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An opportunity for a Civil or Geotechnical Engineer is open in the Site and Civil Engineering (SCE) Department to contribute to civil engineering preparation activities within the Future Circular Collider (FCC) Feasibility Study. These preparation activities will have specific focus on the proposed 100 km tunnel. The Feasibility Study will investigate the technical and financial feasibility of such facility. The underground geological and geotechnical site investigations associated with this feasibility study are planned to commence in the very near future.
You will be required to carry out the following tasks:
Visit active sites during mobilisation, site investigation works and reinstatement of the site after works;;
Assist with any permitting/local authority issues that may impede site access for the Contractor
Attend CERN/Contractor/Engineer regular meetings (FR/ENG) including internal meeting minuting;
Quality check borehole logs;
Review daily, weekly and monthly reporting from individual worksites and overall work packages;
Produce condensed internal weekly/monthly reporting;
Enforce onsite Health & Safety and environmental compliance of Contractor;
Contribute and collaborate with other CERN colleagues in progress presentations (FR/ENG);
Guide any external CERN visitors around sites and explain works;
Document management.
The skills and/or technologies you should have and/or know
A general understanding of ground investigations and geophysics;
CERN designs, develops, and operates particle accelerators and experiments for scientific research to understand the fundamental laws of the universe. These activities may generate stray radiation due to the interaction between beams and matter. The radiation detectors installed close to the various beam lines and targets allow CERN to accurately monitor radiation levels. Within the Radiation Protection (RP) Group at CERN, the Instrumentation & Logistics (IL) Section is responsible for the design and the development of this specialised equipment, as well as its installation, commissioning, operation and maintenance.
Radiation monitoring is essential to enable CERN to operate its accelerator complex and related experiments while fulfilling its legal obligations to protect the public, people working on CERN site and the environment. In this stringent context, the RP-IL Section has developed a new generation of radiation monitoring system called CROME (https://crome.web.cern.ch) for CERN Radiation Monitoring Electronics with very challenging performances and reliability requirements.
Within the framework of this development activity, the RP-IL Section has designed two complementary electronics:
1. A new generation of ASIC front-end with specific requirements linked to radiation protection detectors. This circuit is a ten-decade silicon CMOS current to frequency converter capable of measuring a current over a wide range from 2fA to 20 µA;
2. A modular and reconfigurable electronics based on a heterogeneous multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC) for both real-time control and complex computation.
You will work among a team of engineers and technicians to:
Consolidate CROME Firmware and development ecosystem;
Adapt the MPSoC architecture to perform the required communication and calculations;
Characterise newly designed system;
Perform typical functional and performance tests.
The skills and/or technologies you should have and/or know:
VHDL coding, simulation and synthesis with advanced knowledge of HDL design
C/C++ coding
Linux embedded OS
GitLab CI/CD
luency in English, the ability to work in French would be an advantage.
You will join a small team within the occupational Health & Safety and Environmental protection (HSE) Unit (https://hse.cern), to develop material in different formats and channels to disseminate timely information to the CERN Community. You will also play a key role in the production of the public-facing CERN Environment biennial report (https://hse.cern/environment-report), aligned with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards.
Working closely with the HSE Communications & Environment Coordinator, you will support internal and external communications initiatives spanning the HSE Unit's activities, including:
Contributing to the production of different types of content and to the choice of appropriate communications channels (written, media, web) in line with the HSE communications plan;
Collaborating with CERN services, including the audiovisual- and design teams, for the development of material to support communications.
Updating the HSE unit website content and proposing improvements and upgrades in collaboration with the HSE website coordinator and the HSE Groups.
Producing short videos to complement written and photo-based communications.
Proposing and writing articles for the CERN Community Bulletin and other publications on matters relevant to HSE activities.
Participating in the process, development and production of the biennial CERN environment report in alignment with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards: this includes research, gathering and analysing relevant information and discussion with relevant stakeholders both inside and outside CERN.
