Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

**Job Reference**: - 616_25_OP_DM_CIE **Position**: - Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (OpenStack/Data Services) - AI4S **Closing Date**: - Friday, 31 October, 2025 **Reference**: 616_25_OP_DM_CIE **Job title**: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (OpenStack/Data Services) - AI4S **About BSC** - The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for EuroHPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 1000 staff from 60 countries. Look at the BSC experience: BSC-CNS YouTube Channel Let's stay connected with BSC Folks We promote Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, fostering an environment where each and every one of us is appreciated for who we are, regardless of our differences. **Context And Mission** The funding for these actions/fellowships and contracts comes from the European Union Recovery and Resilience Facility - Next Generation, within the framework of the General Invitation by the public business entity Red.es to participate in the talent attraction and retention programs within Investment 4 of Component 19 of the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan. "La financiación de estas actuaciones/becas y contratos, procede del Mecanismo de Recuperación y Resiliencia de la Unión Europea-Next Generation, en el marco de la Invitación General de la entidad pública empresarial Red.es para participar en los programas de atracción y retención del talento dentro de la Inversión 4 del Componente 19 del Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia. **Key Duties** - Manage and maintain OpenStack infrastructure, provide support to Users in implementing their projects in OpenStack. - Monitor and troubleshoot to ensure high availability of data management services. - Configure, manage and optimize data services running in OpenStack. - Implement best practices for big data processing and security. - Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitLab. - Provide technical support and guidance to BSC support teams and Users for configuring and adopting BSC data services. - Introduce AI tools to improve and optimize the data services and the User experience. - Design and direct projects, for the growth of the current Data Management services at BSC, in collaboration with the Data Managers of the BSC Departments. - Contribute to the writing of papers, reports, documentation and funding proposals. - Coordinate and supervise the work of other engineers for the realization of the projects of the technical data management team. **Requirements**: - Education - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Informatics or related fields. - Master degree in Data Science or related topics would be a plus. - Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience - Experience with OpenStack. - Experience with IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible). - Good understanding of networking and security. - Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab). - Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience - Familiarity with Docker, Prometheus, Grafana. - Knowledge of agile and DevOps practices. - Professional experience in frontend services design - Fluent written and verbal communication in English. - Fluent written and verbal communication in Spanish. - Competences - Strong scripting and problem-solving skills. - Ability to work independently and in a team to complete tasks on schedule. - Skills on engineering teams coordination, tasks planning and reporting. **Conditions** - The position will be located at BSC within the Operations Department - We offer a full-time contract (37.5h/week), a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, restaurant tickets, private health insurance - Duration: 31/12/2028 years - Holidays: 23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement - Salary: 50.000,00 € - Additional Expenses Grant: Each fellowship will be associated with a grant for additional expenses, such as IT equipment, travel, training, stays, etc. - Starting date: asap **Applications procedure and process** - A full CV in English, including contact details. - A cover/motivation letter with a statement of interest in English, clearly specifying for which specific area and topics the applicant wishes to be considered. Additionally, two references for further contacts must be included. Applications