DevOps Engineer — Large-Scale Compute & HPC (Hybrid)

CERN; Genf; Hybrid; CHF 59.000 - 65.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Stipend CHF 5,266–5,793 per month

30 days paid leave + 2 weeks annual &

Health insurance & CERN Pension Fund

Family allowances

Relocation package

Contract extension up to 36 months

On-the-job and language training

Zusammenfassung

Join CERN IT's Compute and Configuration (CC) team as a DevOps Engineer for Large Scale Compute. You will help manage a 400k+ core fleet, automate provisioning, and contribute to config management with Puppet/OpenVox, Foreman, and OpenStack/Kubernetes stacks.

The role emphasizes automation, scale, and security, with a hybrid work model in Geneva. Recent graduates with up to two years of experience and a Bachelor's or Master's degree are encouraged to apply.

Qualifikationen

• Experience administering or working with Linux systems in a server or data centre environment.
• Experience writing scripts or applications for automation or system tasks.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Puppet or Ansible is a plus.
• Experience with container technologies, CI/CD systems or Infrastructure-as-Code tools is a plus.
• Knowledge of Linux, programming or scripting languages such as Python or Go.
• Familiarity with git for distributed version control is highly desirable.
• Knowledge of configuration management tools such as Puppet or Ansible is desirable.
• Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or OpenTofu would be a plus.
• Any knowledge of batch systems such as HTCondor, SLURM or kueue would be a plus.
• Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.
• By the application deadline, you have a maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in Computer Science (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.

Aufgaben

• Help manage the fleet of 400k+ cores complete lifecycle from CI provisioning through automated and AI enhanced maintenance.
• Help keep us ahead of LLM enhanced security threats with monitoring.
• Suggest, test, and deploy configuration changes on a large scale to production.
• Contribute to the operation and maintenance of the current configuration management infrastructure, including Foreman, Puppet and OpenVox components.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of Terraform/OpenTofu modules used to provision and configure the supporting infrastructure.
• Improve the quality of the configuration code through testing, validation, code review and standardisation.

Kenntnisse

Linux systems

Scripting/automation

Container technologies

CI/CD

Python or Go

Git

English language

French learning

Infrastructure as Code

Batch systems knowledge (HTCondor/SLUR

Ausbildung

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Puppet

Ansible

Foreman

OpenVox

Terraform/OpenTofu

Jobbeschreibung

Join CERN IT's Compute and Configuration (CC) team as a DevOps Engineer for Large Scale Compute. You will help manage a 400k+ core fleet, automate provisioning, and contribute to config management with Puppet/OpenVox, Foreman, and OpenStack/Kubernetes stacks.

The role emphasizes automation, scale, and security, with a hybrid work model in Geneva. Recent graduates with up to two years of experience and a Bachelor's or Master's degree are encouraged to apply.