Java/Kubernetes Engineer in IT-DB-DAR section

The IT-DB-DAR section provides services like the platform for third party and Java web applications for CERN’s administrative applications, Engineering Data Management Service, network services and many others. The section also provides the analytics reporting platform based on the open-source Pentaho tool.

As a Java/Kubernetes Engineer in the IT-DB group your main activities will consist of:

• Operation of production CERN Java applications deployed to Kubernetes (OpenStack Magnum)
• Maintenance and continuous developments of the Kubernetes based platform.
• Development of Apache Tomcat and Oracle WebLogic components like Docker images, monitoring, logging.
• Development and maintenance of Java-based authentication plugins for Apache Tomcat and Oracle WebLogic
• Provide advice and support of Tomcat, WebLogic as well as general Java web application design to developer communities
• Operation, support and development of Oracle Restful Data Services (ORDS) infrastructure.

Contact person: A. Wiecek

As part of the physics data services section the candidate will contribute to the design, development and  optimisation of the large-scale data transfer solution for the physics community at CERN and the World-Wide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG).

Main tasks for this position include the participation in the service operations and user support of the File Transfer Service (FTS) and an active participation in the communication with experiment and external WLCG site responsible for planning the data management evolution. Contribution in the development activities for the evolution of the service and improvement of its monitoring.

Required skills for this position include excellent software development and debugging skills with distributed systems in C++ and Python. Advanced linux system administration skills for storage and/or networking subsystems. In-depth knowledge of database development and optimisation skills (e.g. MySQL or similar systems). In addition knowledge of the physics processing workflow and data management tools would be an advantage.

Member of the Streaming and Analytics Services section in the Database services group.

Main tasks:

• System administration of "big data technologies" infrastructure (Apache Hadoop: YARN, HDFS, HBase, Spark, Kafka, Jupyter Notebooks) through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to mission-critical production systems.
• Configuration and support of big data platforms: architecture, evolution, migration, upgrades and patches, including monitoring of system health and performance, to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security.
• Consultancy, assistance and advice to end users, including model schema, analytics and big data pipeline design.
• Sharing domain and technical expertise, providing technical mentorship and training to peers.

The successful candidate should have demonstrated experience in following fields:

• Operation of large scale production big data environments.
• Technical and troubleshooting skills with Hadoop components, specially of big data stores such as Apache HBase or equivalent.
• Devops operations (Linux systems) experience in an Agile development environment - Exposure to puppet configuration management or equivalent.
• Performance tuning, optimization, replication techniques, clustering, partitioning and security issues.

The candidate will join the PDS (Physics Data Services) section, contributing to the service development, deployment and operations activities of the Storage (ST) group. He/She will participate to the core service development of EOS, the CERN large-scale distributed storage system, including further automation of the system and support of the physics community at CERN, and in the World-Wide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG).

Main Tasks:

• Contribute to the core development and further automation of the CERN storage systems.
• Participate to the development and improvement of the EOS distributed key-value namespace.
• Participate in the support effort provided by the group (user support and incident response) for the storage services including the participation to on-call duties.
• Participate in the service operation and deployment of the large scale storage services provided by the group

 
Required Experience and Competencies:

• Extended programming experience in in C/C++, python and shell scripting
• Concrete experience with the development or deployment or operation of long-running system level services
• Practical experience with development, testing, debugging or supporting distributed systems
• Participate in the service operation and deployment of the large scale storage services provided by the group

In the context of the MALT project, we are opening a short-term internal mobility opportunity in the MALT mail team, considered of strategic importance to the department:

• The motivation for this is the reinforcement of the mail team to achieve the goal of building an open source mail service that fits the organization requirements in terms of size and functionality, to deploy it in production including user migration, and that fulfils all IT standards to be considered a fully operational production service.
• Eligibility: CERN Staff in the IT department

You will work in the mail team to replace the present Microsoft based mail infrastructure by an open source based solution. The mail service Provides Electronic Mail Services to all CERN Users 18k users, 40k mailboxes and 60TB of data). Service includes sending and receiving mails, storing them with safe backup/restore procedures, filtering spam and viruses, providing access to mailboxes using standard mail protocols and a Web interface, support mail clients configuration connection to set up the parameters, personal mailboxes for sending and receiving mail, personal and group calendars.

• Contributing to the design, implementation, testing and deployment in production of mail services based on Open-Source solutions
• Participating to the phase-out of the present mail infrastructure and its replacement
• Ensuring the proper integration of these services within IT’s service infrastructure(e.g.  Puppet-based Agile Infrastructure and DevOps tools)
• Being responsible for change management in the mail service and towards the users: identifying dependencies and operational risks, breaking big changes down to smaller iterative steps and automating how they are managed, communicate and lead the users into the new service.
• Producing procedures and documentation following the ITIL recommendations to be used by technicians and engineers in operational activities.
• Interfacing with users to understand requirements, supporting them in early pilot deployments, and helping them in the migration.

Required skills include:

• Experience in designing and running services using CERN IT tools (Puppet, Openstack, Openshift)
• In-depth and hands-on experience in the development, deployment and maintenance of highly-available, clustered distributed computing infrastructures based on open-source packages.
• Experience in the management and operation of scalable, Linux-based, multi-tier web and back-end services.
• Proven experience in the field of complex systems integration involving legacy systems.

Additional experience in one or more of the following areas would be an asset:

• Good knowledge of SQL, database systems, and their integration with Java/Python based applications.

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Windows DevOps Engineer (IT-CDA-AD)

There are 10000 managed Windows end-user devices at CERN. 8500 of them are centrally-managed by the Applications & Devices Section, some using security-hardened configurations. 1500 are managed locally by engineers in CERN Experiments and control systems. In addition, an estimated number of 2000 Windows devices are self-managed individually by their users.

In the future, the number of strongly-managed devices will decrease and support for self-managed devices will expand. In line with this, Applications & Devices Section is currently developing CERN Appstore, which will combine a web-based catalogue of recommended applications with a community-supported package manager such as Chocolatey and a reporting capability.

As Windows DevOps Engineer, you will:

• Share responsibility for the centrally-managed Windows device park: its stability, security and evolution,
• Provide configurations for and advise local administrators,
• Develop and communicate strategy for end-user device support,
• Leverage CERN Appstore for users of self-managed devices, drive its evolution and promote adoption,
• Manage Windows OS lifecycle,
• Manage application lifecycle for commercial applications (analyse use cases, identify tools, automate installation, provide user support, manage migrations and decommissioning),
• Develop Windows Toolkit for self-service administration of the Windows park.

The required experience for this post is:

• Knowledge of programming techniques and languages: C#, PowerShell, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL.
• Administration of computing systems: Windows
• Knowledge of operating systems: Windows, macOS, iOS, Android and Linux;
• Knowledge of system configuration tools: SCCM, Intune, Puppet or Ansible

As a member of the Telecom and Radio (TR) Section in the CS Group, you will participate in the development, operation and evolution of CERN’s VoIP (Voice-over-IP) telephony infrastructure and services, and in particular by:

• Contributing to the design, development, integration and maintenance of telephony services based on Open-Source solutions (Asterisk/Kamailio).
• Participating to the phase-out of CERN’s legacy analogue and ISDN telephony infrastructure and its replacement by state-of-the-art, SIP-based mobile and desktop softphone applications.
• Leading the development and deployment of call centre applications for CERN’s control and service centres.
• Ensuring the proper integration of these services within the CERN’s Puppet-based Agile Infrastructure and DevOps tools.
• Participating to daily service management, which includes building and deployment of software packages, performance and availability monitoring, fault analysis and correction, as well as providing engineering-level support.
• Producing procedures and documentation following the ITIL recommendations to be used by technicians and engineers in operational activities.

Required skills include:

• In-depth and hands-on experience in the development, deployment and maintenance of highly-available, clustered distributed computing infrastructures based on open-source packages.
• Experience in the management and operation of scalable, Linux-based, multi-tier web and back-end services.
• Proven experience in the field of complex systems integration involving legacy systems.
• Experience deploying services within cloud-native virtualised environments.
• Good knowledge of SQL, database systems, and their integration with Java/Python based applications.

Additional experience in one or more of the following areas would be an asset:

• Experience in the development and operation of VoIP services using Asterisk, Kamailio, FreeSwitch or OpenSIPS.
• Experience in the management and operation of legacy VoIP systems (such as Alcatel OmniPCX).
• Experience in application testing, deployment and debugging on mobile Android/iOS environments.
• Experience in the design and operation of complex IP-based networks.

Software Developer in the SC group, RD (Research and Development) section with a background in the use of accelerators (GPUs/FPGAs), working in close collaboration with the LHC experiments and other teams on solving the HL-LHC challenge.

Key responsibilities:

• Software development for the cross-community computing projects
• Research and development of the effective use of computing accelerators
• Development of concepts to improve the portability and sustainability of HEP code
• Contribution to training and dissemination activities in these areas

The main tasks will be:

• Contribute to cross-community development projects. In these projects the team collaborates with the core development teams of the large scientific software packages to improve their performance and adapt them to the changes in the computing infrastructure
• Evaluate and apply libraries and frameworks for the abstraction of hardware accelerators. The basis of these studies will be the work with components of the HEP software stack such as GEANT or event generator code.
• Help the community in the process to make efficient use of modern HPC systems. The focus will be to develop strategies based on practical experience.
• HEP code has a very long lifetime and the code contains contributions of hundred scientists, with many of them being no longer part of the community. Based on your work with these codes you will suggest approaches and methodologies to improve portability and sustainability.
• Prepare training and information material related to your field of expertise and actively communicate the results of your work.
• Actively build collaborative relationships with the developer and user communities of HEP software at CERN, by participating in workshops, conferences and informal exchange of information

Required skills include:

• Software development
• In-depth experience with modern C++ in the Linux/UNIX environment
• Significant development of code that uses accelerators, either GPUs or FPGAs
• Experience in refactoring/porting of a large code base (>100k sloc)
• Some familiarity with components of the HEP software stack (or experience in supporting scientific software in an HPC environment)
• Experience with accelerator abstraction frameworks like Alpaka, Kokos, oneApi, SYCL, OpenCL, OpenMP…

We are looking for a person who can build, or already has, strong relationships with software developers throughout the LHC community.

Being a “Technology Evangelist” would be an asset ;-) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_evangelist)

As a software engineer in the CS Group, CT section you will participate in the design, development and maintenance of the software suite used to model, configure, support and manage the CERN networks and telecom infrastructures. Notably :

• Maintain and further develop the IT/CS Web interfaces used by all CERN users to request network/telephony changes.
• Together with the other members of the team, participate in the design and development of new modules for the internal IT/CS network and telecom management framework, such as network and IP telephony automation/provisioning.
• Promote and develop DevOps processes and tools to further increase the automation and the quality of the produced software.
• Mentor junior developers.
• Propose and implement changes in our database model and network APIs in order to support service integration solutions in the CERN data centres.
• Stay up to date on latest software technology trends.

The candidate should have demonstrated practical experience in several of the following areas:

• Development and maintenance of large software packages in Java.
• Use of modern Web front-end technologies (JavaScript, Angular and/or React, HTML5, CSS, REST, etc…) and experience in user-experience concepts and design principles.
• Software development life cycle: unit testing, continuous integration, version control.
• Database design and working knowledge of SQL.

Experience in one or more of the following would be an asset:

• Services deployment within cloud-native environments (Docker / Kubernetes).
• Understanding of network concepts (TCP/IP addressing) and protocols (DNS, DHCP, etc…).

As a software engineer in the CS group, TR section, you will participate in developing and delivering new VoIP (Voice-over-IP) solutions for mobile and desktop devices, and notably:

• Contributing to the design, development, deployment and maintenance of mobile and desktop softphone client applications and back-end services, interfacing them with CERN’s Asterisk-based fixed telephony services.
• Ensuring proper integration with the CERN’s Puppet-based Agile Infrastructure and DevOps tools. 
• Participating in daily service management: building and deployment of software packages, performance and availability monitoring, engineering-level support and computing security.
• Producing procedures and documentation following ITIL recommendations.

The candidate should have demonstrated practical experience in several of the following areas:

• In-depth experience developing large web-based, end-user application packages on Windows, Linux and macOS using Python, JavaScript, Java, CSS, HTML, shell scripting.
• Extensive experience developing scalable, Linux-based, multi-tier web and back-end services using REST-based API’s/microservices; frameworks like Flask, Spring Boot, React, Electron; libraries including Redux, Node Keytar, Jest, Pytest.
• Demonstrated experience in the software development life cycle: unit testing, continuous integration, version control.
• Good knowledge of SQL, database systems, and their integration with Python/Java based applications.

Experience in one or more of the following would be an asset:

• Experience in the development of VoIP client and back-end applications and/or in deploying VoIP services (Asterisk, Kamailio).
• Experience in application testing, deployment and debugging on mobile Android/iOS environments.
• Experience in mobile Android/iOS development tools and frameworks (Android Studio, XCode) as well as programming languages and libraries (Java, Objective-C, Swift).
• Experience deploying services within cloud-native environments (Kubernetes / OpenShift).

As a Database Engineer in the Database Services (DB) Group, your main activities will consist of:

• Database administration of MySQL, PostgreSQL and InfluxDB databases through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to mission-critical production systems.
• Database administration of other database technologies of interest for the High Energy Physics community.
• Configuration and support of database platforms: architecture, evolution, migration, upgrades and patches, including monitoring of system health and performance, to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security.
• Consultancy, assistance and advice to end users as well as database design help.
• Sharing domain and technical expertise, providing technical mentorship and cross-training to peers.

The successful candidate should have demonstrated experience in following fields:

• Operation of large scale production database environments.
• Technical and troubleshooting skills with relational and non-relational databases: at least two out of PostgreSQL, MySQL and InfluxDB.
• Performance tuning, query optimisation, replication techniques, clustering, partitioning and security issues.
• Database backups, restores and recovery.
• Knowledge and experience in Open Source database solutions.
• SQL development with ability to write and troubleshoot SQL code (stored procedures, functions, tables, indexes, constraints).

Additional experience in following fields would be an asset:

• Knowledge of High Availability and Disaster Recovery for PostgreSQL and MySQL.
• Database operations experience in an Agile development environment - Exposure to puppet configuration management.
• Experience with containers.

