software development side, you will diagnose and fix bugs and security vulnerabilities, and contribute new software features according to the needs of the service.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Maintaining and developing software in Go and/or Javascript
• Optimisation and automation of storage services
• Contributing to procedures and documentation
• Participate in the operations, troubleshooting and support as part of a team

Your profile

Skills and/or knowledge

This position would suit a candidate with some experience, or a strong interest, in either front or backend development, and a desire to evolve into a full-stack development and operations profile.

Required skills:

• Go and/or Javascript software development
• Linux administration
• Experience with git version control system
• Scripting in Bash and Python

Skills which would be an advantage (but not required; training will be provided where necessary):

• Knowledge of Javascript frameworks such as Vue3
• Experience with containers (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of monitoring tools (e.g. Grafana, Prometheus)

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• By the application deadline, you have a maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in Computing/Software or Physical Sciences (or a related field) and 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.

Qualifications

Additional Information

Job closing date: April 14 at 23:59 PM CEST.

Job reference: IT-SD-GSS-2024-30-GRAE

Contract duration: 24 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum.

Target start date: 01-May-2024

This position requires:

• Participation in a regular stand-by duty, including nights, Sundays and official holidays.
• Stand-by duty, when required by the needs of the Organization.
• Work during nights, Sundays and official holidays, when required by the needs of the Organization.

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 5119 and 5631 Swiss Francs (net of tax).
• Coverage by CERN’s comprehensive health scheme (for yourself, your spouse and children), and membership of the CERN Pension Fund.
• Depending on your individual circumstances: installation grant; family, child and infant allowances; payment of travel expenses at the beginning and end of contract.
• 30 days of paid leave per year.
• On-the-job and formal training at CERN as well as in-house language courses for English and/or French.

About us

At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. Using the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments, they study the basic constituents of matter – fundamental particles that are made to collide together at close to the speed of light. The process gives physicists clues about how particles interact, and provides insights into the fundamental laws of nature. Find out more on http://home.cern.

Diversity has been an integral part of CERN’s mission since its foundation and is an established value of the Organization. Employing a diverse workforce is central to our success.