[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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