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