Software and Infrastructure Engineer

Contribute to developing, deploying, and maintaining the Open Research Europe publishing platform based on Open Journal Systems (OJS). Work under guidance of a senior engineer to develop, test, and operate the platform and its integrations ensuring secure and reliable service delivery in collaboration with business and editorial teams.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to developing the OJS application and plugins, testing integrations with external services.
• Contribute improvements to open-source projects such as OJS and related components.
• Assist in the deployment and maintenance of the Open Research Europe infrastructure using Kubernetes/OpenShift and automated CI/CD workflows.
• Participate in system testing, performance checks, documentation of procedures, and day-to-day operational support.

Requirements

• You are a national of a CERN Member State or Associate Member State, excluding Pakistani, Lithuanian, Latvian, Cypriot and Croatian 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.
• Demonstrated experience in developing web applications, in particular PHP and Laravel stack.
• Familiarity with Open Journal Systems (OJS) source code, plugin system and workflows is a plus.
• Experience with containerised infrastructure and orchestration tools (Kubernetes or OpenShift), and knowledge of system administration, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation (e.g. Helm, GitLab CI) is a plus.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills, with an interest in open-source development and collaborative work.
• Your studies focused on Software Engineer or Computer Science.
• Scripting and integrations skills in PHP, Python & MySQL.
• Web platform management experience with Open Journal Systems (OJS) or similar.
• Deployment, Infrastructure and Containers orchestration skills: CI/CD, Docker, Helm, Kubernetes / OpenShift (Container orchestration).
• Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.

Skills

• PHP Development
• PHP Framework Laravel
• Open Journal Systems
• Containerised Infrastructure
• Kubernetes
• OpenShift
• System Administration
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Infrastructure Automation
• Helm
• Gitlab CI/CD
• Python Scripting
• MySQL
• Web-based Platform Management
• Software Development
• Open-source Software Development
• Deployment Automation

Languages

English, French