As a Cloud and Network Services Engineer in the Compute and Devices (CD) group you will contribute to the efficient provisioning of compute resources to CERN users and experiments via CERN IT’s private cloud offering. Specifically, you will:

• Join the team operating and evolving the OpenStack based private cloud service in CERN IT and contribute to secure compute resource delivery via virtual and physical machines to users, services, and experiments;
• Drive the evolution of Software Defined Networking (SDN) across our two data centres to enhance the network related offerings for our user communities and to increase CERN’s security posture.

We are looking for someone with the following demonstrated experience/skills:

• Experience in operating and optimizing large-scale, mission-critical production services.
• Good knowledge of current network technologies, protocols, and tools in cloud and cloud native environments. 
• Good knowledge of system administration, in particular Linux environments.
• Knowledge of configuration management tools such as Puppet, and monitoring of distributed systems.
• Experience in programming techniques and languages, in particular Python programming.
• Experience in dealing with user relations, user support, and user requirements definition.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and DevOps practices.

Additional experience/skills in the following areas would be an asset:

• Experience with cloud computing platforms, such as OpenStack, or SDN solutions, such as OVN, would be an asset.

Contact: Alex Iribarren & Jose Castro Leon