The expanding PlanetLab Europe testbed is recruiting a Linux Systems Administrator (Sysop) 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:1600-2500 €/month gross (depending upon qualifications)

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

• Bachelors degree, or equivalent ("licence" in France), or
• French BTS or DUT diploma, or equivalent, or
• Higher diploma (Masters or engineering degree)

Languages

• Fluency in English
• Fluency in another language of the European Union (helpful)
• Basic ability in French (helpful)

Technical competencies

• Linux systems administration (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 maintaining a system that has several hundred users, with important security issues)
• Good communication skills (will provide user support and interact with PlanetLab site administrators on a daily basis)
• Thrives in a collaborative work environment (our NOC coordinates the testbeds of several institutions)
• Rigor in software development and documentation

Job Description

As PLE Linux System Administrator (Sysop), you will be responsible for the health and security of the PlanetLab Europe (PLE) infrastructure, maintenance of federation links with other testbeds, user satisfaction with PLE services, public reporting of PLE usage and health, and other testbed and server administration responsibilities. Programming for PLE will be devoted to maintaining the system. You will also have the opportunity to contribute to the long-term development of PlanetLab software.

You will be part of the PLE Operations Team in Paris and you will collaborate with other engineers at numerous sites to accomplish your goals: PlanetLab developers at INRIA in Sophia Antipolis, France; PlanetLab administrators and developers at Princeton University, in the United States; testbed administrators at other federated testbeds; and PLE site administrators at hundreds of institutions across Europe. You will also 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.

The PLE effort started as part of the European Community's OneLab project and is now supported by FIT (Future Internet of Things), 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 Linux System Administrator.

Please do not hesitate to inquire for more details before submitting an application.