6 days ago
Geneva, SwitzerlandEntry Level
Responsibilities
- Operate and maintain EOS large-scale distributed storage services supporting CERN’s scientific programs.
- Integrate, troubleshoot, and optimize distributed storage systems at exabyte scale across software, hardware, and network layers.
- Contribute to the development, testing, deployment, and automation of EOS platform capabilities and operational tools.
- Work with users, developers, service managers, and external collaborators to evolve CERN storage services.
- Participate in standby duty and work nights, Sundays, or official holidays when required.
Requirements
- Maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in Software Engineering or a related field by the application deadline.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree required; applicants without a university degree or with a PhD are not eligible.
- CERN Member or Associate Member State nationality required.
- Experience and good knowledge of Linux, networking, and storage technologies.
- Interest in distributed storage systems, data management platforms, large-scale scientific computing, and storage performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Understanding of replication, fault tolerance, caching, scheduling, and data consistency.
- Software development knowledge using modern programming languages such as C++ and Python.
- Linux administration, troubleshooting, performance optimization, automation, configuration, and operational tooling skills.
- Ability to communicate in spoken and written English and commitment to learn French.
- Applicants must not previously have held a CERN fellow or graduate contract.
Benefits
- 24-month contract with a possible extension up to 36 months.
- Fully onsite position with 40-hour work weeks.
- 30 days of paid leave per year plus a two-week annual closure.
- CERN health insurance coverage, CERN Pension Fund membership, and potential family, child, and infant allowances.
- Relocation support may include an installation grant and travel expenses.
- On-the-job and formal training, including language classes.
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.