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.

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