The candidate will join the WLCG Operations and Experiment Liaison team of the SC group. The position is in the OPS section, which coordinates WLCG operations and contributes to WLCG infrastructure optimization and an effective infrastructure integration with the computing systems of the LHC experiments.

The main tasks will be:

• Software development of the cross-experiment computing projects driven by the section.  Among ongoing projects are: evolution of the WLCG  Information System,  the framework that simplifies the deployment and management of distributed services and the development of tools and services that provide operational intelligence;
• WLCG Operations Coordination, participation in the WLCG Task Forces and Working Groups
• Liaison role between LHC experiments, the WLCG project and the CERN IT department. It requires to ensure effective two-way communication, covering information about LHC computing activities, plans, priorities and needs, cross-experiment projects, as well as information related to WLCG operations and service evolution, reporting back to WLCG management;

Required skills include:

Software development

• In-depth experience in object-oriented software design in the Linux environment with Python
• Design, development and deployment of web applications. Experience with the Django framework would be an asset.

Configuration management and deployment

• Configuration management systems: eg Puppet and/or Ansible
• Use of cloud computing platforms: eg OpenStack
• Use of systems for container-based application deployment: eg Kubernetes and/or Docker Swarm

Monitoring of large-scale distributed systems, data analytics and machine learning

• Data handling: Hadoop, Spark, ElasticSearch, LogStash, InfluxDB
• Data visualization:  Grafana , Kibana

The position is to work in the Operations team, whose primary responsibility is the planning and coordination of the data centre infrastructure.

The main activities are:

• Participation in the infrastructure (electrical, cooling, rack-space, floor-space) capacity planning of the computing rooms;
• Preparation and administration of the commissioning, decommissioning and moves of large batches of IT equipment (servers, storage, network devices) in the computing rooms;
• Supervision of the contractors performing the electrical, mechanical, cabling and equipment handling works;
• Liaison with CERN engineering and technical departments for the infrastructure of the computing rooms;
• Develop and maintain procedures and tools for assuring an up-to-date inventory of deployed assets;
• Maintain statistics of performed interventions and used resources and produce reports to management hierarchy;
• Manage access control requests to the computing rooms;
• Provide and maintain procedures related to the data centre operation for 24/7 operators.

 The following experience and competences should be provided:

• Installation, operation and maintenance (preventive and corrective) of computing systems
• Knowledge and deployment of computing hardware in data centres
• Organisation, planning and control of data centre infrastructure
• Use of office software package or similar tools

The candidates will join the service development, deployment and operation (DevOps) activities of the Storage (ST) group.

One position is in the GSS (General Storage Services) section, for operation and service management of end-user storage backends (AFS, EOS, CEPH, ...). The position will initially focus on AFS service management.

And another position on the PDS (Physics Data Storage) section, to contribute to the service operation and development of EOS, the CERN large-scale distributed storage system, including further automation of the system and support of the physics community at CERN, and in the World-Wide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG).

The main tasks will be:

• Participate in the service operation and deployment of the large scale storage services provided by the group 
• Contribute to the development and further automation of the CERN storage systems.
• Participate in the support effort provided by the group (user support and incident response) for the storage services including the participation to on- call duties.
• Contribute to the documentation of storage systems developed by the group (including deployment guides and end user documentation) together with other members of the section.

Required skills include:

• Experience in system administration and software design on Linux. Programming experience in in C++, python and shell scripting
• Concrete experience with the development or  deployment or operation of long-running system level services 
• Practical experience with development, testing, debugging or supporting distributed systems

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.

Database Engineer (IT-DB-SAS)

Member of the Streaming and Analytics Services section in the Database services group.

Main tasks:

• Service Manager for Hadoop, HDFS and HBase
• Administration and operation of Hadoop components and production scalable databases (HBase), from development to mission-critical production systems.
• Configuration and support of big data platforms: architecture, evolution, migration, upgrades and patches, including monitoring of system health and performance.
• Consultancy, assistance and advice to end users, including data architecture and data pipelines design.

The following experience and competences should be provided:

• Operation of large-scale production big data platforms.
• Technical and troubleshooting skills with Hadoop components.
• Performance tuning, data engineering, replication techniques, partitioning and security issues.
• Practical experience with programming in Java and Python
• Practical experience with distributed computing frameworks for big data such as Apache Spark.

Printing Services Manager

Main Tasks:

• Investigate new technologies to ensure the evolution and implementation of CERN printing services in line with the end user device strategy;
• Ensure technical supervision and monitor service delivery of two underlying service contracts and oversee operations of the CERN Print Shop;
• Operate and ensure the evolution of the underlying server infrastructure, currently based on Microsoft Windows Server 2016;
• Implement end-user device configuration tools, currently based on Microsoft .Net;
• Coordinate the external suppliers and act as technical contact for the various contracts;
• Select and test new print device hardware as required
• Deploy printer drivers for Windows, Linux and macOS and enable printing from Android and iOS devices (currently mail to print);
• Implement print device security in cooperation with CERN Computer Security and Printer Support teams;
• Promote standardisation across all printing services, in particular as materials expert for the Organization;
• Oversee recharging of services/consumables and manage budgets;
• Manage external printing contracts and re-tender as required.

Required Experience and Competencies

• Experience and aptitude for user support in a diverse environment;
• Experience in programming and server infrastructure administration.
• Service management and Customer Relationship management;
• Development, review and plan evolution of computing infrastructure for printing;
• Administration of computing systems: good understanding of printing infrastructures and client print interfaces, knowledge of Windows Server;
• Knowledge of programming techniques and languages: at least one of the following: C#, Java, Python.

Computing Engineer (IT-DB-DBR)

Member of the Relational Database section in the Database services group.

Main tasks:

• Database administration of production databases (Oracle RAC, MySQL and PostgreSQL), from development to mission-critical production systems.
• Configuration and support of database platforms: architecture, evolution, migration, upgrades and patches, including monitoring of system health and performance.
• Consultancy, assistance and advice to end users, including database design.
• Development of software modules following IT-DB guidelines and project’s needs.

The following experience and competences should be provided:

• Operation of large-scale production database environments.
• Technical and troubleshooting skills with relational Oracle databases.
• Performance tuning, query optimization, replication techniques, clustering, partitioning and security issues.
• Backups, restores, recovery.

Computing Engineer (IT-CF-SM)

Member of the Service Management section in the Computing Facilities group.

Main tasks:

• Be involved in Quality Management and Continual Improvement of services provided by the IT department
• Assure that adequate documentation and training is created and maintained for the different players in the service delivery process
• Provide support to users of the ITSM tool (ServiceNow)
• Take active part in technical evaluations and in the development of tools used for all Service Management activities 

The following experience and competences should be provided:

• Good communication skills and the ability to act with tact and discretion
• Knowledge of service management and ITIL principles
• Good knowledge of relational database technology
• Knowledge of programming techniques and languages
• Familiarity with user and service support
• Experience with team work and collaborations
• Proficient knowledge of English is required
• Knowledge of French is desirable

Computing Engineer (IT-CDA-WF)

As a Computing Engineer in the Web Frameworks section, your primary responsibilities will be to:

• Capture user needs and constraints, and perform functional analyses,
• Developing, integrating and configuring systems, such as OpenShift/OKD and Kubernetes
• Driving continuous improvement of existing systems and applications in close collaboration with users and external partners/suppliers. 
• Providing user and system/application support.
• Defining an appropriate documentation strategy and ensuring appropriate documentation exists throughout the lifecycle of the systems and services. 

You will also contribute to:

• Managing the container based Web frameworks infrastructure including software development tools such as Gitlab and JIRA
• Managing security of IT systems and applications.

Required skills include:

• Experience in web and software development,
• Experience in working with container and orchestration technologies such as Docker, OpenShift/OKD and Kubernetes.
• Capacity management, change management, continuity and availability management of software applications.
• Identification and selection of relevant emerging ICT technologies
   

Contact person: Andreas Wagner

Audio-visual technician (IT-CDA-IC)

As an audio-visual technician in the CERN conference rooms service, you will, alongside the person in charge of the service:

• Ensure that the equipment in the conference and meeting rooms is standardised (customer relations, project management, selection, ordering, installation and testing of equipment: projectors, LCD screens, video/audioconference facilities, public address systems, interpreting systems, etc.).
• Supervise and sometimes undertake the maintenance of the conference and meeting rooms (planning and ordering equipment, monitoring the work of the support team, which comprises six persons).
• Supervise and sometimes undertake the operation of the conference and meeting rooms (preparation of rooms, technical support for users, monitoring the work of the support team).
• Supervise and sometimes undertake the response to requests for audio-visual support and customer relations for event management, in particular VIP visits.
• Supervise and sometimes undertake the installation of temporary mobile public address systems and projection systems for special events.
• Programme and update the Extron and Crestron equipment controllers.
• Collaborate actively with the webcast, recording and videoconferencing services.

Required skills include

• In-depth knowledge of audio equipment and techniques
• In-depth knowledge of audio-visual and conference room equipment.
• Working knowledge of videoconferencing systems.
• Knowledge of acoustic simulation software
• Knowledge of simultaneous interpreting systems.
• Knowledge of multi-camera video mixers.
• Practical knowledge of programming Extron and Crestron automated controllers.
• Basic knowledge of AutoCAD or similar software

Duration: 5 years

Contact person: Thomas Baron

Computing Engineer (IT-CF-SM)

Leader of the Service Management section in the Computing Facilities group.

Main tasks:

• Act as a central point of coordination of Service Management activities in the IT department.
• Take operational responsibility for the CERN Service Management tool (currently ServiceNow). This involves close attention to performance, integrations with other CERN systems, capacity handling, etc.
• Take the leading role for coordinating the collaboration with the SMB department concerning the development and evolution of the SM tool. Many important aspects like maintainability, security, data privacy, performance, etc. have to be taken into account.
• Supervision of a section of 5 people, which in addition to the Service Management role is also responsible for the coordination and technical management of two important IT contracts:
  • IT 2nd line support 
  • IT Operators

The following experience and competences should be provided:

• Good communication skills and the ability to negotiate in difficult circumstances
• Supervisory experience
• Good knowledge of service management and ITIL principles
• Good knowledge of Service Now
• Good leadership and decision making ability

Computing Engineer (ST-AD, Analysis and Design)

As part of the storage development team in the ST-AD section the candidate will contribute to the design, development and  optimisation of large scale data transfer and data storage solutions for the physics community at CERN and the World-Wide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG). The main tasks will be:

• Develop the data transfer system implementation for CERN and WLCG experiments.
• Support the data transfer services (user support and incident response) including the participation of on- call duties.
• Maintain/improve service documentation (procedures, regular reports, incident analysis and user documentation) together with other members of the AD section.
• Contribute actively to the evolution of the CERN data management services (service evolution, service or data migration).

Required skills include:

• In-depth experience in Object-oriented software design on Linux and implementation in C++
• Practical experience with development, testing and debugging of distributed systems
• Practical experience with scripting in Python

These additional skills would be an asset:

• Distributed trust systems and public key infrastructures
• Current networking and storage technologies such as software defined networking and distributed/cloud storage systems
• Database development (with MySQL or similar)
• Cluster-wide configuration and deployment tools such as Puppet, Docker/Kubernetes

ATLAS Experiment Liaison in the WLCG Operations Coordination and Experiment Liaison Team of the IT-DI-LCG Section

Liaison role between ATLAS Computing and WLCG project and CERN IT implies:

• Ensuring effective two-way communication, covering information about ATLAS technical activities, plans, priorities and needs, cross-experiment computing activities and projects, as well as information related to WLCG operations and service evolution, reporting back to WLCG management;
• Encouraging and initiating common cross-experiment projects and activities. Raising awareness of the impact and costs of experiment specific choices vs. common solutions, including impact on the infrastructure. Promoting common approaches to the adoption of new technologies;
• Contributing to the experiment and WLCG operations and projects, in particular, those which require integration of the experiment frameworks with the WLCG and CERN IT services.

Liaison role requires WLCG expertise ideally combined with knowledge of ATLAS computing system as well as good interpersonal and communication skills.

Technical Manager of the CERN School of Computing (CSC)

The job of the CSC Technical Manager is to:

• Prepare and maintain the environment for the hands-on exercises - including VM images, physical machines at CERN, firewall openings, web server etc.
• In coordination with the local organisers, ensure that the network and the necessary equipment are available at school premises (lecture and exercise rooms, secretariat, accommodation etc.)
• Provide tools for, and perform or contribute to various important tasks, such as generating the booklet, preparing the exam, checking exam results, and producing feedback report.
• Maintain CSC computing infrastructure (website, storage space) and preserve data repositories of past schools (e.g. alumni database and photo archive).
• Contribute to the general organisation of the Schools, and organise certain social or sport activities

There are three schools organized every year: the inverted CSC in March at CERN (3-4 days), as well as the two schools outside of CERN: the Thematic CSC in May/June (one week), and the main CSC in September (two weeks) - held in a different country every year.

This position requires being physically present during the three schools per year (including the two remote ones), and additional 1-2 short travels per year to prepare future schools.

If you are computer engineer proficient with various technologies and happy to learn others; can travel a few times per year (for the two schools organized outside of CERN, and in addition 1-2 short travels to prepare future schools) and work outside of your office; and are happy to meet new people and get involved also in the social and sports aspects of the schools, then we hope to hear from you!

Please do not hesitate to contact Sebastian Lopienski (school director), Joelma Tolomeo (the administrative manager) or Nikos Kasioumis (the technical manager) to learn more about this position.

This opportunity does not necessarily imply a change of group.

Telecom/Software Engineer in the IT-CS group, for the operation, maintenance and development of telecommunication services, in particular IP telephony. As a member of a team of network and telecom engineers, you will contribute to the:

• deployment, operation and maintenance of IP telephony and unified communication services based on commercial/public domain software packages;
• operation and development of the CERN PBX networks including advanced services such as call centres and least cost routing;
• design and deployment of new telecommunication projects related to fixed telephony, mobile services, and radio services; and
• production of associated documentation and procedures.

The experience required for this post is:

• Demonstrated experience in the field of VoIP technologies.
• Demonstrated experience in the field of complex systems integration.
• Experience in services’ maintenance and operation.

