Job Description
Your responsibilities
Are you ready to contribute to one of the world's largest scientific communities?
Passionate about cloud-native platforms and cutting-edge infrastructure? This is your chance to be part of CERN's Platforms Infrastructure team, supporting critical services and repositories that power campus service, continuous integration, machine learning, and much more.
You will:
- Be responsible for the container/OCI registry at CERN and ensure the efficient distribution of different types of artefacts to services and large scale computing systems.
- Support a large number of communities at CERN helping them with their transition to cloud native deployments. Work together with the LHC experiments and the CERN Accelerator and Control Systems teams supporting their services and workloads.
- Work closely with multiple upstream communities such as Kubernetes, Harbor and other projects in the cloud native ecosystem, ensuring appropriate integration and support for the different use cases from CERN communities.
Your profile
Skills:
- Knowledge of docker and similar OCI/container image management tools (podman, skopeo, buildah);
- Good knowledge of cloud native technologies, particularly Kubernetes. CKA/CKS certification is a plus;
- Experience with Linux and Linux system administration;
- Spoken and written English or French, with a commitment to learn the basics of the other language.
Eligibility criteria:
- You are a national of a CERN Member or Associate Member State.
- By the application deadline, you have a maximum of two years of professional experience since graduation in Software Engineering (or a related field) and your highest educational qualification is either a Bachelor's or Master's degree.
- You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
- Applicants without University degree are not eligible.
- Applicants with a PhD are not eligible.
Additional Information
Job closing date: 04.09.2025 at 23:59 CEST.
Contract duration: 24 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum.
Working hours: 40 hours per week
Target start date: 01-December-2025
Job reference: IT-CD-PI-2025-149-GRAE
Field of work: Software Engineering and IT
What we offer
- A monthly stipend ranging between 5196 and 5716 Swiss Francs (net of tax).
- Coverage by CERN's comprehensive health scheme (for yourself, your spouse and children), and membership of the CERN Pension Fund.
- Depending on your individual circumstances: installation grant; family, child and infant allowances; payment of travel expenses at the beginning and end of contract.
- 30 days of paid leave per year.
- On-the-job and formal training at CERN as well as in-house language courses for English and/or French.
About us
At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. Using the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments, they study the basic constituents of matter - fundamental particles that are made to collide together at close to the speed of light. The process gives physicists clues about how particles interact, and provides insights into the fundamental laws of nature. Find out more on http://home.cern.
Diversity has been an integral part of CERN's mission since its foundation and is an established value of the Organization. Employing a diverse workforce is central to our success.
