Job Description

Your responsibilities

Are you passionate about technology and interested in shaping how it can help improve scientific computing? Join the CERN IT Platforms Infrastructure team and help us improve the integration of our Kubernetes based infrastructure with external resources, in particular public cloud providers.

You will:

• Work closely with upstream projects such as Kubernetes, Kueue, OpenCost and many others to optimize scheduling and resource allocation and minimize both cost and carbon footprint. You will be expected to participate in regular project meetings and present our work at large conferences such as Kubecon.
• Work together with our scientific communities, collecting and prioritizing their use cases to scale out to external resources workloads in the area of data science and machine learning.
• Evaluate the different integration options for compute, storage and networking. Select the tools and technologies that will enable large data scientific computing as well as improve business continuity of our IT services.
• Ensure operations and end user support for the multiple components in the system.

Your profile

Skills

• Good knowledge of cloud native technologies, particularly Kubernetes. CKA/CKS certification is a plus.
• Experience with usage and administration of public cloud resources.
• Experience with Linux system administration.
• Fluent 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.
• By the application deadline, you have a maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in Computing Engineer, Computer Science (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: 28 November at 12:00 AM (midnight) CET.

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

Working hours: 40 hours per week

Target start date: 01-March-2025

Job reference: IT-CD-PI-2024-189-GRAE

Field of work: Software Engineering and IT

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 5134 and 5647 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.