The skills and/or technologies you should have and/or know:
Competence in communicating scientific and technical information in various formats and different channels (online, media, web).
A proven ability to research, absorb, consolidate and simplify complex information for dissemination to different audiences and contexts.
Excellent English writing skills, for both short- and long- content from articles and newsletters to comprehensive reports.
Knowledge of basic video production and editing.
Knowledge of Web content management (e.g. Drupal or equivalent).
Knowledge of producing designs and visual material (e.g. Canva or equivalent) would be an advantage.
With CERN IT commissioning a new data centre, the scale of the resources to manage and the complexity of the infrastructure to ensure business continuity and disaster recovery will increase. As a member of the CERN IT cloud infrastructure service, you will join the service operations team and help providing physical and virtual resources to services and experiments via our OpenStack deployment.
Specifically, you will:
Contribute to the operation and improvement of the existing OpenStack private cloud deployment, managing close to 10'000 servers in multiple locations.
Develop solutions to account resources or to increase the private cloud service's availability.
Further enhance the service's automation to ensure scalability and manageability.
You overall goal will be to make the new setup a seamless experience for the CERN users.
The skills and/or technologies you should have and/or know:
Basic knowledge of git, bash & Python;
Prior DevOps experience would be an asset;
Prior knowledge of virtualisation technologies (OpenStack, quemu/kvm/libvirt) would be an asset.
luency in English, the ability to work in French would be an advantage.
Join the CERN IT Platforms Group to help shape the future of the Kubernetes services hosting our core business and scientific computing use cases. You will have a key role in supporting the ongoing transition to a cloud native infrastructure in the different groups at CERN.
You will:
Be responsible for the container/OCI registry at CERN and ensure the efficient distribution of different types of artifacts to services and large scale computing systems.
Ensure appropriate integration of our platforms with the CERN Accelerator and Control Systems and support the transition of our air gapped beam controls to cloud native deployments.
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.
The skills and/or technologies you should have and/or know:
Good knowledge of cloud native technologies, particularly Kubernetes. CKA/CKS certification is a plus.
Experience with Linux and Linux system administration.
Experience with security tool sets.
luency in English, the ability to work in French would be an advantage.
The Data Integration and Reporting (DIR) service in the CERN IT Department deploys, operates and supports Pentaho Business Intelligence applications and technologies.
If you are a DevOps Engineer interested in further developing your IT skills in our team there are plenty of chances to use your strengths and expand your knowledge of many leading IT technologies.
In our team every member:
learns all the technologies used;
gets involved in each component of our software stack;
manages the service configuration, deployment and operations;
contributes to the evolution and improvement of the service;
takes part in Agile review and planning activities;
follows quality assurance, testing and IT security practices;
provides user support to major business units of CERN management, administration and engineering.
Here are some of the main IT skills and technologies that we currently use:
Are you a talented software engineer, passionate about developing Web applications using state-of-the-art UX/UI technology? Do you enjoy designing scalable back-end systems for communication systems? Do you enjoy working on several layers of the software stack? Work with us to develop and evolve CERN's advanced Network and Telecom infrastructure providing automation solutions for its effective management!
The Communication Systems (CS) Group is responsible for all aspects of network and telephony provision at CERN. We support a campus network (cabled and Wi-Fi) with over 50,000 connected devices, a 5Tb/s non-blocking switching fabric for a data centre with over 10,000 servers, more than 4,000 of which with 10Gb/s interfaces, and external connections including multiple trans-border 100Gb/s circuits. The CS group also operates its own VoIP telephony system, dedicated mobile telephony services (6500 subscriptions), a TETRA digital radio system (500 terminals) and a LoRaWAN network.
As a member of the Communication Tools (CT) Section in the CS Group, you will join a team of passionate software engineers in charge of the design, development and maintenance of the software suite used to model, configure, support and manage the CERN networks and telecom infrastructures.
