Software — Stack — for Massively Geo-Distributed Infrastructures

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[FILLED] DevOps R&D Engineer on cloud/edge infrastructure -

Application deadline: February 27th, 2023

Practical information


Start: May 2023
Duration: 18 months (CDD)
Supervision: Baptiste Jonglez, Inria, baptiste.jonglez@inria.fr
Team: Stack
Location: IMT Atlantique, Nantes
Salary: from 2800 € / month gross salary (depending on diploma and experience)
Benefits: social security coverage, 2 days of remote work per week, partial reimbursement of public transport costs, vocational training

To apply, send a CV and a cover letter to baptiste.jonglez@inria.fr, we will then schedule an interview (in-person in Nantes if practical, remote otherwise).

Context


STACK is a research group focusing on challenges related to the management and advanced usages of Utility Computing infrastructures (i.e. Cloud, Fog, Edge, and beyond).

This position is funded through OTPaaS, a project funded under the French PIA-4 framework “stratégie d’accélération Cloud” for a duration of 36 months with an overall budget of 56M€. The project targets the design and development of a complete software stack to administrate and use “Cloud to IoT” infrastructures.

Among all project partners, the STACK team is responsible for validating the overall software stack from a research perspective.

Expected work


Several members of the team will contribute code for the target software stack. Your role will be to:

  • ensure the good quality of the developed software (design, tests, CI/CD, integration, good practices)

  • help to integrate the contributions of the team together and with open source projects, possibly upstreaming open source contributions in the process

  • deploy and evaluate prototypes of the software stack on experimental platforms such as Grid’5000, using Enoslib to make these experiments reproducible

  • take part in relevant open-source working groups (OpenInfra, LF Edge, GAIA-X…)

Open source is a core value of the team: you will rely on open-source projects and will have the opportunity to contribute back to some of these projects. The team has a track record of contributing to large open source projects such as Openstack.

You will be part of a small and flexible team of engineers with frequent interactions, and where sharing knowledge is encouraged. However, you are still free to organize your work as you like.

Skills


A good practical knowledge of Git and Gitlab is mandatory.

Knowledge of one or more of the following projects will be appreciated: Ansible, Python, Gitlab CI, Grid’5000, Enoslib, Kubernetes, Nomad, Consul, Golang.

Curiosity, thinking outside the box and an interest for public research are appreciated.

A good level of written technical English is expected. Day-to-day communication can be done in either French or English.