Date: Jun 6, 2025
Location: Kortrijk, BE
Company: Barco
Barco CTRL Summer job 2025
Server room expansion – Hardware, Networking & Python
About Barco CTRL
Barco is a global technology company specializing in visualization and collaboration solutions. Their control room division is particularly renowned for providing advanced solutions for critical decision-making environments. Barco has been developing control room solutions since 1994, focusing on enhancing situational awareness and decision-making capabilities. Their offerings include:
Visualization Solutions: Barco provides high-quality video walls, including the Barco UniSee II LCD video wall and TruePix LED platform, designed for seamless and clear visualization in control rooms.
Control Room Software: Barco CTRL is a software platform that manages information flow efficiently, ensuring that critical data is accessible at the right time and place.
Applications: Their solutions cater to various industries, including power production, transportation, manufacturing, security operations, and healthcare. These applications help monitor and control critical assets, ensuring optimal performance and safety.
Barco CTRL test environment
All flavors of the Barco CTRL system are developed and automatically tested in our lab. Some setups allow direct interaction to experience and experiment with Barco CTRL. Most setups, however, are in a controlled environment within server racks, accessible and controllable over the network. They house interchangeable CTRL systems used for both development and automated testing.
Request
We are looking for TWO enthusiastic STUDENTS to help us expand our server room racks, both adding more setups and adding additional devices to each setup, taking great care to document and label all changes to keep our overview up to date. Additionally, inventorize and reorganize the stock we currently have at our development facility.
Technologies: server rack management, network configuration, Python, Netbox, Raritan
Key Responsibilities
Plan: Plan the expansion of our test and development infrastructure, making sure that we have enough space, hardware, and the correct network capacity.
Implement: Execute the plan, building, configuring, and expanding our new test setups.
Validate: Validate that the setups are functional and changes are compatible with our test suite.
Document: Label each device, update or add their location in our Netbox tracking system and update the description of our test setups where necessary. When indexing and organizing stock, keep a ledger of the available stock and each item’s location.
Qualifications
(Pursuing) A degree in system and network management or a related field.
Affinity with electronics and hardware.
Strong interest in Linux and network configurations
Independant (as a two-man team)
Effective communication and teamwork abilities.
Bonus: Fluent in English
D&I Statement
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