Geneva, Switzerland What you'll do
You will build, deploy, and maintain the infrastructure supporting the Open Research Europe publishing platform based on Open Journal System (OJS). This includes managing Kubernetes/OpenShift deployments, developing integrations, and ensuring secure, reliable, and scalable operations of the service in close collaboration with the business and editorial operations team responsible for managing the publishing workflow.
Your responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and maintain the Open Research Europe infrastructure using automated CI/CD workflows to manage multiple web and support services
- Work closely with the business and editorial operations team to translate service requirements into technical implementations and ensure smooth operation of the publishing platform.
- Ensure secure, reliable, and scalable operations through monitoring, backups, incident response, and regular performance and security audits.
- Develop and manage integrations with authentication providers, indexers, and other third-party services, and support the migration from the legacy platform to the new system.
- Oversee day-to-day IT service management, including technical user support, supervision of a junior team member, preparation of service documentation, and coordination with internal and external stakeholders.
- Prepare technical documentation and EU project deliverables, and contribute improvements to open-source projects such as OJS and related infrastructure components.
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Your profile
- Proven experience with containerised infrastructure and orchestration tools (Kubernetes or OpenShift), and strong knowledge of system administration databases, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation (e.g. Helm, GitLab CI).
- Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining web platforms such as Open Journal Systems (OJS) or WordPress, including developing integrations and advanced automation scripts in PHP, Python and SQL, and connecting authentication or third-party services.
- Demonstrated experience in IT service management, including monitoring, security auditing, and backup/recovery best practices.
- Excellent communication, documentation, and organisational skills, with experience contributing to technical reports or open-source projects, providing user support, and supervising team members.
- Familiarity with open science principles and prior experience working in EU-funded projects.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience in the field of Computer Science or a related field.
Your skills
- Knowledge of programming techniques and languages: PHP and Python.
- Development of application software.
- Testing, diagnosing and optimization of software.
- Delivers prompt and efficient service taking into account customer needs.
- Ensures that information, procedures and decisions are appropriately documented.
- Contributes to promoting a positive atmosphere in the team through an optimistic and constructive attitude; addresses issues.
- Works conscientiously and reliably; delivers on promises.
- Is able to deal with ambiguous or unpredictable situations.
- Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.
Employment conditions
- Work during nights, Sundays and official holidays, when required by the needs of the Organization.
- Stand-by duty, when required by the needs of the Organization.
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Be sure to meet the eligibility criteria
- You are a national of a CERN Member State or Associate Member State.
- You have relevant qualifications and professional experience.
- If you have previously held a Staff contract at CERN, you will not be eligible for these positions.
- Please pay attention to the additional criteria and requirements for this specific position and mentioned above.
You will need these documents to complete your application
- Your CV (English or French)
- Any document you consider relevant to your application
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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.
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