The expanding PlanetLab Europe testbed is recruiting a Research Engineer for its NOC (Network Operations Centre) based at UPMC Sorbonne Universités, Paris.
Summary
Contract: One year contract (in French, a "CDD"), renewable for two more years
Salary:Approx. 3000 €/month gross.(Note: The take-home amount in France, after the standard pension, health care, and tax withholding amounts have been removed, is typically 0.8 times the gross salary)
Employer: Networks and Performance Analysis (NPA) Group, LIP6 Computer Science Laboratory, UPMC Sorbonne Universités, Paris, France
Education
- Engineering degree, or
- Masters in computer science,
- With a background in computer networking.
Languages
- Fluency in English
- Fluency in another language of the European Union (helpful)
- Basic ability in French (helpful)
Technical competencies
- Linux administration and development (vital)
- Systems monitoring (e.g., Nagios, Cactii)
- Shell and Python programming
- Remote hosted server administration
- Apache, BIND, Postfix administration (helpful)
- C and SQL programming (helpful)
- Linux VServer, Xen, KVM, or other virtualization system experience (helpful)
- Experience with Joomla! or another CMS (helpful)
Qualities
- Reliable (will be responsible for a system that has several hundred users, with important security issues)
- Excellent communication skills (will provide user support and interact with PlanetLab site administrators on a daily basis)
- Excellent presentation skills (participate in meetings of European and international projects)
- Thrives in a collaborative work environment (our NOC coordinates the testbeds of several institutions)
- Rigor in workplace organization
Job Description
As the Chief Research Engineer, you will be the leader of the operations team in Paris, which directly operates both the PlanetLab Europe testbed and a new wireless testbed that will be created as part of FIT, and you will collaborate with engineers at federated testbeds, both within the FIT facility and beyond. You will coordinate and work hands-on with the team responsible for the health and security of the infrastructure, maintenance of federation links with other testbeds, user satisfaction with services, public reporting of facility usage and health, and other facility and server administration responsibilities. You will also have the opportunity to make a significant impact, with the possibility of shaping emerging global standards for testbed federation and the opportunity to co-author scientific papers on the subject. To achieve these tasks, you will work closely with project managers, the communications team, researchers, and professors at UPMC Sorbonne Universités.
The position is to work in a French-speaking environment, however you are not required to know French in order to start the job. Everyone in the team is conversant in English, and you will communicate in English at the European level, with the United States, and with partners elsewhere in the world.
PlanetLab Europe (PLE) started as part of the European Community's OneLab project and is now supported by Future Internet of Things (FIT), one of 52 winning projects from the first wave of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research's "Équipements d'Excellence" research grant programme (EquipEx).
Job application
For immediate consideration, please send a text (ASCII), Word, PDF, or HTML version of your resume to jobs@onelab.eu.
Important: The subject field of your email should include PLE Research Engineer.
Please do not hesitate to inquire for more details before submitting an application.