Computing Engineer (Grade 6 or 7) in the IT department, DI group. You will be part of the CERN Computer Security Team (https://cern.ch/security), which is mandated to secure and protect all aspects of the computing infrastructure of CERN as well as its operations and reputation against any kind of cyber-threats, and take over an active role in managing, maintaining, and improving CERN’s Security Operations Centre (SOC). You will be involved in:

• Improving the SOC currently running on CERN’s IT department’s central computing facilities (e.g. Elastic Search, HDFS, Kafka, Flume, Puppet, CentOS, etc.), adding further sources of security-relevant data, and programming interfaces automatically informing end-users of potential security problems;
• Contribute and manage a series of computer security projects (e.g. Windows AV/EDR/hardening, firewall appliances, SPAM & malware filtering, control system & IoT security, storage of secrets) relevant for a better protection of the Organization as well as providing advice and consultancy in matters of computer security;
• Participate in the CERN CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) and autonomously and independently handle computer security incidents as well as provide forensics capabilities within CERN but also happening at remote sites associated with the so-called Worldwide LHC computing grid, the high-energy physics community, or collaborating institutes and universities;
• Possibly supervising team members on short-term contracts.

The experience required for this post is:

• Demonstrated experience with the full-stack development of software projects, orchestration, and, service deployment, configuration management and operation;
• Profound knowledge in networking, operating systems, programming & software architecture, databases, and web architectures as well as the computer security measures to protect those;
• Proven expertise both on security operations (DFIR, threat intel) and security infrastructures design (SOC, EDR, big data solutions) as well as experience on computer, network or software security, and, preferably, as computer system administrator. Strong communication, presentation and collaboration-building skills are essential.
• Experience with user relations, user support, and user training.

Software Engineer (Grade 6) in the IT-CDA Digital Repositories (DR) Section. You will be part of the CDS (CERN Document Server) team. CDS is CERN’s institutional repository where all research output and other related objects (articles, videos, photos, audio, etc) are archived, preserved and disseminated. You will be involved in:

• The development of new modules and functionalities for the CERN Document Server as well as contributing to the Invenio Digital Library Framework.
• DevOps activities - the configuration, deployment and maintenance activities of the CDS service.
• Providing support to CDS users and sharing expertise with the Invenio developer community.
• The management of code contributions following an Open Source development model.
• Possibly supervising team members on short-term contracts.

The experience required for this post is:

• Demonstrated experience with the full-stack development of large software projects, preferably for the web, involving design and development of user interfaces, web application back-ends, front-ends and database schema management.
• Experience with user relations, user support, user training and user requirements definition.
• Experience in service deployment, configuration management and operation.

Technical engineer (Grade 5) position in the IT-ST-FDO section; FDO supports most of the storage services in the IT department: EOS is at the centre of physics computing (notably LHC data taking) and Ceph provides the backbone of the IT cloud and support for mission-critical services (e.g. S3, Puppet ). 

The successful applicant should manage critical components of our service and contribute to their evolution with tools and documentation. The position requires experience in the following areas:

• Linux system administration (Red Hat or Centos in particular) 
• DevOps-style operations (most notably Configuration Management and Infrastructure Automation) for large storage services 
• Diagnostic and optimisation Linux file-systems  (XFS and/or ZFS) 
• Troubleshooting  anomalies of complex C++ applications (gdb, network tools, …)
• Nodes management, most notably proactive management of critical situations that impact user activities 

Out-of-working-hours interventions to respond to critical tickets may be necessary by FDO section members.

The initial assignments would be:

• EOS service tasks (software upgrades, configuration)
• AFS replacement project, notably preparing, using and supporting data transfer tools and metadata (ACL) checking procedures.

Software engineer

The Service Management section within the IT Computing Facilities group provides support and tools for adoption and usage of ITIL best practices for the management of all services the department offers. The successful candidate will take a leading role for the operation and maintenance of the CERN ITSM tool (ServiceNow). The candidate will also take technical responsibilities for the cross department collaboration (IT-SMB) concerning the evolution and future usage of the tool.

Experience and competencies

• Experience with a modern ITSM tool and a very good understanding of ITIL or similar best-practices framework for Service Management.
• Practical knowledge of a software development life-cycle concept. Extensive knowledge of scripting languages, web services, software development processes and techniques.
• Very good understanding and experience with relational database technology.
• Porting/software integration: understanding the principles of incremental and logical integration of components in order to create operational services.
• Testing: understanding of the concurrent lifecycle process of engineering in order to measure and improve quality of software.
• Familiarity with User and service support.
• Experience with team work and collaborations.

Computing engineer 

The Linux and Configuration Services section within the IT Computing and Monitoring group provides Linux operating engineering and tools for over 50,000 servers across CERN. The team is looking for an experienced computing engineer to maintain and evolve the operating system services and tools for Linux based systems across a wide range of uses and technologies. Furthermore, the successful candidate will collaborate with upstream open source communities to enhance these solutions to meet CERN's needs, tracking issues and supporting the delivery of these improvements for CERN's user communities.

Responsibilities

• Advice and solution design for Linux users to address their needs using common solutions;
• Contribute enhancements to CERN tools such as installation services and open source communities such as CentOS including special interest groups, adapting these solutions to the CERN environment in a sustainable way;
• Coordinate of major deployments such as new releases of software and operating systems in close collaboration with other IT groups, departments and physics experiments at CERN;
• Define, document and implement automation and procedures following the ITIL recommendations;
• Take part in the support and development of the services in the section including configuration management solutions, installation services, Elasticsearch, load balancing and Interactive Logon Services.

Expertise

• Detailed knowledge of Linux operating systems
• Performance analysis, tuning and automation of Linux services
• Management of large scale Linux server deployments in a complex environment of virtual and physical resources
• Proven track record of open source collaboration and contribution
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python and large scale deployment using configuration system solutions such as Puppet
• Knowledge of networking protocols, cloud technologies, Linux kernel development, embedded Linux and/or Linux device driver experience are a plus

Computing technical engineer

The Facility Planning and Procurement (FPP) section is looking for an experienced computing technical engineer who will be given responsibility for installation, testing and hardware support of servers and storage system equipment in the CERN data centers. The function may also include providing hardware support to experiments and other departments using similar equipment. In particular, the successful candidate will run the technical acceptance testing process on IT servers and storage as well as proceed with the subsequent allocation to services; monitor the correct functioning of equipment, following up on hardware incidents and investigate hardware technology problems, enhancing part of the management and monitoring system; contribute to the section's software developments for the automation of the technical acceptance process and its integration with Openstack Ironic; provide support on hardware related incidents and follow up with contractor and manufacturers as appropriate; perform a regular market watch and meet with major ICT companies to follow market developments and new trends in the area of IT servers and storage technologies and evaluate their relevance to CERN.

Responsibilities:

• Share responsibility for commissioning of new systems and decommissioning of the legacy ones;
• Provide technical support on computing equipment procured by IT-CF;
• Maintain regular contacts with end-users in LHC experiments and other collaborations;
• Contribute to the section’s software developments related to the hardware lifecycle management and monitoring.

Experience:

• Demonstrated experience with server hardware (BIOS/UEFI, x86 processor architecture and virtualization, memory, GPU computing, IPMI, SMART, SNMP), interconnect (Ethernet, Infiniband) and types of storage drives (S-ATA, SAS, NVMe);
• Demonstrated experience with Linux, knowledge of Windows server family is an asset;
• Demonstrated experience with Python programming language

Computing Engineer

IT/CF is looking for an experienced computing engineer to join our data centre operations team to work on the data centre infrastructure management (DCIM). The efficient management of our rack-level electrical distribution and cooling infrastructure is crucial for meeting the demanding needs of LHC and in particular for the preparation of a huge capacity increase anticipated for Run 3 (2021).

To that end we are looking for a skilled software developer and architect, ideally with some experience from telemetry and control of large computing hardware infrastructure and rack level power distribution devices, to review the existing tools/automation and propose a functional overview of a new approach.

In a second phase the successful candidate shall also investigate, together with Openstack experts in IT-CM, the possibility of automating workload placement with respect to electrical power availability, e.g. geographical zones where significant amount of persistent stranded power has been detected. In parallel to this project a technology review of commercial DCIM solutions shall be performed, including testing of the more promising products, with respect to our existing infrastructure limitations and needs and produce a detailed report on how to proceed based on evolution of the existing tools and/or integration of a commercial DCIM system. The successful candidate will then perform the definition, implementation, testing and maintenance of the specific controls and monitoring infrastructure (whether home-grown or commercial) of the data centres. In addition, he/she shall develop quality assurance and device management methods and procedures to improve the overall efficiency of running the data centres.

The ideal candidate shall be able to work independently through deep dives and expert analyses.

Responsibilities:

-        Architecture and management of complex monitoring and orchestration systems

-        Coordination with service managers and related software projects in the department

-        Development of tools and systems working closely with data centre operation team as well as groups responsibility for facility monitoring and building management system

-        Together with other members of the operations team, develop (or purchase) a graphical real-time electrical power and environmental (temperature) map of the data centre allowing for individual device (e.g. power supply) granularity

-        Support data centre controls and monitoring applications including device (e.g. PDU) management

-        Own the problem management process following rack or row level power incidents

Experience:

-        At least two years of software development of monitoring or orchestration systems

-        Advanced experience with Linux operating system, shell scripting and Python programming language

-        Working experience with agile software development processes and tools, e.g. Scrum, Gitlab, Jira, Jenkins

-        Working experience with container-based technologies, orchestration and platforms (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift) is a plus.

-        Experience with IPMI, SNMP, Modbus, etc. device communication protocols is an asset

As a Network and Telecom Deployment Technician in the IT-CS-DO section, you will be responsible for installing and operating networking and telecom services for various user groups at CERN. As an autonomous and active member of a team, you will work in collaboration with engineers and other specialist technicians, assuming notably the following functions:

• Installation and configuration of diverse communications systems (routers, switches, mobile telephone repeaters)
• Planning and coordination of sub-contracted cabling work, assuring that operational and safety procedures are respected
• Interpreting user needs, proposing and implementing suitable solutions in line with CERN standards
• Documentation of implemented solutions and participation in the streamlining of operational procedures
• Acting as part of the support chain for communication problems

Should you be interested in the position, please contact Gyorgy Balazs.

As a member of the team in charge of Real Time Communication services (webcast, lecture recording, videoconference and IP telephony frontend) you will:

• Develop and maintain the tools and interfaces that are needed for these services (web sites, encoding, transcoding, workflow automation, dashboards, as well as desktop, web and mobile clients)
• Ensure proper integration of these service in CERN conference and meeting rooms and with the global CERN collaboration environment (through the Indico event management software)
• Support the externalised operations team in their daily work
• Deploy, configure and operate the services for exceptional events
• Ensure that the best tools are selected for the provisioning, operation and monitoring of these services
• Provide high-level user support for these services
• Handle specific RTC projects requested by CERN user communities (requirements establishment, design and implementation)
• Act as backup of the RTC service manager during absences

Should you be interested in the position, please contact Thomas Baron.

ARCHIVER technical coordinator

CERN IT will lead a recently approved Horizon 2020 project, called ARCHIVER, that will combine multiple ICT technologies in a hybrid cloud environment spanning on-premise and commercial cloud services to deliver end-to-end archival and preservation services covering the full research lifecycle.

ARCHIVER involves a consortium of 6 partners (CERN, DESY, EMBL, IFAE, Addestino, TRUST-IT), with a budget of approximately 5M euros.

The project, which starts in January 2019, is looking for a technical coordinator to engage with the stakeholders to address the challenges that will evolve throughout the project’s lifetime. This role offers an opportunity to be part of a small project management team working with leading research organisations and commercial cloud service providers to deploy use-cases from high energy physics, life sciences and astronomy.

The skills and experience required for this 3 year full-time role include:

• Familiarity with cloud storage systems
• Knowledge of procurement processes
• Practical experience of software testing methods
• Leadership and project management including:
  • Communication (verbal, written and presenting)
  • Team management
  • Negotiation
  • Personal organization,
  • Risk management
• A lot of energy, a proactive approach, a sense of humour and a thick skin.

Frequent travel within Europe is required. The successful candidate will transfer to EFP section of DI group to become a member of the project management team and report to the project leader, João Fernandes.

Should you be interested in the position, please contact Bob Jones

IT-CF, Hardware engineer

Undertake sample evaluations in the tender process. Perform hardware problem management of systematic issues and provide support for server and storage hardware procured by the team to IT services and external stakeholders in experiments and other departments. Perform technology tracking, R&D and benchmarking of new products.

Text in French below

There is a global trend towards outsourcing computing services to third party providers via the World Wide Web. Since such “Cloud Services” can be more cost-effective than hosting those on-premises, it can be in CERN’s interest to use them. However, certain aspects of the Cloud Services' “Acceptable Use Policy” related to privacy, data protection & ownership, security need to be carefully assessed and data locality must comply with CERN’s privileges and immunities.

The Cloud Licence Office (CLO) has been established to provide guidance on the purchase and use of cloud services by members of CERN’s personnel, evaluate whether adverse conditions exist and whether the overall risks are acceptable to the Organization, and to authorize any site-wide purchase & usage of Cloud Services.

The CLO works in close contact and in cooperation with the Procurement and Industrial Services group (IPT-PI), the IT Consulting Team and the Software Licence Office (SLO). If needed it liaises with the Computer Security Officer (CSO), the Office of Data Privacy Protection (ODPP) and with the Legal Service.

The CLO operates on the basis of a Policy for Cloud Usage. As per this policy, each of the two categories below is linked with specific obligations:

• Entreprise Clouds: Require a contract with CERN following previous consultation and approval by the CLO. For this case, please collect the information and documents described in Questions to Enterprise Cloud providers before contacting the CLO.
• Public Clouds: They can be used by individuals without conclusion of a contract with the service provider if the following criteria are met: no CERN legally protected data involved, confidential data restrictions strictly adhered to with appropriate access controls, and possibility to transfer all CERN data onsite or to another account when required. The usage of public clouds is allowed provided the service is registered in the list of certified public clouds maintained by the CLO. To be added to such list a public cloud must have satisfactorily completed the CERN Self-assessment of Public Clouds.

Cloud Licence Officer: Ignacio Reguero

Deputy: Vincent Nicolas Bippus

Contact: The Cloud Licence Office is reachable via https://cern.service-now.com/service-portal/function.do?name=it-cloud-licence or “cloud-licence-officer@cern.ch”.

