Job Description

Your responsibilities

You are a scientist/engineer interested to join a diverse team of professionals working for the Compact Muon Solid (CMS) experiment in the monitoring infrastructure team.

In this role, you will

• Operate, maintain and develop the monitoring system of the CMS computing infrastructure.
• Support and implement monitoring tools and dashboards for the software and computing teams of the CMS experiment.
• Use the next generation of industry tools to handle Big Data (e.g. Kubernetes, Kafka, InfluxDB, HDFS, ApacheSpark, ElasticSearch, Grafana and Kibana with additional services such as Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics and MongoDB
• Learn enough details to be able to transfer knowledge of the monitoring methods to the operations team at large,
• Actively use the monitoring tools to understand issues and features of the CMS compute infrastructure and autonomously improve the tools to facilitate operations understanding and debugging.

There are ample opportunities for showing creativity and initiative.

Your profile

Skills

• Experience with Linux service management and system administration, software development and code design, continuous integration
• Experience with python and shell scripting
• Experience with Linux containers, Kubernetes, Grafana and/or Kibana, while not required, is highly desirable
• Experience with Spark and ElasticSearch is a plus

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 Computer Science, 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: 14.01.2024 at 23:59 hrs CET.

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

Working hours: 40 hours per week

Target start date: 01-April-2025

Job reference: EP-CMG-CO-2024-202-GRAE

Field of work: Data Science & Data Analytics

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.