IT Storage Operations Engineer

vor 4 Wochen


Geneva, Schweiz CERN Vollzeit

Job Description

Your responsibilities

The CERN IT Storage and Data Management group (IT-SD) operates the core services used by LHC and non-LHC experiments to collect their data, to enable data archival, reconstruction and analysis and to distribute them to archiving and computing facilities around the world (Worldwide LHC Computing Grid).

You will join the disk storage operations team which is responsible to provide dependable data services to the laboratory and their scientific activities. CERN's storage systems are continuously evolved to adapt to changing users' and experiments' needs with respect to functionality and performance and to further reduce their operational costs at CERN and in its partner institutions. Today we deliver more than 5 Exabyte of data per year and we are responsible to manage more than 1 Exabyte of disk storage.

You will work with a number of technologies ranging from software defined disk technologies, high-level operations of Linux-based disk servers and large-scale data management for our multi-petabyte farms.

You will be responsible for the smooth operations of the data services, execution of maintenance operations, participation in the day-by-day operations, incident response and user support.

Your profile

Skills and/or knowledge

Linux administration Python Shell scripting CI/CD tools Configuration management tools Fluent in English, the ability to work in French would be an advantage.

Eligibility criteria:

You are a national of a . 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: July 01   at 23:59 PM CEST.

Job reference: IT-SD-PDS-2024-66-GRAE

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

Target start date: 01-August-2024

This position requires:

Participation in a regular stand-by duty, including nights, Sundays and official holidays. Stand-by duty, when required by the needs of the Organization. Work during nights, Sundays and official holidays, when required by the needs of the Organization.

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

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.


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