Job Postings

Student Job Postings

• System Administrator Assistant ($13/hr) (NSF REU funded) (Job Number: 711242)
  

  Job description: Assist Unix System Administrators with tasks associated with the support, configuration, and maintenance of computer systems including desktops (Windows XP, Mac OSX, Linux, and FreeBSD), rack-mounted servers (FreeBSD, Solaris, Linux), and remote servers (FreeBSD, Linux). Design and implement software to address a variety of tasks.

  Qualifications: Must be well-organized and detail-oriented. Experience with some form of Unix (FreeBSD, Linux, etc.) and some form of scripting language (Perl, Python, etc.) preferred. Must have a high level of creativity and knowledge of or ability to learn about computer hardware and software. Good communication skills and good command of the English language is essential. Ability to multi-task and be flexible is required.

• Webmaster Assistant ($13/hr) (NSF REU funded) (Job Number: 708681)
  

  Job description: Webmaster assistant for CAIDA (www.caida.org). Under supervision of the webmaster, the student will assist with website infrastructure and content maintenance tasks, including:

  • Update existing documents under guidance of researchers.
  • Check and fix broken links and references in the website.
  • Set up webpages for content such as papers, slidesets, as well as subsites for conferences and workshops.
  • Modify existing Perl code to aid with sitewide changes or CGI form processing.

  CAIDA's primary web site receives over 2,000 unique visitors (70,000+ hits) a day, making it one of the busier web sites on campus. CAIDA research results hit slashdot once or twice a year leading to over 30,000 visitors on those days. The web site has been in production status for over 7 years.

  The web site uses XML as the primary underlying framework for content, using customized XSL rules to convert xml to html on the server. Some highly-visited sections of the website are generated entirely by webmaster-maintained Perl scripts. The 30,000+ files of the web tree are maintained within CVS and an internal web control system.

  In addition to assisting the management of the website, this position allows interaction with CAIDA researchers, who have extensive backgrounds in Internet protocols, software design and network security.

  • Must be willing to learn, and have strong organization skills.
  • A strong HTML background is required. Familiarity with XML, Perl, and UNIX is desirable.
  • Experience with a UNIX-based editor (e.g., vi, XEmacs) is desired.
  • The applicant must be an enrolled undergraduate at a U.S. university.
  
  
• Data Administrator Assistant ($13/hr) (NSF REU funded) (Job Number: 711240)
  

  Job Description: Under general supervision the student will assist our Data Administrator with tasks associated with managing and analyzing large volumes of Internet data.

  CAIDA's primary web site receives over 2,000 unique visitors (70,000+ hits) a day, making it one of the busier web sites on campus. CAIDA research results hit slashdot once or twice a year leading to over 30,000 visitors on those days. The web site has been in production status for over 7 years.

  Qualifications:

  • Must be well-organized and detail-oriented.
  • Experience with HTML, shell scripting, Javascript, relational database concepts (MySQL), and data serialization languages, like XML, is preferred.
  • Must pay UC reg. fees each quarter working.
  
  

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Career Job Postings

We have no career job postings at this time.

Postdoctoral Job Postings

• Complex Networks Postdoctoral Research Position

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CAIDA Sabbatical

CAIDA supports a sabbatical program for Internet engineers, vendors, researchers, and faculty to take a brief respite from their normal day-to-day engineering, product development, or teaching duties, in order to lend their expertise to the advancement of larger Internet evolution issues. For further info please email info@caida.org.