Bare Metal OpenStack Engineer (IT-CD-CLI-2026-179-GRAE)
Core
Manage the life-cycle of physical servers (delivery, burn-in, provisioning, phase-out) for a fleet of 10,000 nodes using OpenStack Ironic within CERN's cloud infrastructure.
Role type
Mid-level IC bare metal infrastructure engineer
Builds
OpenStack-based cloud infrastructure for CERN and LHC experiment services
Domain
Scientific research / High-performance computing / Cloud infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Linux administration, Python scripting, Git version control, OpenStack Ironic, BMC protocols (IPMI, Redfish), configuration management (Puppet/Ansible)
Preferred skills
Open-source contributions, hardware provisioning workflows
Responsibilities
Maintain and develop the bare metal life-cycle management framework; Integrate new server deliveries and provision nodes; Contribute to upstream OpenStack/Ironic code base; Collaborate on automation and tooling improvements
Seniority
Junior to Mid-level, hands-on IC
