Kubernetes Engineer (IT-CD-PI-2025-47-GRAE)

Job Description

Your responsibilities

Are you excited by the challenge of optimizing GPU and accelerator access at scale? Do you thrive on solving complex problems in high-performance computing and machine learning. Join CERN's Platforms Infrastructure team and play a key role in maximizing the efficiency and impact of accelerator devices (GPUs and beyond) for cutting-edge scientific computing!

As part of our team, you will:

• Build and manage a centralized GPU resource pool, ensuring fair and efficient allocation through quotas, pre-emption, and backfilling strategies.
• Collaborate and integrate with teams across CERN IT (notebooks, CI/CD, machine learning, batch services, and more) to streamline GPU accessibility and usability.
• Innovate and optimize by researching and implementing state-of-the-art GPU sharing solutions tailored to diverse workloads.

This is a great chance to push the boundaries of computing at scale in one of the world's most exciting scientific environments!

Skills

• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud native tools and ecosystem (CKA is a plus)
• Experience with GPUs and other hardware accelerators
• Experience with Linux and cloud native system administration

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 Computing Engineering, Computer Science (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: 31st March at 12:00 AM (midnight) CET.

Contract duration: 24 months, with a possible extension up to 36 months maximum.

Working hours: 40 hours per week

Target start date: 01-June-2025

Job reference: IT-CD-PI-2025-47-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.

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