Cloud Licence Office Web Site: https://cloud-licence-office.web.cern.ch/

Mise en œuvre de la politique d’informatique en nuage du CERN

Il y a une tendance générale à l'externalisation des services informatiques à des fournisseurs tiers via le World Wide Web. Faire appel aux services de fournisseurs de nuages (cloud services) peut en effet s’avérer plus économique que l'hébergement sur site, ce qui peut présenter un certain intérêt pour le CERN. Toutefois, certains aspects de la « politique d'utilisation acceptable » des services en nuages liés à la confidentialité, à la protection et à la propriété des données, et à la sécurité doivent être soigneusement évalués, et la localisation des données se doit d’être conforme aux privilèges et immunités du CERN.

Le bureau des licences de services informatiques en nuages (Cloud Licence Office, CLO) a été créé pour prodiguer des conseils sur l'achat et l'utilisation des services en nuages par les membres du personnel du CERN : il évalue si certaines conditions sont défavorables et si les risques globaux sont acceptables pour l'Organisation, et autorise l’achat et l’utilisation de ces services à l’échelle de l’Organisation.

Le CLO travaille en étroite collaboration avec le groupe Achats et services industriels (IPT-PI), l'équipe de consultants en informatique et le bureau des licences logicielles (SLO). Au besoin, il assure la liaison avec le responsable de la sécurité informatique (CSO), le bureau de protection des données personnelles (ODPP) et le service juridique.

Le CLO fonctionne sur la base de la politique pour l’utilisation de l’informatique en nuage. Conformément à cette politique, chacune des deux catégories ci-dessous doit répondre à des obligations spécifiques :

• Nuages d'entreprise : ils nécessitent l’établissement d’un contrat avec le CERN à la suite d'une consultation préalable et de l'approbation du CLO. Dans ce cas, veuillez consulter les informations et les documents disponibles sur la page « Questions to Enterprise Cloud providers » (en anglais) avant de contacter le CLO.
• Nuages ​​publics : ils peuvent être utilisés sans l’établissement d'un contrat avec le fournisseur de services si les critères suivants sont respectés : les données protégées par le CERN ne sont pas concernées, les restrictions sur les données confidentielles sont strictement respectées, il y a possibilité de rapatrier toutes les données du CERN sur site ou sur un autre compte si nécessaire. L'utilisation de nuages publics est autorisée à condition que le service soit enregistré dans la liste des nuages publics certifiés par le CLO. Pour être ajouté à cette liste, un nuage public doit avoir rempli de manière satisfaisante l'auto-évaluation des nuages ​​publics au CERN (en anglais). 

Cloud Licence Officer : Ignacio Reguero

Adjoint : Vincent Nicolas Bippus

Contact : Vous pouvez contacter le Cloud Licence Office sur : https://cern.service-now.com/service-portal/function.do?name=it-cloud-licence ou en écrivant à cloud-licence-officer@cern.ch.

Site Web du Cloud Licence Office : https://cloud-licence-office.web.cern.ch/

Computing engineer (openlab), 2 year position

As a computing engineer in the CERN openlab, Information Technology (IT) Department, Database Services (DB) Group your main activities will consist of:

• Research and development of new cloud based infrastructure and platform as a service capable of hosting CERN applications.
• Collaborate with CERN openlab industry partner (Oracle), present work results in conferences, publish papers explaining your work.
• Migration of production CERN Java applications to Kubernetes (OpenStack Magnum).
• Design solutions for cloud based disaster recovery solutions for CERN applications and databases.
• Encourage adoptions of new cloud based technologies amongst CERN developers.
• Evaluate security constrains of proposed solutions.
• Study innovative approaches for Java application Cloud deployment, design and evaluate the use of external providers as means of provisioning CERN applications.
• Investigate technologies that help improve efficiency of hosting solutions.
• Share domain and technical expertise, providing technical mentorship and specific training to peers.

Computing Engineer (IT-CDA-AD)

The Applications and Devices section manages server infrastructure for over 800 servers, supports 10,000 devices such as desktops, laptops, tablets, smartphones, screens and printers and provides over 100 applications including tools for mechanical engineering, mathematics and electronic design automation, as well as general productivity applications, anti-virus and configuration management tools.

The successful applicant will:

• Ensure smooth operation and maintenance of Windows server infrastructure,
• Orchestrate service provisioning based on Openstack and Openshift,
• Contribute to redesign and evolve terminal servers, print servers, licence servers and filers including possible migration towards Open Source solutions,
• Contribute to redesign service monitoring, backup and recovery procedures,
• Provide and support commercial applications, including electronic design automation tools for FPGA design (ex.: Intel Quartus, Xilinx Vivado) and structural analysis and field calculation tools (ex. ANSYS, COMSOL, CST) and provide engineering tools for a High Performance Computing environment.

This post requires:

• Experience in Windows server administration and initial experience in system administration on Linux,
• Initial experience in deploying micro-services based on Docker.
• System software administration competency and scripting for Windows and Linux. Knowledge of PowerShell.
• Knowledge of at least one of the following: Python, C#.

Knowledge and experience in designing FPGA-based electronics will be considered an advantage.

Storage operations and support engineer (IT-ST-FDO, File and Disk Operations)

The FDO section is currently managing more than 1,500 servers with more than 60,000 disks, representing about 300 petabyte of raw storage, most notably the EOS and the Ceph services for CERN and the Worldwide LHC computing Grid (WLCG) community. 

The successful applicant should manage critical services and drive their evolution for handling future scale evolution. The position requires experience in the following areas:

• Linux system administration (Red Hat or Centos in particular) 
• DevOps-style operations (most notably Configuration Management and Infrastructure Automation) for large storage services
• Diagnostic and optimisation Linux file-systems  (XFS and/or ZFS)
• Troubleshooting  anomalies of complex C++ applications (gdb, network tools, …)
• Service management, most notably proactive management of critical situations that impact user activities

EOS is at the centre of physics computing (notably LHC data taking) and Ceph provides the backbone of the IT cloud and support for mission-critical services (e.g. Puppet, GitLab, CERNBox and others), so out-of-working-hours interventions to respond to critical tickets may be necessary by FDO section members.

IT-CDA, Audiovisual Technician

As a member of the conference room management team you will assist to:

• Standardize AV equipment in meeting and conference rooms (running refurbishment projects, contacting clients, choosing, ordering, installing and testing equipment including projectors, LCD screens, audio and video conferencing, sound systems, translation kits)
• Supervise, and sometimes perform yourself, the maintenance and operation of the conference rooms (through a 6-person outsourced contract)
• Supervise, and sometimes perform yourself, the AV support of events, especially VIP visits
• Supervise, and often perform the temporary installation of AV equipment for exceptional events
• Program and update the Extron and Crestron AV equipment controllers

IT-DB, Database engineer  

• Expert database administrator (Oracle RAC) through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to mission-critical production systems. Additional experience on different DBMS such as PostgreSQL and MySQL would be an asset.
• Configuration and support of database platforms: architecture, evolution, migration, upgrades and patches, including monitoring of system health and performance, to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security.
• Consultancy, assistance and advice to end users, including database design.
• Development of software modules following IT-DB guidelines and projects needs.
• Sharing domain and technical expertise, providing technical mentorship and training to peers.

IT-CM

Computing Engineer (IT-CM-MM, Monitoring and Messaging)

As part of the monitoring team, the candidate would be involved in designing, developing and deploying a new unified monitoring and alarms infrastructure that is progressively replacing the IT and WLCG specific solutions. This unified monitoring covers all phases of the dataflow such as collecting metric and logs, live online data streaming, large-scale analytics and comprehensive alarms. This common dataflow is based on established open source solutions such as Collectd, Kafka, Spark, ElasticSearch, InfluxDB and Grafana.

This position gives the opportunity to learn state of the art monitoring, streaming and storage technologies and their application to provide reliable and scalable monitoring solutions for CERN and the WLCG. Proven experience in software development, knowledge in the core technologies and commitment to work in an Agile development environment are important requirements for this position.

IT-ST

Storage operations and support engineer (IT-ST-FDO, File and Disk Operations)

The FDO section is currently managing more than 1,500 servers with more than 60,000 disks, representing about 300 petabyte of raw storage, most notably the EOS and the Ceph services for CERN and the Worldwide LHC computing Grid (WLCG) community. 

The successful applicant should manage critical services and drive their evolution for handling future scale evolution. The position requires experience in the following areas:

• Linux system administration (Red Hat or Centos in particular) 
• DevOps-style operations (most notably Configuration Management and Infrastructure Automation) for large storage services
• Diagnostic and optimisation Linux file-systems  (XFS and/or ZFS)
• Troubleshooting  anomalies of complex C++ applications (gdb, network tools, …)
• Service management, most notably proactive management of critical situations that impact user activities

EOS is at the centre of physics computing (notably LHC data taking) and Ceph provides the backbone of the IT cloud and support for mission-critical services (e.g. Puppet, GitLab, CERNBox and others), so out-of-working-hours interventions to respond to critical tickets may be necessary by FDO section members.

IT-ST

Computing Engineer (ST-AD, Analysis and Design)

As part of the storage development team the candidate will contribute to the design, development and  optimisation of large scale data transfer and data storage solutions for the physics community at CERN and the World-Wide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG). The task will initially include the participation in the rota for the FTS service provided by the section and an active participation in the communication with experiment and external WLCG site responsible for planning the data management evolution. The required developments will then evolve following the future priorities of the group.

Required skills include:

                • excellent software development and debugging skills with distributed systems in C++ and Python

                • Linux system level skills for the storage and/or networking subsystems

                • database development and optimisation skills eg for MySQL or similar systems

                • knowledge of the physics processing workflow and data management tools would be an advantage.  

Computing Technical Engineer / Technician (ST-TAB, Tapes Archives and Backups) 

As a part of the tape and backup teams, the successful candidate will contribute to the installation, configuration, operation, monitoring and support of CERN’s tape-based archive and backup services provided by CASTOR and IBM Spectrum Protect (formerly TSM). The role includes performing service interventions, resolve service unavailability incidents and escalating issues to developers and/or vendors. It also involves responding to user tickets and interacting with external service suppliers and support companies as necessary.

Skills required include: In-depth knowledge of storage hardware (disk arrays, RAID, Fibre channel SAN), Linux admin and device drivers, experience with Python/shell scripting and automation/monitoring tools (Puppet/Kibana).

IT-CDA

Computing Engineer (CDA-AD, Applications and Devices)

The computing engineer will maintain and develop the existing portfolio of over 100 applications, manage licences, automate installations and provide end-user support for Windows, macOS, iOS and Android. At the same time, the engineer will create software tools and deploy 3rd party management solutions in line with the CERN’s Application Management Policy.

Required competencies are:

• System administration and scripting for Windows Server, Windows 10 and macOS,
• Software development/programming in C#, VB.Net, Java, Objective-C or Swift,
• Usability evaluation and application support: provisioning, packaging, deployment and maintenance of applications according to user requirements.

In addition, this position requires experience in both web and mobile software development.

Full-stack Web Development Software Engineer (CDA-DR, Digital Repositories)

The full-stack software engineer will be working on the development of new modules and functionalities for the Invenio Digital Library Framework and related services. Such a position requires a demonstrated experience with the full-stack web development of large software projects involving design and development of user interfaces, web application back-ends, front-ends and database schema management. It is also important that the selected person has some domain expertise in Digital Repositories, Preservation, Archiving and Record management.

Technically the engineer must have the following competencies:

                * Backend development: high expertise in python programming using Flask Framework. Experience writing REST APIs and with the following technologies: RabbitMQ, Celery and Flower.

                * Front-end development: demonstrated experience with web UI technologies and toolkits such as SASS, Twitter Bootstrap and AngularJS (or similar). It is a plus to have knowledge of user experience and usability practices.

                * Database/Repository design: experience with database management systems (PostgreSQL), object-relational mapping libraries (e.g. SQLAlchemy, Alembic) as well as Elasticsearch and Redis.

                * Configuration management: building/maintaining configuration templates & parameters (OpenStack, OpenShift is a plus); and also knowledge of container-based technologies (e.g. Docker).

Note that this is an initial list established after the PoW discussions: at this stage the budgets are not confirmed yet; we are working on it. This means the posts that will be effectively opened may differ from what is announced below.

IT-CM

Configuration Management service manager: CERN IT provides a central configuration management solution which allows rapid and consistent deployment of over 34,000 virtual and physical servers. Based on the open source Puppet and Foreman software, this activity involves managing the production service, evolving the software in line with upstream developments, advising over 350 service managers on best practice and integrating with other CERN services. The position is in the IT Compute and Monitoring group, Linux and Configuration Services section which would also include regular support rota for the sections activities such as lxplus, DNS load balancing and Linux support.”

IT-CF

Server and storage procurement technical responsible: Collect technical and capacity requirements from IT management and services as well as external stakeholders from the experiments and other departments. Plan and execute market surveys, tenders and price enquiries. Maintain tender technical specifications and questionnaires and assist operations team with logistics planning. Maintain assets inventory and help with the supervision of the repair contract. Manage contact with suppliers and manufacturers.

Hardware engineer: Undertake sample evaluations in the tender process. Perform hardware problem management of systematic issues and provide support for server and storage hardware procured by the team to IT services and external stakeholders in experiments and other departments. Perform technology tracking, R&D and benchmarking of new products.

IT-DI

Technical coordination and implementation of WLCG R&D activities: WLCG is beginning a programme of R&D to prepare the computing models for HL-LHC.  There are several areas where IT should be leading the R&D activities.  These include storage federation, data management evolution, common workload management, network developments, application performance and cost models and authentication/authorisation mechanisms for future federated structures.  The role would be one of technical coordination and implementation between the various IT teams, the experiments, EP-SFT, and selected WLCG sites participating in prototyping work.

IT-DB

Database engineer

• Expert database administrator (Oracle RAC) through multiple product lifecycle environments, from development to mission-critical production systems. Additional experience on different DBMS such as PostgreSQL and MySQL would be an asset.
• Configuration and support of database platforms: architecture, evolution, migration, upgrades and patches, including monitoring of system health and performance, to ensure high levels of performance, availability, and security.
• Consultancy, assistance and advice to end users, including database design.
• Development of software modules following IT-DB guidelines and projects needs.
• Sharing domain and technical expertise, providing technical mentorship and training to peers.

