Your responsibilities
The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG) project is a global collaboration of around 170 computing centres in more than 40 countries, linking up national and international grid infrastructures. The WLCG collaboration is constantly looking for ways to improve and increase the efficiency of the computing resources used by the High Energy Physics (HEP) community. To achieve this goal, the community needs benchmarking tools that accurately reflect the computing needs of HEP experiments.
As a talented individual, you will join our team in the role of Development, Operation, and User Support for the benchmarking services within the WLCG project. In this position, you will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing services critical to the benchmarking activities including data collection, processing, visualization, and insights extraction, as well as python development of new benchmarking modules.
Your key responsibilities include:
Service Maintenance and Enhancement: Ensure the seamless operation of existing services using technologies such as Puppet, GitLab CI/CD, ActiveMQ, Logstash, OpenSearch, Kibana, Grafana and Docker containers.HEP Benchmark Software Development: Actively contribute to the development of the High Energy Physics (HEP) benchmark software stack, leveraging advanced Python development skills, including packaging and distribution.Technical Support: Provide expert technical support in the benchmark and data analytics areas to the WLCG user community.Your profile
Skills and Technologies:
Advanced Python Development: Proficiency in Python programming, including experience with packaging and distributing Python applications.DevOps practices: Expertise in GitLab CI/CD, Puppet configuration, test automation, and deployment methodologies.Data Analytics Pipelines and Processing: Proficiency with monitoring and data analytics tools such as ActiveMQ, Logstash, OpenSearch, Apache Spark, Kibana, Grafana.Containerization and Orchestration: Expertise in Docker containersLinux Environment: Strong skills in working within a Linux environment, including shell scripting, system administration and CPU/GPU hardware performance metrics.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.Job closing date: June 13 at 23:59 PM CEST.
Job reference: IT-GOV-ENG-2024-40-GRAE
Contract duration: 24 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum.
Target start date: 01-August-2024
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.
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