Job Description

Your responsibilities

The ATLAS System Administration team manages the ATLAS online computing infrastructure. This is a mission-critical heterogeneous computing system composed by roughly four thousand computers operated by a few thousand users.

The System Administration team is responsible for all aspects associated with such a large installation, including hardware upkeep and refurbishment, computing infrastructure, operating system deployment and tuning, operational monitoring and computer security.

The selected candidate will be fully integrated in the System Administration team, working and collaborating with the existing experts and will share all team duties, from the day to day system operation to user support and troubleshooting.

In due time the candidate will also take responsibility for specific projects, like the improvement of the monitoring and configuration management systems.

Your profile

Skills and/or knowledge

• Linux Operating System, in particular RHEL variants
• Scripting languages (e.g. Bash, Python)
• Development tools on Linux (e.g. Git)
• Computer hardware troubleshooting and maintenance

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 Computer Science (or a related field) and your highest educational qualification is a general secondary education diploma.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
• Applicants with a Bachelors, Masters or PhD degree are not eligible.