CERN Position: Computing Engineer (Monitoring) (IT-DA-ASM-2025-256-LD)

Location: Geneva, ch

Company Description:

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.

Job Description:

Introduction:

You will join: The Analytics, Streaming and Monitoring section which provides messaging, data streaming, monitoring platforms and services, and frontend analytics services for the different CERN communities to facilitate data collection, transport, manipulation, processing, interactive data analysis and central reporting solutions.

Moreover, the section works with the Experiments, Accelerator sector, IT and other CERN communities interested in implementing data analysis solutions with these technologies.

Functions:

As a Computer Engineer in the Database and Analytics Group, you will:

• Contribute to the development and evolution of the monitoring service.
• Manage the monitoring services and applications, including metrics, logging, alerting and visualisation tools.
• Oversee the monitoring infrastructure, the deployment of software packages, and the operation of the service, ensuring performance and security.
• Provide user support on monitoring, including for WLCG and LHC experiments.
• Offer consultancy, assistance and advice to end users developing data pipelines and monitoring use-cases.
• Contribute to the operations of other services in the section, such as the interactive analytics infrastructure (SWAN, Jupyter Notebooks), and the Messaging and Data Streaming Services.

Qualifications:

Master”s degree or equivalent relevant experience in the field of Computer Science or a related field.

Experience:

• Proven experience in software development using (Java or Python).
• Knowledge of established open-source technologies such as OpenTelemetry, Kafka, Spark, OpenSearch and Grafana.
• Analysis of performance to scale the monitoring infrastructure to an ever-growing workload.
• Devops operations (Linux systems) and configuration management experience (e.g. Ansible, Puppet) in Agile development environments and/or cloud native deployments, including tool development, packaging and deployment in Python, Java and Go ecosystems.
• Operation of large-scale production Kubernetes environments (e.g Helm, ArgoCD).
• Technical and troubleshooting skills with Kubernetes components, web interfaces and data analysis engines and packages (e.g. Apache Spark).

Technical competencies:

• Knowledge of system configuration tools: familiarity with automation tools for infrastructure delivery and management.
• Knowledge of programming techniques and languages: java knowledge is required. UNIX shell script, Python and Go programming skills would be an advantage.
• Knowledge of operating systems: such as Linux.
• Capturing and analysis of requirements for ICT systems: ability to collect the needs of users and to manage the different phases of a project.
• Architecture and design of ICT systems: distributed applications and services.

Behavioural competencies:

• Solving Problems: identifying, defining and assessing problems, taking action to address them.
• Achieving Results: delivering high quality work on time and fulfilling expectations.
• Working in Teams: building and maintaining constructive and effective work relationships.
• Communicating Effectively: delivering presentations in a structured and clear way; adjusting style and content to the audience; responding calmly and confidently to questions.
• Learning and Sharing Knowledge: keeping up-to-date with developments in own field of expertise and readily absorbing new information.

Language skills:

Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.

Additional Information:

Eligibility and closing date:

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. We welcome applications from all Member States and Associate Member States.

This vacancy will be filled as soon as possible, and applications should normally reach us no later than 04.01.2026 at 23:59 CET.

Employment Conditions

Contract type: Limited duration contract (5 years). Subject to certain conditions, holders of limited-duration contracts may apply for an indefinite position.

Working Hours: 40 hours per week

Job Flexibility: Hybrid

This position involves:

• Work during nights, Sundays and official holidays, when required by the needs of the Organization.
• Stand-by duty, when required by the needs of the Organization.

Job grade: 6-7

Job reference: IT-DA-ASM-2025-256-LD

Field of work: Software Engineering and IT

Benchmark Job Title: Computing Engineer

Level of Education: Master Degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24