Java engineer

• Manage services on a day to day basis assuring highest possible reliability, security and confidentiality. This includes development, coordination and deployment of system components, as well as monitoring performance and availability whilst ensuring computing security. Experience with modern Java web application design, tools, processes and deployments is needed.
• Drive cloud technology adoption for CERN Java  applications in public and private clouds. Study innovative approaches for deployment, design and evaluate the use of external providers as means of provisioning CERN applications.
• Perform continuous technological developments monitoring, share it with your peers and use it to identify services enhancement possibilities, and to ensure services continuity in the long-term.
• Provide support for the user community (providing third level / expert service support).  Consultancy, assistance, support and advice to developer community on topics related with efficient use of CERN Java infrastructure and integration with other IT services.

AARNet and CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) recently signed a formal agreement which establishes a framework for ongoing collaborations to develop cloud storage technologies for the benefit of scientific and education communities globally.

Both organisations share interests in enabling new and more efficient ways of collaborating to support international research endeavours, particularly around innovation for data storage, data transfer and data sharing.

For the past two years, AARNet engineers have been collaborating with the CERN IT Storage Group to test distributed deployments of large-scale storage systems. The AARNet network’s capabilities for moving huge volumes of data across Australia’s vast continent is helping to inform research for advancing networking and data services for science.

AARNet and CERN have also been collaborating to promote the creation of a community of cloud-technology adopters to share innovative solutions and operational best practices, co-organising events such as the CS3 (Cloud Services for Synchronisation and Sharing) conferences and workshops.

Under the new agreement, the organisations will work together on developing solutions, such as the AARNet CloudStor service which is building on CERN’s EOS. The CERNBox and SWAN services will also be part of this collaboration.

All these cloud-based services support the management of data storage, access and analysis for a range of users. EOS is a low latency heavy duty data storage infrastructure designed for the data deluge from Large Hadron Collider high energy physics experiments; CERNBox, is a cloud storage service meeting the unique needs of non-high-energy physics CERN users; SWAN, is a platform for performing interactive data analysis in the cloud via a web browser; and CloudStor is a data sharing and service with a wide range of research applications designed to meet the unique needs of the Australian research community.

Read more about AARNet’s collaborations with CERN

This post has been published on the AARNET website at the following url: https://news.aarnet.edu.au/aarnet-and-cern-sign-mou-for-developing-cloud-storage-technologies/

The IT department will publish soon on the CERN job portal the following Computing Engineer job:

Identity Federation Manager for the Academic Community in the Departmental Infrastructure Group, Computer Security Team (IT-DI-CSO).

With the steadily growing community of HEP institutes collaborating with CERN and contributing to joint projects (like the WLCG; cern.ch/wlcg) but also with the widening of CERN’s computing resources to other sciences (HelixNebula, e.g. CERN as a cloud service provider), the current model of providing every participant with a CERN computing account does not scale anymore. Instead, federated identities, i.e. computing accounts issued by individual universities and institutes themselves, which are subsequently permitted to access CERN’s computing resources are the best alternative currently. However, to embark on such an alternative, tight coordination of the technical implementation and related subjects like trust, vouching, security, data privacy and data dissemination (“attributes”) are necessary. Currently on-going activities in this domain are REFEDS (www.refeds.org), EduGAIN (www.geant.org/Services/Trust_identity_and_security/eduGAIN), AARC (aarc-project.eu), and Sirtfi (refeds.org/sirtfi) to name a few.

You will join

The CERN Computer Security Team (cern.ch/security), which is mandated to secure and protect all aspects of the computing infrastructure of CERN as well as its operations and reputation against any kind of cyber-threats.

Functions

As Identity Federation Manager in the IT department, you will liaise with universities, institutes and other relevant stakeholders worldwide in order to drive forward an efficient, flexible, trustworthy and secure enabling of identity federation accounts at CERN. This includes the deployment of the current policies, negotiation and implementation of new policies, and the co-ordination of any (other) aspect which enhances the trust, security, and data privacy principles within the corresponding federations. Close contact with the WLCG will also be beneficial since identity federations have strong similarities to the policy bodies governing the WLCG.

As a Service Manager, you will be in charge of the implementation and integration of the different services and tools to fulfil the practical objectives of Federation: Integration with CERN Single Sign-on, integration of multifactor tokens when available, design and implementation of a new fine-grained authorization service taking into account Federated Identities, WLCG support, etc.

As a member of the Computer Security Team, you are also supposed to participate in the CERN CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) and contribute to the resolution of computer security incidents.

Qualifications Required

Master's Degree in the field of Computer Science or related field, or equivalent.

Experience and Competencies

The experience required for this post is:

• Proven capabilities in negotiating policies within an international collaboration of academic stakeholders, ideally already with a tight network of contacts within the international academic HEP community and/or the WLCG.
• Demonstrated experience in the computer security domain, on computer, network or software security, or as computer system administrator.

• The technical competencies required for this post are:
• Solution Architecture, User Relationship Management, Requirements definition and management, systems design
• Good knowledge of the Linux/UNIX operating system and in particular of shell scripting and
• programming (Perl, Python, and/or C), other languages or technologies would be a plus;

The behavioural competencies required for this post are:

• Achieving results: Delivering high quality work on time and fulfilling expectations; having a structured and organised approach towards work; being able to set priorities and plan tasks with results in mind; driving work / projects along and seeing them through to their conclusion.
• Communicating effectively: Successfully changing other people's opinions by persuasive arguments; delivering presentations in a structured and clear way; adjusting style and content to the audience; responding calmly and confidently to questions; expressing opinions, ideas and suggestions with conviction and in a logical/structured manner; keeping to the point.
• Learning and sharing knowledge: Keeping up-to-date with developments in own field of expertise and readily absorbing new information; sharing knowledge and expertise freely and willingly with others; coaching others to ensure knowledge transfer; creating or participating in forums to exchange experience, comparing techniques and learn from others.
• Solving problems: Identifying, defining and assessing problems, taking action to address them; addressing complex problems by breaking them down into manageable components; adopting a pragmatic approach; understanding the value of adopting generic rather than 'gold -plated' technical solutions.
• Working in the interest of the Organization: Championing new initiatives within and beyond the scope of own job; promoting synergy and cooperation between the various parts of the Organization.

The language competencies required for this post are:

• Spoken and written English: ability to draw-up technical specifications and/or scientific reports, and/or to make oral presentations. Basic knowledge of French language or an undertaking to acquire it rapidly.

If you are attracted by this post please discuss your interest directly with Stefan Lueders or Tim Smith (since the selected person will work closely with the IT-CDA Group too).

Not for you? You can nevertheless help the Organization finding the right candidates by talking to your internal contacts and/or signing up for eqipia (link is external), our employee referral support tool which will make it easy for you to publicise these jobs in your network.

Don’t hesitate to contact our HRA, Isabel Pumares Arguelles if you have questions or comments.

The IT department will publish soon on the CERN job portal the following Computing Technical Engineer job:

Storage Specialist in the Storage Group (ST), File systems and Disks Operations section (FDO)

Work with us to extend our data handling systems for the LHC physics programme and the whole of CERN. CERN is the  birthplace of the world wide web and one of the world leading laboratories for particle physics! Join CERN's Storage Group in the IT department as a storage specialist for a unique challenge as the next step in your career!

The CERN IT Storage Group (ST) is responsible to enable data access for the laboratory, most notably to archive, preserve over the long term and distribute to the worldwide scientific community the LHC experimental data. Today we operate a disk/tape hybrid system (CASTOR: cern.ch/castor optimised for archiving), several large disk farms (EOS: cern.ch/eos for data analysis) and user-oriented repositories (Linux home directory: AFS; cloud storage: CERNBOX). In total ST handles more than 200 petabyte of data across about 2,000 data servers (30,000 disks) and 20,000 high-capacity tapes.

The present data infrastructure is being evolved to extend its functionality and rationalise its deployment. New access protocols (POSIX file access, WebDAV) have been added to simplify data access for our clients (Linux, Mac and Windows), to increase the user experience (disconnected operations, cloud synchronisation, flexible web access) and to enable new way to process data combining local access, batch processing and web-based data systems. The next phase is the migration in the new infrastructure (including the AFS phase out for Linux users and absorbing some of the DFS usage of Windows users).

The primary focus of the activity will be to bring in production a uniform multi-platform data access. The selected candidate will contribute to the operation and support activities of the Filesystems and Data Operations (FDO) section.

Functions

As a Computing Technical Engineer in the Storage group, the successful candidate will:

• Contribute to the validation and testing of the new system.
• Prepare the roll out of the new system and support it the massive adoption phase, mainly from AFS and to a certain extent from DFS.
• Contribute to the development of the tools and procedures to facilitate the migration into the new system.
• Install, operate and support the software components of the FDO services, as well as participate to the on-call duty (support and incident response). 
• Maintain/improve system documentation (procedures; regular reports; incident analysis; user documentation) together with other members of the FDO section. 

Qualifications Required

Bachelor's degree in the field of Computing (or equivalent).

Experience and Competencies

The candidate should have demonstrated practical experience in at least some of the following areas:

• Linux and Windows operating system administration
• In-depth practical experience in scripting languages, as PERL or Python programming
• Experience with testing and troubleshooting distributed systems.

The following additional experience would be an asset:

• Large disk storage systems; external storage networking; global filesystems or object stores; disk hardware technologies (SAS/SATA HD, SSD) 
• Linux cluster management, automation and monitoring tools;
• Database technologies (SQL);
• Kerberos based authentication, Public Key infrastructure and X-509 certificates.

The technical competencies required for this post are:

• IT Operations: handling incidents and requests, executing changes, providing information and feedback to the service managers
• Systems installation/decommissioning
• Systems integration
• Usability evaluation

The behavioural competencies required for this post are:

• Achieving results: delivering high quality work on time and fulfilling expectations
• Communicating effectively: providing others with timely information
• Demonstrating flexibility: adapting quickly and resourcefully to shifting priorities and requirements
• Working in teams: working well in groups and readily fitting into a team; participating fully and taking an active role in team activities
• Working in the interest of the Organization: behaving consistently with CERN's values and goals

The language competencies required for this post are:

• Good knowledge of English is required; Ability to draw-up technical specifications and/or scientific reports and to make oral presentations. Basic knowledge of French or an undertaking to acquire it rapidly.

If you are attracted by this post please discuss your interest directly with Massimo Lamanna.

Not for you? You can nevertheless help the Organization finding the right candidates by talking to your internal contacts and/or signing up for eqipia (link is external), our employee referral support tool which will make it easy for you to publicise these jobs in your network.

Don’t hesitate to contact our HRA, Isabel Pumares Arguelles if you have questions or comments.

The IT department will publish soon on the CERN job portal the following 3 Computing Engineer jobs:

Engineers (Computing) in the Computing and Monitoring Group (CM), Resource Provisioning (RPS) and Infrastructure Services (IS) sections

Take an active role in the smooth running of compute intensive services for CERN. Provide the infrastructure and tools for analysis of the data from the Large Hadron Collider and other experiments!

You will join:

• The Compute and Monitoring (CM) group which provides compute resources, schedulers and tools to support efficient usage of over 200,000 computing cores at the CERN data centers. More information on the group is at: http://information-technology.web.cern.ch/about/organisation/compute-monitoring
• Either the Resource Provisioning Section (RPS), responsible for providing compute and service infrastructure for CERN or the Infrastructure Services Section (IS), responsible for delivering the compute intensive services for CERN and the Worldwide Computing Grid.

Functions

As a Computing Engineer in the IT-CM group, you will maintain and evolve the CERN compute services across a wide range of technologies including large private and public cloud facilities, compute intensive batch systems and high performance clusters.

Your main activities will consist of:

• Daily management of the services which includes third level service support, deployment of software packages, performance and availability monitoring and computing security;
• Advice and solution design for our users and LHC experiments staff in the use of the CERN compute services;
• Automation using Agile/DevOps tools such as Puppet to support running compute resources at scale
• Contributing developments to Open Source communities such as OpenStack, HTCondor and Puppet;
• Coordination of major deployments such as new releases of software and operating systems
• Definition, documentation and implementation of procedures following the ITIL recommendations;
• Close collaboration with other IT groups, departments and physics experiments at CERN.

Qualifications Required

Master's degree in the field of Computer Science or related field, or equivalent.

Experience and Competencies

• The experience required for this post is:

  Please note we are looking for 3 profiles in this Vacancy, therefore not meeting all requested experience will not be a reason for disqualification.

  • Managing large scale Linux 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 of distributed applications, high performance application tuning and optimisation, such as MPI and Infiniband

• The technical competencies required for this post are:
  • IT operations: deliver and support properly-engineered IT services and products to meet the needs of CERN
  • Design & selection of methods and tools: analyse sub-optimum procedures, streamline and document new ones; optimisation of existing tools and selection of the most appropriate one for a given process
  • Technical advice and guidance: handling of special user requests; development of technical expertise within the team
  • Change management: coordination of changes within and outside the group
  • Release management: organisation of large scale deployments in a complex environment
• The behavioural competencies required for this post are:
  • Communicating effectively: Expresses opinions, ideas and suggestions with conviction and in a logical/structured manner.
  • Building relationships: Delivers prompt and efficient service taking into account customer needs.
  • Solving problems: Produces a range of innovative and workable solutions.
  • Demonstrating flexibility: Readily adjusts plans and priorities to respond to changing circumstances.
  • Working in teams: Builds and maintains constructive and effective work relationships.

The language competencies required for this post are:
Spoken and written English: Ability to draw-up technical specifications documentation and/or scientific reports. Basic knowledge of French or an undertaking to acquire it rapidly.

If you are attracted by this post please discuss your interest directly with Tim Bell.

Not for you? You can nevertheless help the Organization finding the right candidates by talking to your internal contacts and/or signing up for eqipia (link is external), our employee referral support tool which will make it easy for you to publicise these jobs in your network.

Don’t hesitate to contact our HRA, Isabel Pumares Arguelles if you have questions or comments.

The IT department will publish soon on the CERN job portal the following Computing Engineer job:

Experienced Web Developer (Software developer) in the Communication systems (CS) group, Communication Tools (CT) section

Are you an experienced web architect/developer? Does contributing to the improvement of an advanced Network and Telecoms infrastructure and providing automation solutions for its effective management, attract you? Do you enjoy working on several layers of the software stack? Join CERN's Communication Systems group and make your mark: Take part!

