Wednesday, 19 February 2014

Job Location: Cork, Ireland


Job Description


Our research group in Cork is seeking an experienced researcher to work in a software defined networking (SDN) project under a Marie Curie Research Fellowship. This is a collaborative project with a number of leading European research institutions. EMC’s role in the project is to investigate SDN deployment strategies within and between data centres.


Essential Skills and Experience

- Background in virtualisation technologies, centralised networking, and security management; demonstrates a passion for networking and distributed programming.
- Strong programming skills with a solid understanding of object oriented languages and principles; solid hands on coding with a modern programming language, C++, C#, Java, Ruby or Python.
- Good understanding of WAN traffic engineering and QoS technology
- Network Protocol stack development experience
- Practical expertise in cloud computing technologies, in particular Infrastructure-as-a-Service or Platform-as-a-Service
- Strong technical knowledge in software development methodologies, design and implementation; experience with enterprise software design patterns and tools.
- Excellent understanding of software development process, including specification, documentation, quality assurance, debugging practices and source control systems.
- Strong analytical and design skills; a natural curiosity to go beneath the surface of a problem.
- Strong skills in research and implementation; demonstrated capability to define research plans and carry out leading research.
- Ability to understand business issues as they impact networking and software development.
- Established publisher of research results through either professional journals, academic conferences or patents
- Strong communications and interpersonal skills.
- High energy levels, self-motivating and autonomous; able to perform research with minimum guidance.

Preferred Skills

- Experience with EU Framework projects including day to day execution and management, development of deliverables, coordination of research activities and scheduled reporting.
- Understanding of networking, system administration, and security architectures.
- General understanding of routing, switching and wLAN technologies including TCP/IP, Ethernet, VLANs.
- Experience and knowledge of service interface and public APIs.
- Knowledge and understanding of open source projects and protocols such as Openstack or OpenFlow.

Requirements

- PhD in engineering, computer science, information systems, mathematical or physical sciences.
- Excellent spoken and written English.


Other requirements

- Willingness to travel.
- Excellent communication in a cross functional organisation to achieve maximum results.
- Ability to represent EMC externally in business and research communities.

Job ID: 113563BR
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