Junior Distributed Storage Engineer

Big Science Sweden; Genf; Hybrid; CHF 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

CERN IT Storage and Data Management Group in Switzerland invites applications for a role in the EOS Storage Development and Operations team. You will help operate and evolve large-scale, reliable storage services that support researchers worldwide.

You will collaborate with developers and service managers to improve automation, observability, reliability and performance of CERN’s storage services, and gain experience in operations of innovative, open-source platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree; PhD not eligible.
• Max 2 years of professional experience since graduation.
• Citizenship: must be national of a CERN Member State or Associate Member State; some nationalities not eligible.
• No prior CERN fellow or graduate contract.

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree

Job description

Work with us to evolve the CERN data storage systems used at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC).

Join the CERN IT Storage and Data Management Group and work with us on services and technology which enables scientific progress at CERN!

You will be part of the EOS Storage Development and Operations team, delivering large-scale, reliable, high-performance storage services. Today, our infrastructure manages more than 1 Exabyte of disk storage and serves around 10 Exabytes of data annually to researchers and computing facilities worldwide.

In this role, you will have an opportunity to learn, contribute and gain experience in operations and evolution of innovative, open-source storage platform. You will also work closely with developers and service managers to improve automation, observability, reliability and performance of CERN’s storage services.

Be sure to meet the eligibility criteria

• You are a national of a CERN Member State or Associate Member State . Currently, we cannot consider applications from Pakistani, Lithuanian, Latvian, Cypriot, Croatian and Turkish nationals, 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.