Work with us
The ATLAS TDAQ SysAdmins team is often searching for new team members and collaborators, with experience in Linux systems administration, software development and design.

As a general rule, as a CERN Project Associate you will need to have already an affiliation with an institute that is part of the ATLAS Collaboration, or has some collaboration agreement with ATLAS and/or with CERN (listed in the GrayBook).

If you are interested, you can fill this questionnaire and then contact us for information on current opportunities and further details.

Interesting skills
In the TDAQ SysAdmins team we do many different things, and knowing some of these things may be useful:
Systems Management Network
  • Configuration Management:
    Puppet, Anaconda/Kickstart
  • Authentication:
    LDAP, Kerberos, PAM
  • Monitoring:
    Icinga, Ganglia, SNMP, IPMI
  • Virtual Machines - KVM
  • Filesystems:
    Ext[234], XFS, NFS, AFS
  • DHCP, PXE, DNS, NTP...
  • basic TCP/IP
  • debugging: tracing, tcpdump/wireshark, ethtool, performance counters etc
  • VLANs
  • bonding, trunking
  • iptables firewalls
  • network for Virtual Machines - bridging etc
Hardware Development
  • server-class hardware in general
  • IPMI
  • RAID:
    LSI, 3ware, Adaptec
  • SMART
  • Debug/Profiling:
    strace, gdb, gprof, oProfile, ValGrind
  • Languages:
    Puppet DSL, bash, python, perl, php, ruby, C, Java, JavaScript
  • Versioning:
    SubVersion, Git
  • Databases: MySQL
  • Code design: Object oriented concepts, design patterns, refactoring...
Specialties
  • Cloud: OpenStack
  • Storage: NetApp Data OnTap 8, Cluster Mode (cDOT)
  • Log management: Splunk, ElasticSearch
  • Security: Samhain, RKHunter, Nessus, ClamAV, web scanners
  • Web: Apache, Squid, HTML, CSS