Monitoring Infrastructure Engineer
 

Main Tasks  

• Participation to the operations, development and improvement of the Monitoring service.
• User support on monitoring for other IT services and joining the regular support rota for the IT and WLCG users.
• Advice and solution design to IT service managers and LHC experiments staff on the use of the unified monitoring infrastructure and of the monitoring data.
• Daily management of the monitoring services which includes third level service user support, deployment of software packages, operation of the service with verification of performance and security.
• Automation using Agile/DevOps tools such as Puppet to support monitoring within the standard CERN IT procedures.
• Interaction and contribution to Open Source communities such and Grafana, Prometheus and Collectd.
• Definition, documentation and implementation of procedures following the standards of the IT Department.
• Close collaboration with other IT groups, departments and physics experiments at CERN.

Experience Needed  

• Proven experience in software development, with knowledge of established open source technologies such as Collectd, Prometheus, Kafka, Spark, ElasticSearch, InfluxDB and Grafana.
• Managing large scale server deployments in a complex environment such as OpenStack cloud services or virtualisation systems such as KVM.
• Performing automation tasks using scripting languages such as Python and deploying services using configuration system solutions such as Puppet.
• Analysis of performance to scale them to the monitoring infrastructure to an ever-growing world load.