Ops Team Manager

Level of qualifications required : Graduate degree or equivalent

Fonction : Temporary scientific engineer

Level of experience : From 5 to 12 years

Context

Software Heritage is an ambitious nonprofit, entirely Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) initiative that aims at collecting, organizing, preserving for the very long term, and sharing all publicly available software in source code form, together with the corresponding complete development history (e.g., from a Version Control System) where available. The Software Heritage archive already contains more than 13 billion unique source code files and 2.7 billion commits, retrieved from more than 185 million software projects.

The SoftwareHeritage initiative is hosted by INRIA fundation.

Assignment

We are looking for a manager for our operations team. The team consists of 5 engineers, including a tech lead, and is responsible for maintaining the Software Heritage infrastructure, designing and implementing its evolution and helping deploy the Software Heritage applications. The ideal candidate will be both a good manager and a good engineer, since he/she will be involved in the team's technical activities.

Here is a non-exhaustive list of projects on which you could be called upon to collaborate:

• Help design and install a new infrastructure for Software Heritage hosted at CINES
• Continue the transformation to a more devops oriented organization
• Accompany the growth of the operations team and the Software Heritage

Main activities

• Day to day management of the operations team
• Ensure the Software Heritage infrastructure and applications are up and running
• Project management and coordination with other teams
• Technical participation in team projects and activities
• Interaction with relevant Open Source communities and Software Heritage partners

Skills

Software Heritage is a complex technical architecture (see our documentation), based on many different technologies, which continues to evolve. We do not expect candidates to master all of them, but rather to be open to discovery and learning. Previous knowledge of one or more of the subjects mentioned below will help in the process of getting to grips with the project, but we encourage you to apply whatever your level of experience in these technologies.

• Experience on Kubernetes or equivalent container orchestration environment
• Solid Linux experience on a production environment, preferably at scale
• Experience with configuration management technologies such as Puppet, Chef or Ansible
• Operation of relational (PostgreSQL) and/or NoSQL (Cassandra) databases
• Scalable storage (e.g. Ceph, cloud-based blob storage, ZFS, Swift…)

The ideal candidate will be sensitive to the FOSS culture and ecosystem (use, possible contributions to projects…). We expect self-organization and autonomy skills commensurate with the candidate’s experience. Good system administration practices should be well known or mastered, particularly in the context of FOSS development, and software development should be at least a familiar skill.

Benefits package

• Partial reimbursement of public transport costs
• Leave: 7 weeks of annual leave + 10 extra days off due to RTT (statutory reduction in working hours) + possibility of exceptional leave (sick children, moving home, etc.)
• Possibility of teleworking (after 6 months of employment) and flexible organization of working hours
• Professional equipment available (videoconferencing, loan of computer equipment, etc.)
• Social, cultural and sports events and activities
• Access to vocational training
• Social security coverage

Remuneration

Depending on qualifications and professional experience

About Inria

Inria, the French national institute for research in digital science and technology, supports the French government in national research and innovation strategies in the digital field, acting as Digital Programs Agency. Inria leads over 300 research and innovation projects with its 3,500 scientists, engineers, and support staff, in partnership with universities and the digital ecosystem (businesses, entrepreneurs, and public stakeholders). Together, we explore strategic fields such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, quantum computing, cloud technologies, digital transformation in healthcare, digital twins, and digital technologies for defence. We develop practical solutions such as software, tech startups, partnerships with national companies, and cutting-edge training programmes. Our goal is to drive scientific, technological, and industrial excellence to ensure France’s digital sovereignty.