Job Description

Your responsibilities

The IT Platforms and Workflows (IT-PW) group provides solutions for web hosting and authoring, identity and access management as well as platforms for reproducible analysis workflows. These tools are offered to all CERN users.

As part of the IT-PW group, the Application and Reusable Workflow (ARW) section is hosting some of the most critical Java applications for CERN daily life and Single Sign On Infrastructure based on Keycloak. The service is built on Kubernetes and makes wide use of CNCF opensource tools.

As a successful candidate you will :

• Help with Operations of Kubernetes systems
  • Automate and upgrade deployment processes of infrastructure components
  • Keep up to date all tools and components used in the service
• Help with maintenance and operations of Puppet based systems
• Be in contact with other IT teams to:
  • Maintain and operate Logging Infrastructure
• Develop new features as requested by developer communities

Your profile

Skills and/or knowledge

• Problem solving attitude
• Knowledge of container orchestration tools (e.g. Kubernetes)
• Administration capabilities of Linux based computing systems
• Knowledge of logging infrastructure such as OpenSearch and Fluent bit/Fluentd
• Knowledge of automation and declarative tools such as ArgoCD, Terraform etc.

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 Software engineering (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.

Additional Information

Job closing date: 14.04.2024 at 12:00 AM (midnight) CEST.

Job reference: IT-PW-2024-34-GRAE

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

Target start date: 01-September-2024

This position requires:

• Stand-by duty, 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.