Job Description

Your responsibilities

The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) project is a global collaboration of around 170 computing centres in more than 40 countries, linking up national and international grid infrastructures. The WLCG collaboration is constantly looking for ways to improve and increase the efficiency of the computing resources used by the High Energy Physics (HEP) community. To achieve this goal, the community needs benchmarking tools that accurately reflect the computing needs of HEP experiments.

As a talented individual, you will join our team in the role of Development, Operation, and User Support for the benchmarking services within the WLCG project. In this position, you will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing services critical to the benchmarking activities including data collection, processing, visualization, and insights extraction, as well as python development of new benchmarking modules.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Service Maintenance and Enhancement: Ensure the seamless operation of existing services using technologies such as Puppet, GitLab CI/CD, ActiveMQ, Logstash, OpenSearch, Kibana, Grafana and Docker containers.
• HEP Benchmark Software Development: Actively contribute to the development of the High Energy Physics (HEP) benchmark software stack, leveraging advanced Python development skills, including packaging and distribution.
• Technical Support: Provide expert technical support in the benchmark and data analytics areas to the WLCG user community.

Your profile

Skills and/or knowledge

• Advanced Python Development: Proficiency in Python programming, including experience with packaging and distributing Python applications.
• DevOps practices: Expertise in GitLab CI/CD, Puppet configuration, test automation, and deployment methodologies.
• Data Analytics Pipelines and Processing: Proficiency with monitoring and data analytics tools such as ActiveMQ, Logstash, OpenSearch, Apache Spark, Kibana, Grafana.
• Containerization and Orchestration: Expertise in Docker containers
• Linux Environment: Strong skills in working within a Linux environment, including shell scripting, system administration and CPU/GPU hardware performance metrics.
• Fluent in English

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• You have a professional background in Software Engineering (or a related field) and have either:
  • a Master’s degree with 2 to 6 years of post-graduation professional experience;
  • or a PhD with no more than 3 years of post-graduation professional experience.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.

Additional Information

Job closing date: September 19 at 23:59 CEST.

Job reference: IT-GOV-ENG-2024-149-GRAP

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

Target start date: 01-November-2024

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 6212 and 6828 Swiss Francs per month (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.

We are on a Quest. A Journey into discovery like no other. Bring your expertise to our unique work and develop your knowledge and skills at pace. Join world-class subject matter experts on unique projects, in a Quest for greater knowledge and deeper understanding.

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