You will join:

• The Communication Systems (CS) Group, responsible for the Networking & Telecommunications Infrastructure (voice and data) of the Laboratory. In terms of networking, the Group is responsible for a Campus network making use of state of the art technologies to support over 60,000 fixed and Wi-Fi clients, a high-performance data centre network for over 10,000 servers and a high-reliability dedicated network supporting infrastructure critical to the operation of CERN’s accelerators. The Group also operates CERN’s fixed telephone system (10'000 connections), dedicated GSM infrastructure (6'000 mobiles) and TETRA radio communication system.
• The Communication Tools (CT) Section, a team of passionate software developers in charge of the design, development and maintenance of the software suite used to model, configure, support and manage all of CERN’s network and telecommunication infrastructures.

Functions

As Software Developer in the CT Section, you will:

• Maintain and further develop the IT/CS web interfaces used by all CERN users to request network/telephony changes.
• Together with the other members of the team, participate in the design and development of new modules for the internal IT/CS network and telecom management framework, such as network and IP telephony automation/provisioning.
• Promote and develop the procedures and tools to further increase the quality of the produced software: enhance the CS continuous integration and automated testing frameworks.
• Mentor junior developers.
• Propose and implement changes in our database model and network APIs in order to support service integration solutions in the CERN data centers.
• Stay up to date on latest software technology trends.

Qualifications Required

Master's Degree in the field of Computing, Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent.

Experience and Competencies

• The experience required for this post is:
  • Proven experience in development and maintenance of large software packages in Java
  • Demonstrated experience in using current web front-end technologies (JavaScript including common JavaScript frameworks, HTML5, CSS, REST etc.)
  • Demonstrated experience in software development life cycle: unit testing, continuous integration, version control, documentation.
  • Database design and working knowledge of SQL.
  • User-centric design principles and methodologies.
  • Understanding of TCP/IP addressing and networking.

• The technical competencies required for this post are:
  • Programming/Software development: Java, PL/SQL, Spring, Hibernate, JavaScript, Web application development.
  • Software development process improvement: Agile methodologies, continuous integration, software reviews.
  • Solution architecture: requirements specification collection and analysis, proposal for new software architectures.
  • Database/Repository design: development tools, specification, design and maintenance of mechanisms for modelling large and complex infrastructures.
  • Application support: provide specialised 3rd line support to business specialists.
• The behavioural competencies required for this post are:
  • Solving Problems: having a disciplined approach to analysing complex data and situations.
  • Learning and sharing knowledge: sharing knowledge and expertise freely and willingly with others, proposing ways to improve or streamline existing procedures, processes and methodologies.
  • Managing self: working well autonomously, taking on activities without prompting.
  • Working in teams: contributing to promoting a positive atmosphere in the team through an optimistic and constructive attitude.

• The language competencies required for this post are:

Spoken and written English with the ability to draw-up technical documentations and specifications and to make oral presentations. Basic knowledge of French or an undertaking to acquire it rapidly.

If you are attracted by this post please discuss your interest directly with Tony Cass.

Not for you? You can nevertheless help the Organization finding the right candidates by talking to your internal contacts and/or signing up for eqipia (link is external), our employee referral support tool which will make it easy for you to publicise these jobs in your network.

Don’t hesitate to contact our HRA, Isabel Pumares Arguelles if you have questions or comments.

The IT department will publish soon on the CERN job portal the following Computing Engineer job:

Network Engineer in the Communications Systems (CS) Group, Communication Engineering (CE) Section

Are you a talented network engineer? Does contributing to the improvement of an advanced campus network with high-speed, worldwide connections sound attractive? Join CERN’s Communication Systems Group and make your mark. Take part!

You will join:

• The Communication Systems (CS) Group, responsible for all aspects of network and telecommunication provision at CERN. We support a campus network (fixed and Wi-Fi) with over 60,000 active devices, a 19.2 Tb/s non-blocking switching fabric for a data centre with over 10,000 servers, 4,000 of which with 10Gb/s interfaces, and external connections including three trans-border 100 Gb/s circuits.
• The Communication Engineering (CE) Section, responsible for designing, building and managing the Network infrastructure that supports the computing facilities and services of the laboratory as well as transferring the colossal volumes of LHC data to and from the data centre. The CE section is also responsible for critical network services such as DNS, DHCP and NTP.

Functions

As a Network Engineer in a small team of highly qualified colleagues, you will:

• Participate in the operation and management of the Campus network, the Data Centre network and our long distance, high speed interconnections,
• Contribute to the evaluation and deployment of new network services, and
• Develop and maintain software tools and administrative procedures.

Qualifications Required

Master’s degree in the field of Computer Science or Telecommunications, or equivalent.

Experience and Competencies

The experience required for this post is:

• Demonstrated experience in network design, deployment, management, monitoring and operations, including knowledge and practical experience of:
  • Ethernet protocols, IPv4 and IPv6 routing protocols, UDP and TCP protocols,
  • optical high speed network technologies,
  • network security, and
  • dealing with network device manufacturers and their support teams.
• Demonstrated experience of Linux system administration with knowledge of Bash and Perl or Python programming.
• Knowledge of Wi-Fi technologies would be an advantage.

The technical competencies required for this post are:

• Network support: in a large, multi-vendor network infrastructure and with experience with SNMP and monitoring tools such as Nagios or Spectrum
• Network control and operation: knowledge of TCP/IP fundamentals and routing protocols (OSPF, BGP) and preferably other protocols such as IPv6, MPLS and SNMP
• Systems installation/decommissioning: installation and commissioning of network equipment (switches, routers, wireless access points, firewalls)
• Programming/Software development: notably with scripting languages such as Perl or Python
• System software administration: Linux/Unix systems installation and administration with good knowledge of Linux network related tools such as iptables or tcpdump

The behavioural competencies required for this post are:

• Solving Problems: Identifying, defining and assessing problems, taking action to address them. Recognizing what is essential; discriminating between important and peripheral information and being able to see the whole picture. Addressing complex problems by breaking them down into manageable components.
• Achieving Results: Delivering high quality work on time and fulfilling expectations. Having a structured and organised approach towards work; being able to set priorities and plan tasks with results in mind. Objectively assessing and monitoring own work; regularly reporting on progress and advising of any changes in schedule or priorities.
• Communicating Effectively: Delivering presentations in a structured and clear way; adjusting style and content to the audience; responding calmly and confidently to questions. Ensuring that information, procedures and decisions are appropriately documented. Providing others with timely information.
• Learning and Sharing Knowledge: Keeping up-to-date with developments in own field of expertise and readily absorbing new information. Sharing knowledge and expertise freely and willingly with others; coaching others to ensure knowledge transfer. Creating or participating in forums to exchange experience, comparing techniques and learn from others.
• Managing Self: Working well autonomously; taking on activities and tasks without prompting. Taking initiative beyond regular tasks and making things happen.

The language competencies required for this post are:

• Spoken and written English with the ability to draw-up technical documentations and specifications and to make oral presentations. Basic knowledge of French or an undertaking to acquire it rapidly.

If you are attracted by this post please discuss your interest directly with Tony Cass.

Not for you? You can nevertheless help the Organization finding the right candidates by talking to your internal contacts and/or signing up for eqipia (link is external), our employee referral support tool which will make it easy for you to publicise these jobs in your network.

Don’t hesitate to contact our HRA, Isabel Pumares Arguelles if you have questions or comments.

The IT department will publish soon on the CERN job portal the following Computing Engineer job:

Software Engineer (Web Applications) in the Collaboration, Devices & Applications (CDA) Group, Digital Repositories (DR) Section

Are you an experienced Software Engineer who enjoys innovative Full-stack Web Development? Take an active role in development and service management, joining a dynamic team using cutting edge technologies, for a large open source project used by thousands of users every day all around the world. Work at the heart of digital research publication and archival at the largest particle physics lab in the world: CERN.

You will join the Digital Repositories (DR) Section which is responsible for activities related to archival, preservation and dissemination of CERN’s research. DR leads the development of Invenio http://invenio-software.org/, an Open Source Digital Library Framework that is used at CERN, and world-wide by many partners, in order to run services like Institutional Repositories, Integrated Digital Libraries, Research Data Repositories and Multimedia Archives.  DR also develops and maintains the CERN Document Server (CDS) - CERN’s institutional repository (archiving articles, data, photos, videos, audio, etc) and collaborates in several cross-CERN projects (e.g. CERN Open Data Portal and CERN Analysis Preservation) and EU projects (e.g. OpenAIRE/Zenodo and EUDAT/B2Share).

Functions:

As a Software Engineer in the DR section, you will be involved in

• the development of new modules and functionalities for the Invenio Digital Library Framework;
• DevOps activities - the configuration, deployment and maintenance activities of some Invenio-based services;
• providing support for Invenio-based services and Invenio developer community;
• the management of code contributions following an Open Source development model;
• possibly supervising short-term team members.

Qualification required: Master’s degree or equivalent in computer science or a related field

Experience and Competencies:

• The experience required for this post is:
  • Demonstrated experience with the full-stack development of large software projects, preferably for the web, involving design and development of user interfaces, web application back-ends, front-ends and database schema management.
  • Experience with user relations, user support, user training, user requirements definition.
  • Experience in service deployment, configuration management and operation.

• The technical competencies required for this post are:
  • Programming/Software development: very advanced knowledge of Python programming, solid knowledge of JavaScript (e.g. jQuery, ES6); Experience with the Flask web framework is a plus; Experience working in Open Source or otherwise geographically-distributed software projects is also a plus.
  • Front-end development: Demonstrated experience with web UI technologies; Experience with toolkits such as SASS, Twitter Bootstrap and AngularJS is a plus; Knowledge of User Experience and Usability practices.
  • Database/Repository design: extensive experience with Database Management Systems (PostgreSQL in particular) and Object-Relational Mapping libraries (e.g. SQLAlchemy); Experience with Elasticsearch and Redis is a plus.
  • Configuration management: experience building and maintaining configuration templates and parameters (OpenStack and Puppet is a plus); Knowledge of container-based technologies and platforms (e.g. Docker, OpenShift) is also a plus.
  • Requirements definition and management.

• The behavioral competencies required for this post are:
  • Achieving results: delivering high quality work on time and fulfilling expectations; delivering prompt and efficient service taking into account customer needs.
  • Solving problems: identifying, defining and assessing problems, take action to address them; producing workable and timely solutions that meet requirements; testing solutions for long-term suitability, cross-checking with all concerned before implementation.
  • Working in teams: contributing to promoting a positive atmosphere in the team through optimistic and constructive attitude; supporting and acting in accordance with team decisions; accepting joint responsibility for team successes and shortcomings.
  • Communicating: delivering presentations in a structured and clear way; adjusting style and content to the audience; responding calmly and confidently to questions.
  • Learning and sharing knowledge: sharing knowledge and expertise freely and willingly with others; coaching others to ensure knowledge transfer.

• The language competencies required for this post are: Good knowledge of English is required; basic knowledge of French or an undertaking to acquire it rapidly.

If you are attracted by this post please discuss your interest directly with Jose Benito Gonzalez Lopez or Tim Smith.

Not for you? You can nevertheless help the Organization finding the right candidates by talking to your internal contacts and/or signing up for eqipia (link is external), our employee referral support tool which will make it easy for you to publicise these jobs in your network.

Don’t hesitate to contact our HRA, Isabel Pumares Arguelles if you have questions or comments.

The IT department will publish soon on the CERN job portal the following Computing Engineer job:

Computer Hardware Engineer in the Computing Facilities Group (CF), Facility Planning and Procurement Section (FPP).

Are you interested in Computer Hardware? Does taking technical responsibility for procurement and deployment processes of hundreds of servers and storage systems/devices for Linux and Windows challenge you?

This is a good opportunity to join the team responsible for the 11’000 servers and 230 petabytes of disk storage currently deployed in the CERN IT Computing Facility.

You will be involved in the procurement of hundreds of servers and tens of petabytes of disk storage yearly for the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid Tier-0 centre at CERN as well as for the many services run by other groups in CERN IT and its associated remote hosting centre at the Wigner institute in Budapest, Hungary.

Also, testing and integration of new technologies such as the hardware available through the Open Compute Project (OCP, http://www.opencompute.org/) will be part of your activities.

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Experience:

• Demonstrated experience with PC server hardware (x86 processor architecture, cores, memory, BIOS) and types of disk storage (SATA, SAS, FC), with Linux & Windows, as well as with Linux shell programming and Python programming language;
• Initial experience in contract management, in preparing specifications and negotiating with contractor's counterparts;
• Initial experience with IPMI and SMART;
• Knowledge and/or practical experience of OCP hardware and ideally also practical experience with such hardware;
• Experience with competitive tenders at CERN or other publicly funded organisations is an asset.

Technical Competencies:

- Technical supervision of contract  - Technical coordination of Openlab projects with Intel and other partners

- Emerging technology monitoring Track computer hardware and software technologies, in particular from Intel, and try to match with potential usage at CERN

- User Relationship Management - Establish and maintain regular contacts with end-users in LHC experiments and other collaborations

- Application support - Assist end-user physicists in porting applications to benefit from latest technologies

- Programming/Software development - Use latest development techniques for tuning application performance

Behavioural Competencies:

- Demonstrating Accountability: Maintaining confidentiality; Working conscientiously and reliably; delivering on promises; Standing up for own opinion and actions with well substantiated arguments.

- Communicating Effectively: Providing others with timely information; Delivering presentations in a structured and clear way; adjusting style and content to the audience; responding calmly and confidently to questions; Leveraging support networks across the Organization.

- Working in Teams: Working well in groups and readily fitting into a team; participating fully and taking an active role in team activities; Building and maintaining constructive and effective work relationships; Gaining trust and collaboration from others.

- Solving Problems: Identifying, defining and assessing problems, taking action to address them; Finding the information needed to solve problems; making objective judgments based on all the facts available; Adopting a pragmatic approach; understanding the value of adopting generic rather than ‘gold -plated' technical solutions.

- Learning and Sharing Knowledge: Sharing knowledge and expertise freely and willingly with others; coaching others to ensure knowledge transfer; Actively pursuing own personal and professional development; Taking steps to expand knowledge in other areas of expertise beyond own field.

