Monitoring Service Operations Engineer

Big Science Sweden; Genf; Hybrid; CHF 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Big Science Sweden is looking for a team member for the CERN IT Monitoring infrastructure in Geneva, Switzerland. The role involves operating and evolving monitoring solutions using technologies such as Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Apache Kafka. Candidates should have a maximum of 2 years of professional experience and hold a bachelor's or master's degree, without having held a PhD. This position is crucial for providing monitoring services to the CERN Datacenter and WLCG communities.

Qualifications

• Maximum of 2 years of professional experience since graduation.
• Must hold a university degree but cannot have a PhD.

Responsibilities

• Participate in operating, maintaining and evolving monitoring solutions.
• Handle technologies such as Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Apache Kafka.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

The CERN IT Monitoring infrastructure provides monitoring services for the CERN Datacenter and the WLCG and CERN experimental communities. Our infrastructure and services process over 100 thousand log messages per second and expose over 160 million active time series and over 200 billion stored documents exposed to a community of more than 6000 active users. As a member of the Monitoring team you will participate in operating, maintaining and evolving a diverse portfolio of centrally offered monitoring solutions based on technologies such as Grafana and related products, OpenTelemetry, the Prometheus ecosystem, Apache Kafka (connectors, stream applications), Kubernetes, FluentBit, OpenSearch and Apache Spark among others.

Be sure to meet the eligibility criteria

• 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 in the job posting.