Database Platform Engineer
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Geneva
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CERN recherche un Ingénieur de Plateforme de Base de Données à Genève.
Tâches
- Gérer le service de bases de données sur demande (DBOD).
- Contribuer à l'évolution de l'interface utilisateur avec Angular.
- Participer à la configuration et à la conception du service.
Compétences
- Diplôme en informatique ou en physique, expérience en bases de données.
- Maîtrise de MySQL et PostgreSQL, compétences en Python.
- Connaissances en administration de systèmes et outils de configuration.
Database Platform Engineer
CERN
Workplace
Geneva
- Lake Geneva region - Switzerland
Category
Computer Science | Physics
Position
Engineer / Technician
Published
16 April 2026
Closing Date
7 May 2026
Geneva, Switzerland IT-DA-DB-2026-111-GRAE Ideal start date: 01/07/2026
Before 07/05/2026 at 23:59 (Geneva Time)
What you’ll do
Join CERN’s Database and Analytics group to operate and support the Database on Demand (DBOD) service, used by many IT services, and across CERN’s experimental programme. The DBOD service provides more than one thousand MySQL, PostgreSQL, and InfluxDB instances, through multiple lifecycle environments, offering to its users administrative functionality and features such as configuration management, monitoring, backup and recovery, replication, and high availability.
Your responsibilities
- As an early-career professional working in the Database Services (DB) team, you will contribute to the administration of the instances hosted in the DBOD service.
- You will participate in the evolution of the user interface (based on Angular and Flask).
- Participate in the service configuration and architecture design, database upgrades and patches campaigns.
- Work with hardware migrations, monitoring of systems health and performance to ensure high levels of performance, availability and security.
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Let’s make a quick check about
Your profile
- Experience working with MySQL, PostgreSQL, or TimescaleDB databases.
- Experience with SQL, Unix shell script and Python.
- Knowledge of Linux operating system.
- Knowledge of service administration and configuration tools like Puppet.
Your skills
- Familiarity with large-scale and high-availability database environments.
- Proficiency with Angular and Flask.
- Knowledge and understanding of containerisation/
container orchestration.
- Knowledge of the ELK stack.
Ideal start date:
01/07/2026
Contract duration (in months):
24
Job flexibility:
Hybrid
Global Benefits
at CERN
- A monthly stipend between 5266-5793 Swiss Francs per month (tax free) depending on your degree.
- 30 days of paid leave per year plus 2 weeks annual closure.
- Coverage by CERN’s comprehensive health insurance scheme (for yourself, your spouse and children), and membership of the CERN Pension Fund.
- Family, child and infant monthly allowances depending on your individual circumstances.
- A relocation package (installation grant and travel expenses) depending on your individual circumstances.
- Possibility to extend your contract up to 36 months.
- On-the-job and formal training including language classes.
Let’s get you
ready
Be sure to meet the eligibility criteria
- You are a national of a CERN Member State or Associate Member State . Currently, we cannot consider applications from Pakistani and Lithuanian nationals for positions with a 2026 start date, as the ceiling defined under Article II.5 of the Associate Membership Agreement has been reached.
- By the application deadline, you have a maximum of 2 years of professional experience since graduation in the respective field and your highest educational qualification is either a bachelor’s or master’s degree. You must have a university degree and can’t hold a PhD.
- You have never had a CERN fellow or graduate contract before.
- Please pay attention to the additional criteria and requirements for this specific position and mentioned above.
You will need these documents to complete your application
- Your CV (English or French)
- A copy of your most relevant diploma or a certificate of achievement from your school (if you don’t yet have your paper diploma)
- Any document you consider relevant to your application
Your CERN
Department
The IT Department designs, operates, and evolves CERN’s core computing and digital infrastructure.
It provides the large-scale data processing, storage, networking, and collaboration services that enable CERN’s scientific programme. The Department supports the LHC and non-LHC experiments, accelerator systems, and the wider CERN community, while advancing new computing technologies through research, development, and strategic partnerships.
of CERN
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At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, we are pushing the frontiers of science and technology. Our groundbreaking work brings together not only physicists but also a diverse range of professionals from engineering, technical, scientific, and administrative fields. Together, we foster an environment where innovation and collaboration thrive.
Every day, we face exciting new challenges and opportunities to contribute to cutting-edge research that shapes our understanding of the universe. We meet these challenges through the diverse perspectives within our teams, ensuring every contribution is valued and driving our shared sense of inclusion and purpose. Diversity is a core value of CERN since its foundation, and it remains central to our mission and continued success.
If you are ready to be part of a dynamic, inclusive community pushing the boundaries of knowledge, CERN is the place where your curiosity and skills can thrive. Be part of our mission to uncover what lies at the heart of the universe!
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