# Database Infrastructure Engineer (IT-DA-DB-2026-174-LD)

At CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists and engineers are probing the fundamental structure of the universe. Using the world's largest and most complex scientific instruments, they study the basic constituents of matter - fundamental particles that are made to collide together at close to the speed of light. The process gives physicists clues about how particles interact, and provides insights into the fundamental laws of nature. Introduction: You will join a small team of experts managing the PostgreSQL and MySQL databases supporting the LHC experiments, accelerator operations and organisation-wide services. You will help build and automate a modern, highly available database platform, with training and mentoring to grow your skills. Functions: As a Database Infrastructure Engineer in the Databases and Analytics Group, your main activities will consist of: Operate and improve production PostgreSQL (and MySQL) databases: troubleshooting, upgrades, migrations, patching and scaling. Help design, deploy and run highly available database setups with automated failover. Automate provisioning, configuration and routine operations using scripting and infrastru

- **Id**: 3961789
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/cern-database-infrastructure-engineer-it-da-db-2026-174-ld-2>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Geneva, Switzerland
- **Countries**: CH
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: yes
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T08:10:51Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T17:08:11Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6258
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Health insurance
- **Relocation offered**: yes
- **Industries**: Research Institutes

## Company

- **Id**: 4055
- **Name**: CERN
- **Domain**: home.cern
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/cern>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: SmartRecruiters

## Salary

- **Min**: 9236
- **Currency**: CHF
- **Period**: month
- **Usd annual**: 135168

## Technologies

- **Consul** — Optional: no
- **HAProxy** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Hiring locations

- **Switzerland** — Iso: CH; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T12:05:59Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 22
- **Reasons**: conf:3, win:early, comp:junior
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T20:46:01Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 135168
- **Is top pay**: yes

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