DevOps Science Engineer for the construction of data centres at observatories

DevOps Science Engineer for the construction of data centres at observatories

Datum: 1 november, 2025 Tid: 11:59

Placering: DESY

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DESY, with more than 2900 employees at its two locations in Hamburg and Zeuthen, is one of the world's leading research centres. Its research focuses on decoding the structure and function of matter, from the smallest particles of the universe to the building blocks of life. In this way, DESY contributes to solving the major questions and urgent challenges facing science, society and industry. With its ultramodern research infrastructure, its interdisciplinary research platforms and its international networks, DESY offers a highly attractive working environment in the fields of science, technology and administration as well as for the education of highly qualified young scientists.

A new onsite data centre is being set up for the CTAO (Cherenkov Telscope Array Observatory) astroparticle observatory at two locations in La Palma and Chile.

The data centre at DESY, Zeuthen with 22,000TB storage, 15,000 cores, 120 GPUs and more than 1,000 servers will take on this task with your support and will also operate these data centres remotely with local support after the construction phase.

Be part of creating completely new data centres and enabling science to take a step forward.

About your role:

• Data and software engineering for the adaptation, project planning and implementation of the required software
• Recording the requirements of the experiment
• Evaluation of different alternatives and presentation of the results to the experiments
• Automated configuration and disaster recovery of both the base installation and the application data
• Support for developers in integrating the developed software into a standardized release and deployment process
• Support of developers in the definition of monitoring points in the developed software
• Operate applications that support software development
• Planning, implementation and maintenance of the CTA onsite data centres
• Installation from scratch of a complete data centre with among other things, distributed storage, batch computing
• Monitoring and alerting systems
• Automation of the necessary software from the operating system to infrastructure services and monitoring
• Roll‑out and monitoring of operating system updates