CERN Position: Monitoring Service Operations Engineer (IT-DA-ASM-2025-285-GRAE)

Location: Geneva, ch

Job Description:

The CERN IT Monitoring infrastructure provides monitoring services for the CERN Datacenter and the WLCG and CERN experimental communities. Our infrastructure and services process over 100 thousand log messages per second and expose over 160 million active time series and over 200 billion stored documents exposed to a community of more than 6000 active users. As a member of the Monitoring team you will participate in operating, maintaining and evolving a diverse portfolio of centrally offered monitoring solutions based on technologies such as Grafana and related products, OpenTelemetry, the Prometheus ecosystem, Apache Kafka (connectors, stream applications), Kubernetes, FluentBit, OpenSearch and Apache Spark among others.

Your responsibilities

• Operate and evolve the monitoring infrastructure, including development in Go, Python and Java.
• Support end-user requests for integration, problem solving or consulting.
• Debugging and resolving performance or availability issues on distributed systems.

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Your profile

Experience:

• Experience operating and managing Kubernetes deployments of medium to large scale;
• Experience with observability tooling such as fluent-bit, the OpenTelemetry collector, Prometheus, etc;
• Experience using gitops tooling (ArgoCD) and/or infrastructure as code solutions such as terraform.

Skills:

• Proficiency in at least one of Python, Go or Java;
• Source code management tooling and gitops, CI/CD;
• Knowledge of container based environments and orchestration solutions (Docker/Podman, Kubernetes);
• Collaborative work;
• Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.

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 Science or related (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: 07.01.2026 at 23:59 CET.

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

Working hours: 40 hours per week

Job flexibility: Hybrid

Target start date: 01-May-2026

This position involves:

• Stand-by duty, when required by the needs of the Organisation.

Job reference: IT-DA-ASM-2025-285-GRAE

Field of work: Software Engineering and IT

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Global Benefits

• A monthly stipend between 5196-5716 Swiss Francs per month (tax free) depending on your degree.
• 30 days of paid leave per year plus 2 weeks annual closure.
• Coverage by CERN’s comprehensive health insurance scheme (for yourself, your spouse and children), and membership of the CERN Pension Fund.
• Family, child and infant monthly allowances depending on your individual circumstances.
• A relocation package (installation grant and travel expenses) depending on your individual circumstances.
• Possibility to extend your contract up to 36 months.
• On-the-job and formal training including language classes.

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Every day, we face exciting new challenges and opportunities to contribute to cutting-edge research that shapes our understanding of the universe. We meet these challenges through the diverse perspectives within our teams, ensuring every contribution is valued and driving our shared sense of inclusion and purpose. Diversity is a core value of CERN since its foundation, and it remains central to our mission and continued success.

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