The Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is one of the most dynamic university campuses in Europe and ranks among the top 20 universities worldwide. The EPFL employs 6,000 people supporting the three main missions of the institutions: education, research and innovation. The EPFL campus offers an exceptional working environment at the heart of a community of 16,000 people, including over 10,000 students and 3,500 researchers from 120 different countries.

Site Reliability Engineer (W/M)

Your mission :

The EPFL Blue Brain Project (BBP), situated on the Campus Biotech in Geneva, Switzerland, applies advanced high-performance computing to the challenge of understanding the structure and function of the mammalian brain in health and disease. We are now looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer (W/M) to work on our High-Performance Computing (HPC) and other mission-critical IT systems.Main duties and responsibilities include :

We offer e.g. following challenges:

• Ensuring reliable product launches and upgrades upon our 1000+ node HPC cluster, Spectrum Scale, CEPH, OpenStack, OpenShift, VMware and NetApp with the help of modern sw development, configuration management, CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code approaches


• Improving IT service reliability for our critically important IT services by implementing SRE best practices e.g. for availability, performance, utilisation, emergency response and capacity planning


• Developing monitoring, logging and metrics tools to embrace risks


• Automating IT processes - in order to get rid of toil, technical debt and manual work - using modern software engineering practices


• Contributing to IT security e.g. by establishing clever update & patching methodologies.

Your profile :

We expect you to have strong experience in the following areas:

• Linux (e.g. RedHat/CentOS, Ubuntu) in production server environments


• Physical, virtualized and containerized infrastructure


• Network concepts (e.g. IP routing, DNS, HA)


• Configuration & provisioning tools (e.g. Puppet, Ansible, Foreman)


• Programming and scripting (e.g. Python, Ruby, bash).

We count as advantage your possible experience with:

• Implementing / operating large-scale storage systems, filesystems and data archiving


• Operating large scale, Linux-based hardware infrastructure


• Operating data centre networks built on Ethernet or InfiniBand


• Operating HPC systems and software (e.g. Slurm, cluster managers)


• Architecting, implementing & monitoring secure IT infrastructure


• Stakeholder relationships, team leadership & management.

Our desired candidate would have:

• Bachelor or Master degree in computer science - or similar working experience


• Detail-oriented, cautious & professional working practices


• Experience managing and completing large scale IT projects


• Experience of e.g. kernel performance tuning & debugging of complex IT problems


• Interest to improve IT operations, IT processes and SRE best practices


• Experience working in collaborative and multi-cultural environments


• Proven ability to work both independently and in team-based environments


• Fluent communication in English (written and spoken).

We offer :

• An internationally recognized research project using state-of-the-art HPC infrastructure


• A dynamic, inter-disciplinary and international working environment in picturesque Geneva


• An opportunity to get your hands dirty with new technologies as they emerge.

Start date :

As soon as possible

Term of employment :

Unlimited (CDI)Duration :

Negotiable. 1 year CDD (renewable) or CDI



Contact :

Please provide your CV and a cover letter (in English) in PDF format.Remark :

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