Principal Research Scientist Cloud Platforms

Dell EMC Research Europe, Office of the ISG CTO

Cork, Ireland

Dell Technologies is Dell, Dell EMC, Pivotal, RSA, SecureWorks, Virtustream, and VMware. We are a collective force of innovative capabilities trusted all over the world to provide technology solutions and services that accelerate digital transformation. We inspire, challenge and respect every one of our over 100,000 employees. We also provide them with unparalleled growth and development opportunities. We cant wait for you to discover this for yourself as aPrincipal Research Scientist on our R&D team in Cork.

Operating at the furthest reaches of the leading edge, our Research Scientists discover and create ground-breaking new technologies, materials and phenomena. Our goal is to illuminate and inspire through investigation, experimentation, examination, evaluation and testing but, crucially, our role is also about thought leadership. In presentation, we expand the understanding of both scientific and business audiences. In collaboration, we help to translate the results of our research programs into irresistible commercial propositions.

The research team in Cork is seeking a researcher to work in multi-year projects investigating and implementing novel cloud platform prototypes for enterprise-class business users across a number of industry verticals.

In this exciting role, you will join a team of seasoned researchers with expertise in software engineering, security, networking and data science and collaborate across internal and external technology groups to drive research and innovation advances.

We offer

• The opportunity to participate in world-class international research projects.
• Access to state-of-the art IT infrastructure and resources.
• Strong relationships within a vibrant global academic and industrial research network.
• The ability to translate research problems into real-world solutions.
• A working environment that fosters creativity and innovation.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Work under limited supervision on tight schedule projects, with both internal and external teams.
• Perform end-to-end steps involved in solution development, while establishing subject-matter expertise in key horizontal or vertical themes. Steps include design, development, implementation and validation.
• Design and implement research prototypes that test emerging concepts
• Work with the academic and business community to develop new techniques and to contribute to research in Distributed Cloud Platforms.
• Prepare and review project deliverables documentation.
• Assist in the development of research project proposals
• Work in a dynamic team environment with strong technical aptitude.

Essential Skills and Experience

• An accomplished software engineer, who truly understands multiple key technologies and applications, can create software, thrives in a fast-paced, highly ambiguous environment and has the ability and track record of influencing and collaborating with others
• Deep knowledge and understanding of popular cloud provider solutions and cloud orchestration tools (e.g. Azure, AWS, GCP. Pivotal Cloud Foundry, BOSH, Kubernetes, Docker etc.)
• Experience of data center infrastructure components; compute, storage or network.
• Excellent track record in software research, design and development and hands-on programming experience with a language like Java, C++ or Python.
• Accomplished skills in research and implementation, demonstrated capability to define research plans and carry out leading research.
• Vision to transform/integrate research outcomes into strategic roadmaps, by providing a close-to-market vision to research activities.
• Capability to lead a complex collaborative research project with multiple internal and external partners and stakeholders.
• Effective communications and interpersonal skills; is very comfortable interacting with high-level individual contributors and management
• High energy levels, self-motivating and autonomous; able to perform work with minimum guidance.
• Aptitude for collaboration and engagement with multiple stakeholders including academics, internal product development teams, industrial partners and customers.

Desirable Skills

• Hands-on experience using DevOps technologies (e.g. Jenkins, Gitlab, GitHub, Artifactory etc.), Chef, Puppet, BOSH, or related automated/orchestration tools.
• Hands-on experience in Infrastructure automation and building distributed fault-tolerant systems (specialization in infrastructure as code and containerized microservices)
• Knowledge of cloud security policies, standards and procedures for public/private/hybrid clouds; for example: network management, security incident and event management (SIEM), data protection, password/key management, and vulnerability/threat management
• Previous experience with EU Framework projects including day-to-day execution of tasks and development of deliverables.
• Understanding of industry trends in cloud technologies for public, private and hybrid cloud deployments

Requirements

• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or related field with 8+ years relevant experience; or Masters degree with 6+ years relevant experience or PhD with 3+ years relevant experience.
• Excellent spoken and written English.

Other Requirements

• Willingness to travel, Europe primarily.
• Ability to represent Dell externally in business and research communities.

Benefits

We offer highly competitive salaries, bonus programs, world-class benefits, and unparalleled growth and development opportunities all to create a compelling and rewarding work environment.

If youre keen to independently apply scientific or engineering laws to explore significant and unique issues, this is your opportunity to develop with Dell.

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