Database Platform Engineer

Big Science Sweden; Genf; Hybrid; CHF 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

CERN's Database and Analytics group seeks a skilled professional to operate and support the Database on Demand (DBOD) service, used by numerous IT services and experiments.

You will work on MySQL, PostgreSQL, and InfluxDB instances, providing configuration management, monitoring, backup and recovery, replication, and high availability across multiple lifecycles.

Job description

Join CERN’s Database and Analytics group to operate and support the Database on Demand (DBOD) service, used by many IT services, and across CERN’s experimental programme. The DBOD service provides more than one thousand MySQL, PostgreSQL, and InfluxDB instances, through multiple lifecycle environments, offering to its users administrative functionality and features such as configuration management, monitoring, backup and recovery, replication, and high availability.

Be sure to meet the eligibility criteria

• You are a national of aCERN Member State or Associate Member State . Currently, we cannot consider applications from Pakistani and Lithuanian nationals for positions with a 2026 start date, as the ceiling defined under Article II.5 of the Associate Membership Agreement has been reached.
• By the application deadline, you have a maximum of 2 years of professional experience since graduation in the respective field and your highest educational qualification is either a bachelor’s or master’s degree. You must have a university degree and can’t hold a PhD.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
• Please pay attention to the additional criteria and requirements for this specific position and mentioned above.