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.