DevOps Engineer for Data Management (IT-SD-GSS-2024-146-GRAP)

Your responsibilities

The CERN IT Storage and Data Management group (IT-SD) operates the core services used by LHC and non-LHC experiments to store and manage their data, to enable data archival, reconstruction and analysis and to distribute them to archiving and computing facilities around the world (Worldwide LHC Computing Grid). The group also contributes to data management services operated in the LHC experiments.

As successful candidate you will work on Rucio, which is an open source data management platform that has been adopted by two major LHC experiments at CERN (ATLAS and CMS), and which is also used by many other scientific experiments around the world. Rucio manages more than 1 Exabyte of data worldwide across multiple data centres.

Moreover you will work on a project that allows better integration between Rucio and the services provided by the CERN IT department. In particular, you will work on the implementation and operation of the Rucio Open Data interfaces. Open Data is part of CERN's Open Science mission to make research data publicly available and to empower citizens around the world to explore data produced by the LHC.

Daily operations, incident response and user support will be part of your work experience as well.

You will work with a number of technologies surrounding the Rucio project and CERN IT services: development in Python, interfacing with storage systems, high-level operations of Linux-based machines and large-scale data management systems.

Your profile

Skills and/or knowledge

• Programming languages: Python (required), Go (bonus)
• Experience with Web frameworks and the REST API design
• Linux system administration
• Containers and K8s
• Fluent in English

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• You have a professional background in MSc or PhD in Computing (or a related field) and have either:
  • a Master's degree with 2 to 6 years of post-graduation professional experience;
  • or a PhD with no more than 3 years of post-graduation professional experience.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.

Job closing date: 12 September at 23:59 CEST

Job reference: IT-SD-GSS-2024-146-GRAP

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

Target start date: 01-January-2025

This position requires:

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

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 6212 and 6828 Swiss Francs per month (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

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