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Geneva, SwitzerlandSenior
Responsibilities
- Manage and operate distributed Ceph-based block, object, and filesystem storage services.
- Design and evolve storage architectures across multiple availability zones and data centers.
- Integrate, troubleshoot, maintain, and optimize distributed storage systems at scale.
- Use C++ to diagnose Ceph code issues and contribute improvements to the upstream Ceph project.
- Improve automation, deployment, observability, documentation, and storage-service operations.
- Participate in change management, incident response, user support, and stakeholder coordination.
- Support storage initiatives involving HPC and AI/ML workloads and engage with international partners, conferences, and workshops.
Requirements
- Master’s degree or equivalent relevant experience in computer science or a related field.
- Strong interest in service management, including operations, troubleshooting, user support, configuration, and automation.
- Deep understanding of Linux performance, tuning, and administration.
- Deep understanding of distributed-storage and filesystem architecture, including technologies such as NFS and CephFS.
- Experience debugging complex distributed environments across hardware, network, and software layers.
- Demonstrated C++ software-development experience with distributed storage systems, preferably including Ceph source code.
- Good knowledge of scripting languages such as Python and shell.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills for working with cross-functional teams, users, and partners.
- Spoken and written English and a commitment to learn French.
Benefits
- Limited-duration five-year contract, with possible extension up to eight years and eligibility for an indefinite contract.
- Hybrid work arrangement.
- 40-hour work week, with night, Sunday, holiday, and standby duties when required.
- Competitive tax-free salary increasing with relevant experience.
- 30 days of paid leave annually plus a two-week annual closure.
- CERN health insurance coverage and membership in the CERN Pension Fund.
- Family, child, and infant monthly allowances depending on individual circumstances.
- Relocation package including installation grant, removal, and travel expenses, subject to individual circumstances.
About CERN
CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research, an intergovernmental, nonprofit laboratory headquartered in Meyrin, Switzerland (founded 1954). It designs, builds, and operates particle accelerators and detectors—most notably the Large Hadron Collider—and provides large-scale computing and data services for a worldwide physics community. Funded by its European Member States, CERN hosts thousands of visiting researchers and engineers and develops technologies ranging from control systems to identity and access management used across its experiments.