DevOps Engineer for GitLab (IT-PW-WA-2025-126-GRAE)

Job Description

Your responsibilities

The IT Web and Authoring section of the IT-PW group provides services for CERN's project collaboration, as well as software development tools for version control such as GitLab.

You are a SRE / DevOps Engineer interested in contributing to the enhancement of the CERN GitLab infrastructure.

By joining us, you will:

• Ensure the smooth operation, maintenance, and continuous evolution of the service.
• Design, implement, and manage complex CI/CD pipelines within GitLab, including Runners, DAST/SAST, dependency scanning, container registries, and environment management.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts (e.g., Python, Bash) to streamline software builds, testing, deployments, and infrastructure provisioning.
• Work with IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tools (e.g., Terraform / OpenTofu) to manage and provision on-premise cloud infrastructures.
• Integrate and configure monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack) to ensure environments health and performance.
• Identify areas for improvement and desirable new functionality with the GitLab user community.
• Further integrate GitLab with the CERN computing environment, driving DevSecOps adoption and incorporating CERN Security Team's recommendations to integrate security initiatives at every stage of the SDLC (software development lifecyle).
• Collaborate closely with development teams, providing support to integrate their applications with CI/CD pipelines, actively listening to their needs, troubleshooting issues, and providing clear, expert guidance on GitLab best practices to ensure a great user experience.

Your profile

Skills:

• DevOps: Kubernetes container orchestration, Git, CI/CD, Bash, Terraform.
• Programming/software development: knowledge of Helm, Python; knowledge of Ruby and/or Go would be an asset.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with a proactive mindset to identify challenges and drive innovative solutions.
• Good communication and collaboration skills, with ability to work effectively within cross-functional teams.
• Strong commitment to user satisfaction, actively seeking feedback and collaborating with users to continuously improve services.
• Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.

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 Computer 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: 07.08.2025 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-October-2025

Job reference: IT-PW-WA-2025-126-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.