Your responsibilities

Join the CERN IT Cloud team to work on the 10'000 node bare metal fleet we manage!

Are you a talented Computing Engineer who would like to come and work with computing at scale, helping run the cloud computing infrastructure underpinning most of the CERN and LHC experiment services? As a member of the team responsible for the OpenStack-based cloud service, you will help evolving our infrastructure, with a mixture of operational and development tasks.

Your main functions will include:

• Running and helping to evolve CERN IT's OpenStack based cloud infrastructure.
• Running and helping to evolve the life-cycle management of bare metal servers with our OpenStack/Ironic API and framework: Maintain the Ironic control plane, integrate new server deliveries, provide nodes to our various user communities, or maintain the tooling to support burn-in, stress-testing, or phase-out.
• Contribute to the OpenStack/Ironic code base, leveraging our links with the upstream community.

Your profile

Skills and/or knowledge

Required:

• Strong knowledge of the Linux Operating System
• Experience with git code version control -
• Experience in Python

Desired:

• Experience with config management systems, such as Puppet or Ansible
• Experience with management of physical servers or BMC protocols such as IPMI or Redfish

Language requirements:

• 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 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.

Job closing date: 14 April at 12:00 AM (midnight) CEST.

Job reference: IT-CD-CLI-2024-64-GRAE

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

Target start date: 01-September-2024

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 5119 and 5631 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.