[Tccc] Research Associate Positions at the Laboratory for Internet Computing, University of Cyprus

George Pallis gpallisatcs.ucy.ac.cy
Thu Sep 20 10:09:55 EDT 2012



 The Laboratory for Internet Computing, Department of Computer Science, 
University of Cyprus (LINC-UCY) announces the availability of a number 
of Research Associate/Special Scientist positions in Cloud Computing. 
The funding for the positions is provided by the European Commission 
under the FP7 Collaborative Project CELAR: Automatic, multi-grained 
elasticity provisioning for the Cloud, which aims at providing 
automatic, fine-grained resource allocation for Cloud applications. 
CELAR will start in 10/2012 and finish in 09/2015, and comprises the 
following institutions: Athena Research and Innovation Center (Greece); 
University of Cyprus (Cyprus); Technical University of Vienna (Austria); 
GRNET (Greece); PlayGen Ltd (UK); Institute of Cancer Research  Royal 
Cancer Hospital (UK); SIXSQ SARL (Switzerland); Flexiant Ltd (UK).  

The successful candidates will focus on a set of tasks aiming to develop 
a complete set of open-source tools that will allow the enhancement of a 
Cloud platform towards automatic, intelligent, multi-grained resource 
provisioning according to the needs of user applications. Specifically, 
the LINC-UCY team will focus its efforts on designing and developing the 
following tools: (i) the c-Eclipse framework, which will be built on top 
of the reliable eco-system of Eclipse, will provide plug-ins for 
accessing and managing Cloud resources on the envisioned platform; (ii) 
the Cloud information subsystem, which will contain a Cloud resource 
description framework and search capabilities for Cloud resources; and 
(iii) a scalable, multi-layer Cloud Monitoring tool that will gather a 
rich set of platform, infrastructure and application-side metrics and 
evaluate them in a composite fashion. LINC-UCY will also support 
integration and application development.

Requirements, Eligibility Criteria and Funding: Successful candidates 
are expected to conduct original research, development, and integration 
in collaboration with the principal investigators of CELAR at LINC-UCY, 
and to contribute actively to the activities planned in the context of 
the project (software design and development, project management, 
participation to meetings and events, preparation of deliverables, 
scientific publications of project results). Applicants are expected to 
have strong analytical and software development skills, extensive 
knowledge and experience in one or more of the following areas:

- Experimental performance evaluation of parallel and distributed 
computing systems;
- Distributed data management and Cloud data management;
- Middleware and distributed computing systems;
- Data mining, information retrieval.

We are looking for highly motivated and committed applicants, with a 
strong work ethic, good command of spoken and written English, good 
communication skills and willingness to collaborate with other 
researchers and developers having diverse backgrounds. Experience with 
writing research papers and technical reports, Eclipse, OSGi, TOSCA, 
WSDL is a plus, but not mandatory. Knowledge of the Greek language, 
although considered a practical advantage, is by no means a requirement. 
Available positions and specific skills expected are described below:

[CELAR-SR1]: Senior Research Associate (a Ph.D. degree is required). 
Eclipse programming and software architecture; Experience with design 
and implementation of tools for HPC, such as Application Description and 
Job Submission; Experimental performance evaluation of applications and 
HPC systems; computational job management; Project Management.
[CELAR-SR2]: Senior Research Associate (M.Sc. or Ph.D. degree required): 
Cluster and/or Grid Monitoring Systems; Performance Evaluation; 
Information Retrieval and Data Management; XML, RDF, Lucene, Relational 
and Cloud Databases; Project Management.
[CELAR-RA]: 2 Research Associates (a M.Sc. degree is required): Advanced 
programming skills in Java, Web Services, Middleware, and Workflow 
Environments.


The positions are for 12 months, starting in late 2012, and can be 
extended to up to 3 years. The annual (gross) salary is in the order of 
EUR 14,000 - 26,000, depending on qualifications and prior experience. 
Applicants need not be citizens of the Republic of Cyprus. To Apply, 
submit a detailed CV, contact information for at least two 
recommendations, and an one page research statement in electronic format 
(PDF) by email with subject [POSITION CODE] to ce... at cs.ucy.ac.cy. While 
expressions of interest are accepted on a continuous basis, applications 
received by September 30, 2012 will be considered in the first 
evaluation cycle. Selected candidates will be invited for personal 
interview.

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