Open position at STFC e-Science Centre!

Grid Security Researcher

The following position is available at STFC e-Science Centre, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK, and is to be filled as soon as possible:

- Grid Security Researcher

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The UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC, http://www.stfc.ac.uk) is one of Europe's largest multidisciplinary research organizations supporting scientists and engineers worldwide.  The Council operates the UK's major scientific facilities in a wide range of disciplines that include a neutron source target station (ISIS), large scale telescopes at high altitudes, microstructure fabrication and laser facilities and has a major stake in others such as the Diamond Light Source.  It manages scientific programmes such as particle physics in collaboration with CERN, space science and technology in collaboration with ESA and collaborative computational programmes.
The STFC team in XtreemOS belongs to the E-science Centre which has over 100 staff at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire and the Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire.  The Centre is responsible for e-science solutions which support the STFC facilities and programmes.  This includes Grid-accessible computational clusters and Petabyte data storage.  It manages the National Grid Service which accesses resources all over the UK and has a significant stake in EGEE.

STFC in XtreemOS
Within XtreemOS, the STFC team (at RAL) is mainly responsible for design and implementation of security components and this underpins the VO support.   The expertise builds on expertise built up in other EU and UK projects such as GridTrust, TrustCom, Akogrimo, DyCom and CoreGrid.