If you are attracted by this post please discuss your interest directly with Olof Barring or Wayne Salter.

Not for you? You can nevertheless help the Organization finding the right candidates by talking to your internal contacts and/or signing up for eqipia , our employee referral support tool which will make it easy for you to publicise these jobs in your network.

Don’t hesitate to contact our HRA, Isabel Pumares Arguelles if you have questions or comments.

The IT department will publish soon on the CERN job portal the following Computing Engineer job:

A Software Engineer (Web Applications) in the Collaboration, Devices & Applications Group, Integrated Collaboration Section,  to work on the consolidation of the Indico application and the development of new modules and functionalities for its users, as well as the configuration, deployment and maintenance activities of the Indico service at CERN.

In this job, providing support and training sessions to Indico users will be an excellent opportunity to deploy your expertise and put into practice your Communication skills, at the same time that you keep developing your technical competencies.

In addition, you will manage external code contributions following an Open Source development model.

This is an important job to support the site-wide conference and collaboration infrastructure!

Do you have this profile?

• Experience in the development of large software projects, preferably for the web, involving design and development of user interfaces, web application back-ends and database schema management.
• Experience with user relation, user support, user training, user requirements definition.
• Experience in service deployment, configuration management and operation, usability requirements analysis and requirements definition and management.
• Very experienced in Python programming, JavaScript, Database Management Systems (PostgreSQL in particular) and Object-Relational Mapping libraries (e.g. SQLAlchemy); Configuration management (Puppet is a plus).
• Ideally experienced with the Flask web framework and working in Open Source or otherwise geographically-distributed software projects, container-based technologies and platforms.

If you are attracted by this post please discuss your interest directly with Thomas Baron or Tim Smith.

Not for you? You can nevertheless help the Organization finding the right candidates by talking to your internal contacts and/or signing up for eqipia, our employee referral support tool which will make it easy for you to publicise these jobs in your network.

Don’t hesitate to contact our HRA, Isabel Pumares Arguelles if you have questions or comments.

Congratulations to the CERN IT team in charge of the public procurement of OCP (Open Compute Project) for their Datacenter Dynamics EMEA Award in the Open Data Center Project catagory!

To know more:

• http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/content-tracks/design-build/2016-dcd-emea-award-winners-announced/97454.article
• http://openlab.cern/news/cern-project-wins-emea-awards

The IT department has published the following Computing Engineer job, which is posted on the CERN job portal:

• Storage Developer/ Engineer in the Storage Group (ST),  to participate in the design, development, maintenance and optimization of the various data and storage management products of the group. Product documentation, testing infrastructure and in service design discussions will be essential parts of this job, which will also include interaction with end-users as part of the level-4 support.

  The post will allow to participate actively in strategic development collaborations of the group such as the XROOT project and the development collaboration as part of Openlab projects.

  If you have excellent object-oriented design, development skills in C/C++, great understanding of system level disk and network I/O and multi-threading concepts, practical understanding of the Linux operating system administration and in depth skills in UNIX shell script, Perl or Python programming, this might be the next job for you! If you are attracted by this post please discuss your interest directly with Dirk Duellmann or Alberto Pace.

Not for you? You can nevertheless help the Organization finding the right candidates by talking to your internal contacts and/or signing up for eqipia, our employee referral support tool which will make it easy for you to publicise these jobs in your network.

Do not hesitate to send your questions or comments to our HRA, Isabel Pumares Arguelles

Full vacancy notice available here.

Happy 15th birthday UNOSAT! To know more about the UNITAR’s Operational Satellite Applications Programme hosted at CERN by the IT department, please check the article and video available on home.cern: http://home.cern/about/updates/2016/10/unosat-15-years-humanitarian-mapping

An article will also be published in the upcoming Bulletin and a conference will be organised in the main auditorium at the end of January 2017 (exact date to be confirmed) as well as a one-week exhibition.

The IT department foresees the publication of the following computing engineer job, which will be posted on the CERN job portal in the coming days:

• A storage developer/ Engineer in the Storage Group (ST),  to manage the tape-based archive and backup services provided by CASTOR and TSM.  The evolution, redesign and development of the tape archive software as well as its integration in the wider portfolio of storage solutions (in particular EOS) are also part of the role.   If you have good knowledge of Linux operating system administration (RedHat Enterprise Linux), a solid experience in UNIX shell scripting and Perl or Python programming, C/C++ development and are attracted by this post, please discuss your interest directly with German Cancio Melia or Alberto Pace.

Not for you? You can nevertheless help the Organization finding the right candidates by signing up for eqipia, our employee referral support tool which will make it easy for you to publicise these jobs in your network.

Do not hesitate to send your questions or comments to our HRA, Lore Taillieu

The IT department foresees the publication of 3 LD posts, which will be posted on the CERN job portal in the coming weeks:

• A junior system administrator in the IT-CF group, SAO section.  This role is a good role for a junior candidate who will be integrated in a team of peers and share responsibility for the daily operation of CERN’s large grid computing fabric (servers running on Linux, storage and virtual machines ) ) as well as for managing and monitoring related equipment and services.  Want to know more? Fabio Trevisani will be happy to talk you through the role
• A network and telecom support technician in the IT-CS group.  This role focuses on ensuring reliable telephony and network services by monitoring, problem-solving and -dispatching, organising interventions and continuously improving processes and procedures. If you feel strongly about delivering service, and have some field experience or are eager to learn on the job, interacting with experts, you may want to talk to Gyorgy Balazs.
• A system and web engineer for the Database services group, to support critical web-based applications and databases throughout their full life-cycle. You will support the service providing 3rd level support, new developments and deployments, and improving performance. All of this whilst maximizing automation and ensuring computing security. If you enjoy working on critical applications, interacting with peers and developers, and enjoy Java programming, make the effort to check it out in more detail by contacting Artur Wiecek or Eric Grancher.

Not for you? You can nevertheless help the Organization finding the right candidates by signing up for eqipia, our employee referral support tool which will make it easy for you to publicise these jobs in your network.

Do not hesitate to send your questions or comments to our HRA, Lore Taillieu.

The registration is now open for CERN IT Create, a two-day event to unleash ideas and to challenge your creativity!

This event will take place on 17th and 18th March 2016 and will be hosted at IdeaSquare (building 3179). The objective is to brainstorm and work in teams  to design and produce the first prototypes of an exhibit to enhance the experience of the public visitors to the CERN data centre building. It is possible to take part in one of the four pre-defined projects or to register for an 'open' project.

The event is open to anyone from the CERN IT department available on 17th and 18th March during working hours. Up to eight teams of about 4 to 6 people will be collaborating over two days and will receive guidance from experts, design professionals and artists from the Arts@CERN programme. People who cannot participate for the two full days but would like to join are also welcome to register as 'experts on call' (just mention the areas of expertise you are happy to contribute to projects; may take approximately two hours of your time the second day of the workshop).

To register and to know more, please see the event Indico page: http://indico.cern.ch/e/ITCreate

We look forward to seeing you at the event!

The first milestone of the OpenCloudMesh (OCM) project was reached during the Cloud Services for Synchronisation and Sharing (CS3) workshop, organised by CERN on 18-19 January 2016 in ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
To know more please check the article published on the GEANT website.

Please find information below about two workshops coming up this autumn. Both courses are designed for scientists and engineers who undertake programming tasks, particularly in C and C++

Computer architecture and hardware-software interaction (2 days, Oct 26-27)

The architecture course offers a comprehensive overview of current topics in computer architecture and their consequences for the programmer: from the basic Von Neumann schema to its modern-day expansions. Understanding hardware-software interaction allows us to better use all features of available computer hardware and compilers. Specific architectural features are discussed (such as execution ports, branching algorithms, etc), as well as instruction sets, compilers, memory operation and architecture, fundamentals of floating point and acceleration. Hands-on labs are included.

https://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9:200967694464912::::X_STATUS,X_COURSE_ID:D,5063

Programming and environments for parallelism (4 days, Nov 3-6)

The parallelism course dives into a wide range of parallel programming techniques, whether data- or task-parallel. We start with an overview of patterns, look at trade-offs, pitfalls and available parallel programming environments – with a particular focus on OpenMP4, Threading Building Blocks and Cilk. The last day is an advanced class devoted to fine-tuning and balancing parallel programs using modern frameworks, runtimes and APIs. Hands-on labs are included.

https://cta.cern.ch/cta2/f?p=110:9:200967694464912::::X_STATUS,X_COURSE_ID:D,5064

Both courses, taught by Andrzej Nowak, are organised in cooperation with CERN openlab and are sponsored by the CERN IT Department – there is only a nominal registration fee of 50 CHF. Registrations can be made through EDH and the CERN training catalogue.

25.07.2014 - 3:30 p.m.CERN, Main auditorium

“LEP II era/precision physics” (1994-2004) by Lydia Fayard, Steve Myers and Roberto Tenchini
Lecture in English

Programme
15:30 - 15:45 : coffee
15:45 - 16:30 The quest for the direct CP Violation in the Kaon System at CERN : The NA31 & NA48 experiments, by Lydia Iconomidou-Fayard (Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))
16:30 - 17:15 “ Operational performance of LEP and LEP2” by Steve Myers (CERN)
17:15 – 18:00 LEP II era/ precision physics by Roberto Tenchini (Sezione di Pisa (IT))

French version - English version below

Quelle science pour quelle société ? Une réflexion sur le développement des grands projets scientifiques, par Ulrike Felt

Mardi 15 juillet 2014 à 19h30 au Globe de la science et de l'innovation
Route de Meyrin, 1211 Genève
La conférence sera donnée en anglais et traduite en français.
Réservation indispensable : +41 22 767 76 76 or cern.reception@cern.ch

Retrouvez également tous les événements organisés par le CERN en 2014 sur www.cern.ch/cern60

Résumé

Le CERN peut sans aucun doute être décrit comme l’un des projets scientifiques les plus ambitieux jamais entrepris. Depuis 60 ans, les États membres ont non seulement investi des sommes importantes pour financer une institution, mais aussi un programme de recherche visionnaire. Cela a contribué à changer la façon dont les recherches sont menées, un changement que l’on résume par l’appellation « big science ».

Cependant, cette forme de projets de recherche à grande échelle soulève également un certain nombre de questions fondamentales : que signifie « faire de la recherche » aujourd’hui ? Qu’est-ce qui a changé ? Qu’est-ce qui justifie un tel engagement de la société et un tel soutien pour un projet scientifique si long et si coûteux ? Enfin, de quelle manière les recherches menées au CERN ont contribué, et contribuent encore, au développement de la société contemporaine ?

En se basant sur quelques exemples clés, cette conférence examinera de quelle façon la recherche a changé, et comment les relations entre la science et la société ont évolué depuis la création du CERN. Cela nous permettra de mieux comprendre les multiples liens qui existent entre la recherche et la société contemporaine.

Biographie 

Ulrike Felt est directrice du département d’études scientifiques et technologiques, au sein duquel elle occupe un poste de professeur, et vice-doyenne pour la recherche de la Faculté des sciences sociales de l’Université de Vienne. Elle possède un doctorat de physique/mathématiques et une habilitation en sociologie des sciences et études scientifiques et technologiques. Ses recherches et ses nombreux articles portent sur la gouvernance, la démocratie, et la participation du public aux technosciences, tout en se penchant sur l’évolution de la culture de la recherche, ainsi que sur le rôle du temps dans les questions liées à la science et la société. Elle s’attache souvent à comparer différents contextes nationaux, mais aussi les domaines technologiques et scientifiques, notamment les sciences de la vie, la biomédecine et les nanotechnologies. Professeure invitée dans de nombreuses universités, elle a été sollicitée en tant que consultante par la Commission européenne et par des organismes nationaux. De juillet 2002 à juin 2007, elle a occupé le poste d’éditrice en chef de la revue internationale spécialisée Science, Technology, & Human Values.

English version

What science for what kind of society? Reflecting the development of big science, by Professor Ulrike Felt

Tuesday 15 July 2014 at 7:30 p.m.
Globe of Science and Innovation
Route de Meyrin, 1211 Genève
Reservation : +41 22 767 76 76 or cern.reception@cern.ch
Lecture will be in English – Translation available in French

Abstract

Without any doubt, CERN can be described as being among the most ambitious scientific enterprises ever undertaken. For 60 years, the Member States have not only invested considerable financial means into this institution, but have also supported the creation of a highly visionary research programme. And this has led to a change in the way science is done, as captured by the idea of "big science".

Yet this naturally also raises a number of quite fundamental questions: How did the meaning of "doing science" change? What justifies societal engagement with and support for such a cost-intensive long-term scientific undertaking? And finally, in what ways does (and did) this research enterprise contribute to the development of contemporary societies?

By focusing on some key examples, the talk will thus explore how the ways of doing research and scientific and societal relations have undergone change over the history of CERN. This will allow an understanding of the many ways in which the development of research and contemporary societies are intertwined.

Biography 

Ulrike Felt is Professor of Science and Technology Studies, Head of the STS Department and Vice-Dean for Research of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna. She holds a PhD in Physics/Mathematics and a habilitation in Sociology of Science/Science and Technology Studies. Her research interests gravitate around issues of governance, democracy and public participation in technoscience, changing research cultures, and the role of time in science and society issues. She has published widely in these fields. Her work is often comparative between national contexts and between technological or scientific fields (especially life sciences, biomedicine and nanotechnologies). She has been an invited professor at numerous universities and has been involved in policy advice to the European Commission as well as to national bodies. From July 2002 to June 2007 she was editor-in-chief of the international peer-reviewed journal Science, Technology, & Human Values.

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Science and society : the impact of computing at CERN on society, by Dr. Bob Jones, CERN IT department

Thursday 22 May 2014 at 7:30 p.m.
Globe of Science and Innovation
Route de Meyrin, 1211 Genève

Lecture in English, with simultaneous interpreting into French

Abstract
CERN is often referred to as the place “where the web was born”. The world-wide-web has fundamentally changed society and launched a wave of new global industries. The world-wide-web happened because there was a specific problem that was seen as an Information Technology (IT) challenge by its inventors. As the scientific programme of CERN has progressed, new IT challenges have been faced such as how to handle the mind-boggling amount of data that is produced by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Being able to face those challenges has contributed to the success of the LHC and the discovery of the Higgs particle. This public lecture will explore some of those challenges, how they have been tackled and what impact they are having beyond physics and ultimately on society as a whole.

