Post doctoral in Computer Science – 24 months contract

29 Aug 2023
Job Information

Organisation/Company

TSP – Telecom SudParis

Department

Inf department

Research Field

Computer science

Researcher Profile

First Stage Researcher (R1)

Country

France

Application Deadline

28 Sep 2023 – 00:00 (Europe/Paris)

Type of Contract

Temporary

Job Status

Full-time

Hours Per Week

39

Offer Starting Date

1 Oct 2023

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Not funded by an EU programme

Reference Number

Post-doc inf

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

No

Offer Description

MISSIONS

With the growing need of organizations to increase their business outcomes and secure their positions in a highly competitive market, the demand for using cloud services and resources has increased significantly. In the era of digital transformation, no organization can think of upgrading its information system or exposing its services without resorting to the cloud. More than this, exploiting services from diverse cloud providers has become a natural choice for organizations that seek to provide their services with high availability, rapid recovery, and reduced cost. Such a goal is possible but far from easy to achieve, especially with the existence of a highly monopolized cloud market, whereby users are forced largely to consume products from a single provider, leading therefore to complete dependence on this provider (aka vender-lock-in phenomenon). Unfortunately, antitrust regulations cannot break the cloud market monopoly in the near future. Instead, it would be better to think of feasible solutions from a software engineering perspective, including models, approaches, and techniques that can liberate cloud users from being dependent on a single provider.

Our research team made the first steps towards breaking this provider dependency by proposing a description model that describes both user demands and service offers independently from any cloud provider and a service discovery approach. This description enables cloud users to efficiently discover and consume cloud services from different providers. Yet, the challenge is to devise techniques that allow the automated composition of services from different providers, a key step towards satisfying the new emerging complex user requirements. The composition step should exploit the outputs of our current discovery approach that consists of returning for each requested service either a set of services or a composition of services that matches it. In this context, the composition can be considered as a selection of the best combination of service offers that satisfy the user’s needs as well as his preferences/constraints. Once the user has confirmed the final combination of services, a generation step of its deployment model is essential, which is then used to implement the newly built composite service.

ACTIVITIES

• Bibliographic study on the composition of services in the cloud to determine recent approaches in order to identify gaps and possible improvements
• Proposing a new composition method or extending an existing one based on the conclusions of the conducted study
• Bibliographic study on the generation of deployment models for composite services in order to identify gaps and possible improvements
• Devising an automated generation method based on the conclusions of the conducted study
• Validation of the two methods with practical use cases

Requirements

Research Field

Computer science

Education Level

PhD or equivalent

Skills/Qualifications

Level of training required :

• PhD or Doctorat for less than 3 years

Required skills and knowledge :

• Good experience and knowledge in cloud services
• Good level in Python/Java/C/C++ programming languages

Advantageous skills, knowledge and experience:

• Desired experience in machine learning
• Desired experience in orchestration tools involving the deployment and configuration of infrastructures and services (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, etc.)
• Desired experience on Blockchain and BPM technologies

Skills and abilities :

• Strong motivation for research
• Ability to work in a team
• Spirit of initiative and creativity
• Autonomy

Languages

FRENCH

Level

Basic

Research Field

Computer science

Years of Research Experience

1 – 4

Additional Information
Benefits

– Deadline for applications : September 28th, 2023

– Nature of the contract: Limited contract 24 months

– Location of the position : Evry-Courcouronnes and Palaiseau (France)

– The positions offered for recruitment are open to all with, upon request, accommodations for candidates with disabilities

– Working conditions : teleworking possible, on-site restaurant and cafeteria, accessibility by public transport (with employer’s contribution) or close to main roads and staff association

Website for additional job details

https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/l/en/o/offre-type-telecom-sudparis-t…

Work Location(s)

Number of offers available

1

Company/Institute

Télécom SudParis

Country

France

State/Province

Ile-de-France

City

Evry-Courcouronnes

Postal Code

91000

Street

9 rue Charles FOURIER

Geofield

Where to apply

Website

https://institutminestelecom.recruitee.com/l/en/o/offre-type-telecom-sudparis-t…

Contact

State/Province

Ile-de-France

City

Evry-Courcouronnes

Website

https://www.telecom-sudparis.eu/

Street

9 rue Charles FOURIER

Postal Code

91000

E-Mail

[email protected]

STATUS: EXPIRED