Junior Distributed Storage Engineer

Join the CERN IT Storage and Data Management Group to operate and evolve large-scale distributed storage services supporting CERN's scientific programmes. Gain experience in operations and development of innovative, open-source storage platforms at exabyte scale.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain EOS large-scale distributed storage services supporting CERN's scientific programmes.
• Integrate, troubleshoot and optimise 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.
• Liaise with users, developers, service managers and external collaborators to support the evolution of CERN storage services.

Requirements

• You are a national of a CERN Member State or Associate Member State, excluding Pakistani, Lithuanian, Latvian, Cypriot, Croatian and Turkish nationals due to Associate Membership Agreement ceilings.
• By the application deadline, you have a maximum of 2 years of professional experience since graduation in the respective field.
• Your highest educational qualification is either a bachelor’s or master’s degree; you must have a university degree and cannot hold a PhD.
• You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
• Experience and good knowledge of Linux, networking and storage technologies.
• Interest in distributed storage systems, data management platforms and large-scale scientific computing.
• Interest in storage performance, scalability and reliability challenges.
• Understanding of concepts such as replication, fault tolerance, caching, scheduling and data consistency.
• Your studies focused on Software Engineering.
• Software development and knowledge of modern programming languages (e.g. C++, Python, Git, CI/CD).
• Linux administration, troubleshooting and performance optimisation.
• Automation, configuration and operational tooling.
• Collaboration skills and working in diverse teams.
• Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.

Skills

• Linux OS Administration
• Networking Technologies
• Storage Technologies
• Distributed Storage Systems
• Data Management Platforms
• Scientific Computing
• Storage Performance Optimization
• Scalability Engineering
• Reliability Engineering
• Replication Concepts
• Fault Tolerance
• Caching Techniques
• Scheduling Algorithms
• Data Consistency
• Software Engineering
• Software Development
• C/C++ Programming
• Python Programming
• Git
• CI/CD
• Technical Troubleshooting
• Automation
• Configuration Management Database
• Operational Tooling

Languages

English, French