As a Computing Engineer specialised in System Administration, you will join a passionate team and take an important role in the operation of the CERN accelerator control system infrastructure. Furthermore, you will participate in numerous strategic projects for the future in terms of operating systems and container and orchestration technology.
Responsibilities:
Perform system administration tasks for the Linux computers connected to the accelerator control system (control room consoles, data centre servers, real-time embedded platforms and virtual machines).
Communicate with end-users to understand their needs and help translate these into appropriate solutions.
Investigate, diagnose, and resolve operational problems in collaboration with end-users ranging from equipment specialists to operations teams.
Participate actively in the strategic evolution of the accelerator control system infrastructure towards container technology hosted upon Kubernetes.
Perform system administration tasks for the Linux computers connected to the accelerator control system (control room consoles, data centre servers, real-time embedded platforms and virtual machines).
Communicate with end-users to understand their needs and help translate these into appropriate solutions.
Investigate, diagnose, and resolve operational problems in collaboration with end-users ranging from equipment specialists to operations teams.
Participate actively in the strategic evolution of the accelerator control system infrastructure towards container technology hosted upon Kubernetes.
Requirements:
Master's degree or equivalent relevant experience in the field of Computer Science or a related field.
Linux operating system.
High-performance and high-availability commercial server platforms.
Container technologies (such as Docker and Podman).
Administration of an on-premise Kubernetes infrastructure and associated services (e.g. ArgoCD, Hashicorp Vault and Prometheus) with an awareness of architectural concerns and management of the lifecycles of the involved services, including upgrades and integration with network storage.
Diagnostic and monitoring solutions for the aforementioned technologies, with the awareness of security aspects to be considered in their deployment.
Configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or similar and a version control system such as Git.
Interest in software failure analysis, diagnostics, and validation in a Linux environment.
