OpenStack Cloud Engineer (IT-CD-CLI-2026-180-GRAE) — CERN
- Location
- Geneva
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- Yesterday
Role overview
Are you passionate about cloud infrastructure and curious about how large-scale services are operated and evolved?
Join CERN's IT Cloud team and help run and develop the OpenStack-based cloud infrastructure that underpins most CERN and LHC experiment services.
In this role, you will work on the systems and software that provide compute, storage, networking and automation capabilities to thousands of users across the organisation.
- Are you passionate about cloud infrastructure and curious about how large-scale services are operated and evolved?
- Join CERN's IT Cloud team and help run and develop the OpenStack-based cloud infrastructure that underpins most CERN and LHC experiment services.
- Your responsibilities
- Run and help evolve CERN IT's OpenStack-based cloud infrastructure.
- Experience administering or working with Linux systems in a server or data-centre environment.
Main responsibilities
- Your responsibilities
- Run and help evolve CERN IT's OpenStack-based cloud infrastructure.
- Contribute to the operation and development of cloud services, including compute, storage, networking and related infrastructure components.
- Develop and maintain automation and tooling using Python and configuration management systems.
- Work closely with other IT teams and user communities to design and integrate new capabilities and services.
- Contribute bug fixes and improvements upstream, leveraging CERN's strong links with the OpenStack open-source community.
- Participate in troubleshooting and performance optimisation of large-scale distributed systems.
- Further enhance the service's automation to ensure scalability and manageability.
Key requirements
- Experience administering or working with Linux systems in a server or data-centre environment.
Application process
- Experience writing Python scripts or applications for automation or systems tasks.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms, virtualisation technologies or distributed systems is a plus.
- Experience with configuration management tools such as Puppet or Ansible is a plus.
- Experience with container technologies, CI/CD systems or software-defined networking is a plus.
- Contributions to open-source projects or upstream communities are a plus. Skills
- Strong knowledge of the Linux operating system.
- Experience with git version control.
- Programming experience in Python.
Company and context
- At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, we are pushing the frontiers of science and technology.
- Our groundbreaking work brings together not only physicists but also a diverse range of professionals from engineering, technical, scientific, and administrative fields.
- Together, we foster an environment where innovation and collaboration thrive.
- Every day, we face exciting new challenges and opportunities to contribute to cutting-edge research that shapes our understanding of the universe.
- We meet these challenges through the diverse perspectives within our teams, ensuring every contribution is valued and driving our shared sense of inclusion and purpose.
- Diversity is a core value of CERN since its foundation, and it remains central to our mission and continued success.
- If you are ready to be part of a dynamic, inclusive community pushing the boundaries of knowledge, CERN is the place where your curiosity and skills can thrive.
- Be part of our mission to uncover what lies at the heart of the universe!
- TAKE PART!
- More information about us, here: careers.cern
Additional details
- If you enjoy solving complex technical challenges, contributing to open-source software, and working with infrastructure at scale, come join us!
- Contributions to open-source projects or upstream communities are a plus.
- Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French. Eligibility criteria:
- Contract duration: 24 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum. Working hours: 40 hours per week Job flexibility: Hybrid Target start date: 01-November-2026 Job reference: IT-CD-CLI-2026-180-GRAE Field of work: Software Engineering and IT Benchmark job: 200020 Computing Engineer
Notes and original content
- Your profile
- Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.
- Eligibility criteria:
- Contract duration: 24 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum.
- Working hours: 40 hours per week
- Job flexibility: Hybrid
- Target start date: 01-November-2026
- Job reference: IT-CD-CLI-2026-180-GRAE
- Field of work: Software Engineering and IT
- Benchmark job: 200020
Questions about this listing
What salary does CERN offer for this role?
CERN lists CHF 60'500 - 91'500 gross per year for this position in Geneva. This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does CERN offer?
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