Biography
Bob Jones is head of the CERN openlab project (openlab.cern.ch) which is a unique public-private partnership between CERN and leading ICT companies. Its mission is to accelerate the development of cutting-edge solutions to be used by the worldwide LHC community.

Bob is a member of the management team of the Helix Nebula – the Science Cloud initiative (http://www.helix-nebula.eu/), a public private partnership to explore the use of commercial cloud services for science applications.

Bob joined CERN in 1986 as a software developer providing support for the physics experiments running on the now dismantled Large Electron Positron (LEP) particle accelerator.   He has been involved in several research projects for the LHC accelerator and has held the position of leader of the online software system for the ATLAS experiment (http://www.atlas.ch/) at the LHC. 

His experience in the distributed computing arena includes mandates as the technical director and then project director of the EGEE projects (2004-2010 http://www.eu-egee.org), which established and operated a production grid facility for e-Science spanning 300 sites across 48 countries for more than 12,000 researchers.

This lecture is organised within the framework of CERN60 events

» No specialist knowledge required
» Entrance free 
» Limited number of seats - registration is essential
» Reservation: +41 22 767 76 76 or cern.reception@cern.ch

"Science et société : l'impact de l'informatique développée au CERN sur la société", par Bob Jones, département IT du CERN

19h30, au Globe de la science et de l'innovation
La conférence sera donnée en anglais et traduite en français.
Réservation indispensable : +41 22 767 76 76 or cern.reception@cern.ch

Plus d’informations sur : http://outreach.web.cern.ch/outreach/FR/evenements/conferences.html
Retrouvez également tous les événements organisés par le CERN en 2014 sur www.cern.ch/cern60

Résumé
On parle souvent du CERN comme le « berceau du web ». Le web a changé notre société en profondeur et a contribué à la création de nouvelles industries globales. Le web a vu le jour parce que ses créateurs avaient un problème précis à résoudre qu’ils ont considéré comme un défi de la technologie de l’information. Le programme scientifique du CERN s'est depuis développé, créant de nouveaux défis tels que la gestion de la montagne de données produites par le Grand collisionneur de hadrons (LHC). La capacité de faire face à ces questions a contribué au succès du LHC et à la découverte de la particule de Higgs. Cette conférence publique abordera certaines de ces questions, la façon dont elles ont été résolues et l’impact qu’elles ont au-delà de la physique, et en fin de compte, sur la société entière.

Curriculum Vitae
Bob Jones est responsable du projet CERN openlab(openlab.cern.ch), un partenariat unique en son genre entre le CERN et des entreprises privées spécialisées dans les technologies de l'information et de la communication.  L’objectif de ce projet est de stimuler le développement de solutions de pointe utiles à la communauté LHC du monde entier.

Bob est aussi membre de la direction du projet Helix Nebula – the Science Cloud (http://www.helix-nebula.eu/), un partenariat public-privé qui explore l’usage de services commerciaux en nuage pour des applications scientifiques.

Bob a rejoint le CERN en 1986 en tant que développeur de logiciels, pour apporter son appui aux expériences de physique menées auprès du Grand accélérateur électron-positon (LEP), aujourd’hui démantelé. Il a également participé à de nombreux projets de recherche pour l’accélérateur LHC et a été responsable du système de logiciels en ligne pour l’expérience ATLAS (http://www.atlas.ch/) du LHC. 

Son expérience en infrastructures de calcul distribuées comprend des mandats  en tant que directeur technique d’abord, puis en tant que directeur, des projets EGEE (Enabling Grids for E-sciencE) qui ont créé et exploité une infrastructure de grille de production couvrant 300 sites dans 48 pays différents, et utilisée par plus 12 000 chercheurs.

This is the second announcement of the Olympus Scientific Solutions Seminar which will take place on May 7 at the CERN Council Room.

There are news with respect to the first announcement concerning the agenda:

 - a further talk about extra fast cameras to observe fast phenomena

 - a user case talk concerning an endoscope application in ATLAS and CMS

 - if anyone is interested to contribute with further user experience please contact giulio.aielli@cern.ch

If you have not done before please REGISTER your participation here: https://indico.cern.ch/event/312713/ and have a look to the agenda mostly dedicated to an overview of major R&D applications using latest Olympus leading-edge inspection and measurement solutions including Endoscopy, Remote Visual Inspection, High Speed Video, Phased Array Ultrasound and X-Ray Fluorescence.

In the afternoon it will be possible to see and play with all these instruments during applications hands-on with Olympus experts! 

Important highlights:

 - The registration is for FREE

 - It give the right to the welcome material and gadgets

 - 2 coffee breaks included

 - Lunch offered at R1

 - An Olympus Though camera will be randomly gifted to one of the registered participants during the afternoon session

Free of charge C++ course from EPFL starting on 2014/02/24 and more: https://www.coursera.org/course/cpp-fr

"Diversity in Action" is an interactive half-day workshop designed to creatively explore the meaning and importance of diversity at CERN, in support of the Organization’s value of “appreciating differences, fostering equality and promoting collaboration”.

Limited number of places – for details, please see here and register, if you wish: http://cds.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2013/23/Events/1551725?ln=en

IT DB is pleased to announce a new series of Oracle tutorials, with the proposed schedule:

April, 23rd (Tuesday) - Introduction to Oracle & Tools (30-7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium)

https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=245102

April, 30th (Tuesday) - Database Design & Security (30-7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium)

https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=245104

May, 8th (Wednesday) - SQL (40-S2-C01 - Salle Curie)

https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=245105

May, 21st (Tuesday) - PL/SQL (30-7-018 - Kjell Johnsen Auditorium)

https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=245106

May, 27th (Monday) - Troubleshooting Performance (40-S2-C01 - Salle Curie)

https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=245107

June, 5th (Wednesday) - Troubleshooting Performance - Case Studies (40-S2-C01 - Salle Curie)

https://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=245109

There is no need to register in advance.

More information in the Indico agenda: https://indico.cern.ch/categoryDisplay.py?categId=4779

IC Research Day

THE WORLD OF NETWORKS:
from Social Processes to the Brain

School of Computer and Communication Sciences IC
EPFL, Switzerland
13^th June 2013

Chaired by Professors Matthias Grossglauser and Patrick Thiran

Guest speakers:

Professor Jure Leskovec, Stanford University:
"Exploring the Structure of Massive On-Line Networks"

Professor Jeff W. Lichtman, Harvard University:
"Imaging The Connectome"

Professor Patrick Thiran, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne:
"Inference for Networks and Networks for Inference"

Online registration and further information: http://ic.epfl.ch/researchday2013

Please note that the GIS mapping portal https://maps.cern.ch/mapsearch/ now shows the showers at CERN.

See the list of showers and the search procedure in the attached documents.

Dear Arts Interested at CERN,

Please find hereafter details of the final intervention by Collide@CERN choreographer in residence, Gilles Jobin.

Thanks to the anti matter experiments, there will be an intervention this coming Wednesday in Building 193 between 12.30-1400.

Renovation work on the toilets and showers in b.28 starts this week (w/c 9 July 2012). 

Please note that the toilets on all 4 floors and the basement showers will be no longer accessible for around 3 months, until ~mid October.

If you are keeping any items in the shower room (e.g. towels, products, bicycles), please remove them by the end of the week. 

Temporary toilets have been installed at the "R2-side" exit of 28-R.

Alternative shower locations can be found here.

If you require any further information, please contact the b.28 TSO  Jean-Francois Pernot.

With summer approaching and everyone preparing for the summer holidays, we propose a big “get together” of the IT Staff and their colleagues at an IT Summer BBQ Party!

It will take place on:

Wednesday 27^th June 2012 in the “Picnic Area” in Prévessin as of 5 PM

In order to optimize the preparation, please reply before June 15^th to: http://www.doodle.com/k63rpy9ge7yc6s4t. Please note that this invitation extends to partners.

We will ensure that there are a few other activities like volleyball and others.

For any suggestion, please contact: bruno.lenski@cern.ch.

So register and mark in your diaries:

Wednesday 27^th June 2012, as of 5PM - “Picnic area” in Prévessin.                                       

I hope you can make it !!!  

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Avec l’arrivée de l’été et tous se préparant pour les vacances, nous vous proposons de nous retrouver tous ensemble pour un Barbecue IT !

                Cet évènement se déroulera le

Mercredi  27 Juin  2012 à la “Zone BBQ” de Prévessin à partir de 17h

Afin de pouvoir préparer au mieux, merci de répondre avant le 15 Juin via http://www.doodle.com/k63rpy9ge7yc6s4t. A notez que cette invitation s’adresse également à vos conjoints.

Quelques activités seront proposées telles que du volleyball et autres.

Pour toute suggestion merci d’envoyer un email à bruno.lenski@cern.ch         

Notez donc dans vos agendas :

Mercredi 27 juin 2012, à partir de 17h « Zone Barbecue» à Prévessin

                                                En espérant vous  voir nombreux !!! 

Message from GS: If you have any Dispobox, please bring them back to the Swiss Post Office (main building on Meyrin Site). 

The questionnaire with the proposals for the Academic Training 2012-2013 is available on the web at the following link:

https://acad-qr.web.cern.ch/

You may express your interest for the different proposals, as well as submit comments or suggestions.

Your feedback is extremely important to tune the programme and keep it of interest for the CERN community.

Academic Training taking place in May - please book your agendas!

From the Indico Academic Training Lecture Regular Programme page date, speaker, subject, web page :

• 21 May - Sebastian Lopienski, "Computer Security: Introduction to information and computer security (1/4)"
• 22 May - Remi Mollon, "Computer Security: Cryptography and authentication (2/4)"
• 23 May - Antonio Perez Perez, "Computer Security: Computer security threats, vulnerabilities and attacks (3/4)"
• 24 May - Stefan Lueders, "Computer Security: Security operations at CERN (4/4)" 
• 30 May - Belmiro Rodrigues Moreira, "Cloud Computing (1/2)"
• 31 May - Belmiro Rodrigues Moreira, "Cloud Computing (2/2)"

The IT DB is pleased to announce a new series of Oracle tutorials with the proposed schedule. Note that these tutorials will take place in the Filtration Plant (Building 222) and that no registration is required.

Monday 4 June

09:00 Oracle Architecture, Przemyslaw Adam Radowiecki
The objective is to go through Oracle database physical and logical structures, highlighting the consequences of some of Oracle's internal design choices for developers of database applications. The presentation defines Oracle-related basic terms and illustrates them based on the database architecture.
The following topics will be discussed:
• Database with its physical and logical structures (tablespace, segment, extent, block, database user, schema, user's quota)
• Single instance (significant memory structures: buffer cache, shared pool)
• Real Application Cluster (RAC)
• Connecting to the database (TNS, database service)
• SQL statement processing (hard and soft parsing, cursor, cursor sharing, execution plan)

10:00 Database and Application Design, Katarzyna Maria Dziedziniewicz-Wojcik
The primary goal of this presentation is to show how to design a scalable application using Oracle that performs. We will start with schema design that allows storing the data in a way that is efficient, scalable and makes those data easily retrievable. In that part focus will be put on ER model and best practices in schema design. Later we will explain in detail SQL statement processing, with a number of tips/and tricks. The last part will talk about building a robust application using privileges, different connection types and a number of other features.

11:00 Database Security, Szymon Jozef Skorupinski & Daniel Gomez Blanco
During the Database Security Tutorial we will focus on Oracle Database security from the developers' point of view. We'll cover a few topics, including authentication, roles and privileges, auditing, encryption and SQL injection attacks.

Tuesday 5 June

09:00 SQL and Advanced SQL, Marcin Blaszczyk
SQL (Structured Query Language) is a programming language designed for managing data in relational database management systems. The aim of the tutorial is to provide an overview of the SQL language basic capabilities and several selected advanced SQL features available in the Oracle Database Management System. The main part of this tutorial will focus on the use of advanced SQL such as: complex queries, analytical functions, set operators, views and temporary tables, materialized views, indexes and partitioning.

10:30 PL/SQL, Zbigniew Baranowski & Stephan Petit
PL/SQL is Oracle's procedural extension of SQL. In this tutorial we will present the basic concepts behind PL/SQL and the general appearance of a PL/SQL program, covering general structure, control statements and basic units of the PL/SQL language.
We will then focus on best scripting practices -things that each developer should know in order to write efficient code and avoid common traps.

Friday 8 June

09:00 Tuning, Luca Canali & Dawid Wojcik & Eric Grancher
In this session, you will learn how to understand what prevents your application from running as fast as you would like (wait event, SQL monitor, Oracle Enterprise Manager, etc.). In the second part, we will share some indications on how to improve the performance (execution plan, table and index statistics, hinting, SQL baseline, etc.).
You will also learn the key points of how to address complex performance issues in a systematic way and to address performance issues in a quantitative way. A few examples and common pitfalls will be presented.

10:30 Oracle tools and Bindings with languages, Mariusz Piorkowski & Others
This tutorial provides an introduction to common Oracle database administrative tools: how they work, how to install and configure them, how efficiently we can use them. We’ll also provide some practice examples of usage. We will cover the following tools: PL/SQL Developer, rlwrap, Benthic Software – (Golden 6.0) and SQL Developer.
The second part of this presentation will address the topic of language bindings, including OCI, OCCI, JAVA, Perl and Python, for example.

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We are very pleased to announce the launch of the new IT website on 10 April 2012!

The aim is to replace many of the existing (and often out-dated) IT sites, and in particular the information content will be actively managed. Content editors have been identified, and have an active responsibility to maintain their pages.

It will take some time to move some of the asociated websites into the new structure, but we believe that deploying the new site now will already bring benefits.

Structure of the site

You will see that the site has been separated IT Staff content from User content. This is to ensure that the right information is clearly targeted to the appropriate audience.

This 'Noticeboard' page that you see directly under 'For IT Staff' will contain administrative and informative notices for staff (eg news relating to travel, meetings, department-wide socials etc).

The rest of the site should be fairly intuitive.

We hope this new site responds better to your needs and helps you find what you want, faster. Please do not hesitate to provide feedback - it will help us improve the site to help you. There is a Feedback link at the bottom of the page; alternatively e-mail it-webmaster@cern.ch and we will get back to you as soon as possible.

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