CERN
Nuclear Research
PlatformEngineer(RCSSISTS2025272LD)
“Platform Engineer (RCS-SIS-TS-2025-272-LD) at CERN. Skills: GitOps, ArgoCD, Kustomize, Helm, Kubernetes, Observability, AI infrastructure. Support development teams with best practices, deployment models, observability, and platform tooling. Ensure smooth integration and reliable production operations”
Industry & Context.
Testing solutions for long-term suitability; Cross-checking with all concerned before implementation
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
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Master's degree or equivalent relevant experience in the field of Computer Science or a related field, Expertise with GitOps and ArgoCD, Kustomize and Helm (chart development/maintenance), Git proficiency and GitHub repo/organization management, Operation of medium-to-large production Kubernetes clusters, Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), Grafana dashboard creation and maintenance, OpenSearch for logs (indices, templates), HAproxy/Kubernetes ingress (stick tables, rate-limiting, traffic shaping), AI infrastructure: mCP servers, model serving, ML workflows (Kubeflow), vector databases, embedding services, model management, Administration of computing systems: Operating medium-to-large Kubernetes clusters using GitOps (ArgoCD/Kustomize), Knowledge and application of software life-cycle tools and procedures: Automating CI/CD pipelines (Git, Helm), Installation, operation and maintenance (preventive and corrective) of computing systems: Operating observability and ingress systems (Grafana/OpenSearch/HAProxy), Knowledge of system configuration tools: Defining and maintaining configurations with Helm, Kustomize and IaC, Development of system software (drivers, system configuration and monitoring, etc. ): AI infrastructure operations (MCP, model serving, Kubeflow, vector DB)
Nice to Have
Possibility to extend your contract up to 8 years + eligibility for indefinite contract tenure
What You'll Do.
Support development teams with best practices
Ensure smooth integration and reliable production operations
Provide and maintain developer tooling (templates
development environments
Streamline development
Operate and improve production services (INSPIRE
scalability of production services
Participate in monitoring
and service lifecycle management
Lead and contribute to postmortems
Conduct structured incident analysis
Drive reliability improvements
Design and automate platform components
Improve reproducibility and reduce operational overhead
Prototype and evaluate new technologies (cloud-native tooling
AI-related infrastructure)
Integrate new technologies when beneficial
Enhance developer experience
Improve documentation
self-service capabilities
and platform usability
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Support development teams; Close collaboration with developers; Cross-checking with all concerned before implementation
Communication Scope
Expressing opinions, ideas and suggestions with conviction and in a logical/structured keeping to the point
Process & Methodology
Setting priorities, Planning tasks with results in mind
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