Your main functions will include:
Maintain and further develop the IT/CS Web interfaces used by all CERN users to request network/telephony changes.
Together with the other members of the team, participate in the design and development of new modules for the internal IT/CS network and telecom management framework, such as network and IP telephony automation/provisioning.
Promote and develop DevOps processes and tools to further increase the automation and the quality of the produced software.
Propose and implement changes in our database model and network APIs in order to support service integration solutions in the CERN data centers.
Stay up to date on latest software technology trends.
The skills and/or technologies you should have and/or know:
Strong knowledge of Java, Spring Boot, REST, modern JavaScript.
Highly desired: AngularJS, UX/UI design (SASS/CSS) and SQL (Oracle and PL/SQL).
luency in English, the ability to work in French would be an advantage.
Indico is a web-based event management system which allows thousands of
people around the world to conduct conferences and meetings, sharing
materials and collaborating in an easy way. Indico is Open Source, developed
at CERN by an international team of passionate developers. It is used by CERN
and 200+ other institutes world wide, including the United Nations.
As part of the team, you will work on all parts of developing and maintaining the Indico
software and polishing/improving integrations we manage for other communities using
Indico, such as JACoW (https://www.jacow.org).
During your job, you will:
Actively contribute to a large Open Source project on GitHub;
Work closely with developers, prototyping solutions and iterating on them in an agile environment;
Maintain code repositories and take part in code reviews;
Potentially work on DevOps infrastructure (OpenStack/Puppet and Docker/OpenShift);
Engage with users as part of the Indico support rota.
The skills and/or technologies you should have and/or know:
Python, JavaScript, React, Git;
Basic DevOps knowledge (a plus);
Flask (a plus), SQLAlchemy (a plus), PostgreSQL (a plus), GitHub (a plus);
Maintaining Open Source projects (a plus).
luency in English, the ability to work in French would be an advantage.
You will join a dynamic team of IT engineers who manage over 500 servers, support over 10,000 Windows and 3,000 Mac endpoint devices, and provide over 100 software applications to the CERN user community.
As Endpoint Security and Config Engineer, you will be responsible for:
Managing endpoint device security, deploying and operating Antivirus and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) for Windows and macOS,
Reviewing and extending the existing set of security configurations for Windows devices,
Deploying and managing "Hardened PC" configurations to selected areas of the Organization,
Conducting security audits and improvements for client-server protocols and security ciphers,
Implementing Microsoft .net and PowerShell tools to support tighter security management,
Configuring and maintaining endpoint devices and application installation packages.
The skills and/or technologies you should have and/or know:
Interest in security and config management.
Knowledge of Microsoft .net and PowerShell.
Experience in C#, SQL, Puppet, Grafana, Git, and Docker will be a plus.
Good communication skills.
luency in English, the ability to work in French would be an advantage.
You will join a dynamic team of IT engineers who manage over 500 servers, support over 10,000 Windows and 3,000 Mac endpoint devices, and provide over 100 software applications to the CERN user community.
As Windows Server and Database Administrator, you will be responsible for:
Deploying and maintaining Windows Server and Microsoft SQL Server environments,
Analysing and optimizing performance of Microsoft SQL Server environments,
Implementing monitoring tools and procedures to ensure system availability and performance,
Implementing business continuity and disaster recovery plans,
Moving workloads to the cloud,
Managing Windows Server services such as PLM, Terminal Services, license servers, print server, WSUS, Active Directory,
Developing and maintaining configuration management tools such as MECM, Puppet, or PowerShell DSC.
Implementing Microsoft .net and PowerShell service management tools.
The skills and/or technologies you should have and/or know:
Interest in systems administration
Programming skills in .Net and PowerShell.
Experience in C#, SQL, Puppet, Grafana, Git, Docker and commercial clouds will be a plus.
Good communication skills.
luency in English, the ability to work in French would be an advantage.