Job Description

Your responsibilities

Are you passionate about technology and interested in supporting the CERN research communities? Join the CERN IT Platforms Group and the team responsible for the Web Hosting services for the thousands of web sites and web applications deployed by the CERN communities.

As a member of the team responsible for the CERN Web Hosting services, you will:

• Be responsible for running the Web Hosting services based on Kubernetes and OpenShift at CERN, ensuring appropriate operations and support to our communities.
• Ensure support and growth of our PaaS platform based on OpenShift, in particular the integrations with CERN identity and networking via Kubernetes operators.
• Support the common tools for deployment and configuration of our platforms and applications, and extension of our services to public cloud resources.
• Provide guidance and support to the owners of web sites and applications, including providing migration paths for remaining legacy web servers to the modern Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.

Your profile

Skills

• Good knowledge of cloud native technologies, particularly Kubernetes and/or OpenShift/OKD. CKA/CKAD/CKS certification is a plus.
• Experience with Linux system administration.
• Experience with security tool sets.
• Problem solving attitude.

Language requirements: Fluent in English

Eligibility criteria:

• You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
• By the application deadline, you have a maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in Software Engineering (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.

Additional Information

Job closing date: 10 November, 2024 at 23:59 CET.

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

Target start date: 01-January-2025

This position involves: Stand-by duty, when required by the needs of the Organization.

Job reference: IT-PW-2024-177-GRAE

Field of work: Software Engineering and IT

What we offer

• A monthly stipend ranging between 5134 and 5647 Swiss Francs (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

At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. Using the world’s largest and most complex scientific instruments, they study the basic constituents of matter – fundamental particles that are made to collide together at close to the speed of light. The process gives physicists clues about how particles interact, and provides insights into the fundamental laws of nature. Find out more on http://home.cern.

Diversity has been an integral part of CERN’s mission since its foundation and is an established value of the Organization. Employing a diverse workforce is central to our success.