A competitive salary (tax free), increasing in line with your years of relevant experience.
As a Distributed Storage Engineer, you will contribute to the design, evolution, and operation of large-scale, distributed critical storage services for the CERN cloud and computing infrastructures. You will join a team to work with open-source Ceph-based block, object, and filesystem solutions (including CephFS and NFS integrations), ensuring high availability, performance, and resilience across multi-datacenter environments. Your role will involve system-wide troubleshooting in a distributed Linux-based environment and optimising storage architectures for demanding workloads. You will use your C++ software development skills to help identify and troubleshoot issues with the Ceph code base and to contribute code improvements to the upstream open-source Ceph project when necessary. You will have opportunities to learn and contribute to improving automation, deployment, and observability, aligned with modern DevOps practices, to participate in inspiring projects and new technologies such as storage for HPC and AI/ML and to engage with our international partners, participating to conferences and workshops.
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