Category: Positions, Jobs & Internships

Cyber-attacks increase leads to jobs boom

As the number and sophistication of cyber-attacks increase, so too does the demand for people who can prevent such digital incursions. Cyber-security is having a jobs boom.But there aren’t enough people with the necessary skills to become the next generation of cyber-cops.According to the most recent US Bureau of Labor statistics, demand for graduate-level information security workers will rise by 37% in the next decade, more than twice the predicted rate of increase for the overall computer industry.

via BBC News – Cyber-attacks increase leads to jobs boom.

Computer science enrollments rocketed last year, up 22%

A sneak peek at the annual Computing Research Association’s CRA report on computer science enrollments at colleges shows that strong demand for technically-savvy workers is luring students in a big way.

via Computer science enrollments rocketed last year, up 22% – Network World.

Report finds D.C. area a hotbed for cybersecurity jobs

Burning Glass conducts daily reviews of job postings across 32,000 online sites. In a report released last week, the company said that the Washington metropolitan area had more than 23,000 job postings for cybersecurity positions in 2013, a figure that far surpasses the number of such postings in any other region. New York had the second-highest number with just over 15,000. The San Francisco-San Jose metro area, which includes Silicon Valley, had more than 12,000.

via Report finds D.C. area a hotbed for cybersecurity jobs – The Washington Post.

IT Jobs: Best Paying Titles Of 2014

If you’re sticking with an IT job you hate, ask yourself one question. Why? For tech professionals, 2014 looks bright.

Hiring increased, according to a report from IT career site Dice. Seventy-three percent of tech-focused hiring managers and recruiters reported they plan to fill more IT positions this year, and nearly one quarter indicated a “substantial” rise in hiring numbers.

Employers continue to prioritize talent retention, and this works in your favor. For example, 40% reported an increase in counter-offers from existing employers, and 34% saw candidates reject job offers, according to the report.

via IT Jobs: Best Paying Titles Of 2014 – InformationWeek.

Hiring Managers Advise Job Seekers to Contribute to Open-source Projects

Contributing to open-source projects can give software developers an edge over other applicants in the competitive IT job market, say hiring professionals.”The phrase we use is ‘code is the new resume,'” said Jim Zemlin, executive director at The Linux Foundation. “Open source has truly become a juggernaut as of late. Within the last five years in particular it’s just become the dominant form of development.”Open source, he noted, is behind Google’s Android mobile OS, which is based on the Linux kernel, and open-source programs like Hadoop and NoSQL play key roles in the data-science movement. With open source in the mainstream, contributing to a community gets the attention of hiring managers.

via Hiring Managers Advise Job Seekers to Contribute to Open-source Projects – CIO.com.

Demand for Linux skills rises

Cloud infrastructure is largely Linux-based, and cloud services’ overall growth is increasing Linux server deployments. As many as 30 percent of all servers shipped this year will be cloud services providers, according to IDC. This shift may be contributing to Linux hiring trends reported in a recent Dice study, which found that 77 percent of hiring managers have put hiring Linux talent on their list of priorities, up from 70 percent last year. In the third quarter of 2013, Linux servers accounted for 28 percent of all server revenue, compared to 21.5 percent in the same time frame of 2012. “The utilization of the Linux operating system is moving more and more up the stack,” says Dice president Shravan Goli. Linux is clearly the preferred platform for cloud computing deployments, notes Pund-IT analyst Charles King. Overall, 93 percent of the managers surveyed in the Dice report plan to hire Linux professionals in the next six months, while 86 percent of the Linux professionals responding in the survey said Linux proficiency has provided them with more career opportunities.

Demand for Linux skills rises – Computerworld.

Three research positions at the French ANR project HPAC

Three research positions (postdoc or research engineer), offered by the French ANR project HPAC (High Performance Algebraic Computation), are open.

Title: High Performance Algebraic Computing

Keywords: parallel computing, computer algebra, linear algebra, C/C++ programming

Locations:

  • Grenoble, France (LIG-MOAIS, LJK-CASYS),
  • Lyon, France (LIP-AriC),
  • Paris, France (LIP6-PolSys),

Starting date: between June 2014 and January 2015

Type of position: 3 postdoc or research engineer positions of 1 year each

More information: http://bit.ly/1ivuKAW

Two faculty positions at the School of Computer Science, Reykjavik University

The School of Computer Science at Reykjavik University invites applications for two faculty positions at the rank of an assistant professor, to begin in August 2014.  We are looking for energetic, highly qualified academics who, apart from developing their own research programs, will strengthen some of the existing research areas within the School, or build bridges between them or with industry.  Applications from all areas of computer science are welcomed, but of particular interest are candidates in systems, broadly construed, and other applied areas.

via Process Algebra Diary: Two faculty positions at the School of Computer Science, Reykjavik University.