About EMC

EMC ranks among the ten most valuable technology companies. It’s why our customers represent the vast majority of Fortune 500 companies, as well as many smaller enterprises and partners. And in order to build on our record of success, we need to continue to rely on our team of dedicated, innovative and talented professionals to get the job done. With a Research job at EMC, you’ll put your strong technical communication skills to work with a dynamic team focused on creating cutting edge systems and helping to drive new EMC capabilities - all in a compelling and rewarding work environment.

-         The opportunity to participate in world-class international research projects.

-         Access to state-of-the art 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.

Our research group in Cork is seeking a researcher to work across a number of projects investigating security and privacy issues in the Cloud. These are collaborative projects in partnership with a number of leading European research institutions and global industrials. The projects will explore areas such as the management of security parameters in Cloud Service Level Agreements and enforceable cloud security solutions for data owners.

• Background in computer science, information technology, software engineering or any closely related fields
• Experience with cloud security, federated cloud networking, dynamic configuration, automated provisioning and orchestration of cloud resources.
• Familiar with current cryptographic key management theory and practice
• Extensive appreciation of data ownership and privacy issues as they pertain to both content providers and end-users of cloud services.
• 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.
• Strong technical knowledge in software development methodologies, design and implementation and experience with enterprise software design patterns and tools.
• Ability to understand business issues as they impact IT Security and Data Privacy in the Cloud.
• 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.
• Vision to transform/integrate research outcomes into strategic roadmaps, by providing a close-to-market vision to research activities.
• Established publisher of research results through professional journals, academic conferences or patents.
• Proven track record of innovation with contributions to industry forums and standards bodies.
• Strong communications and interpersonal skills; is very comfortable interacting with high-level individual contributors, mangers, directors and VPs.
• High energy levels, self-motivating and autonomous; able to perform research with minimum guidance.

• Knowledge of IT security standards
• Experience with EU Framework projects including day to day execution and management, development of deliverables, coordination of research activities and scheduled reporting.
• Proven track record in architecture and design of IT systems.
• Application, database and operating system security and security hardening techniques.
• Understanding of networking, system administration, and security architectures.
• Aptitude for collaboration and engagement with multiple stakeholders including academics, internal product development teams, industrial partners, government agencies and customers.

• Master’s degree in computer science, information technology, electrical engineering or any closely related fields; an advanced degree (PhD) is desirable or equivalent work experience.
• Excellent spoken and written English.

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