Research Software Engineer - Cyber Security

The role

This is an ‘open-ended with fixed-funding’ position (with funding confirmed for 12 months in the first instance) within Bristol Cyber Security Group. Led by Professor Awais Rashid at the University of Bristol, the group is recognised as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research by the NCSC.

The Group participates in several major initiatives, hosting REPHRAIN, the National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online, EPSRC funded programme grant SCULI (Securing Convergent Ultra-large Scale Infrastructures), leading the programme of work on developing a Cyber Security Body of Knowledge (CyBOK), leading an EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Cyber Security (CDT in Cyber Security) and leading projects as part of the Research Institute on Trustworthy, Interconnected, Cyber-Physical Systems (RITICS). The University also hosts the NCSC Research Institute on Science of Cyber Security (RISCS). There is a strong expectation that you will actively contribute to the strong profile of Cyber Security at Bristol and its interdisciplinary ethos.

What will you be doing?

We are looking for a candidate to work across a number of different projects, specifically to develop tools to support users of the research being conducted. The research involves developing software systems for experimentation to study security and privacy properties of applications as well as developing tools that provide both analytical and visualisation capabilities to users of such tools.  The role includes maintenance of large, distributed code bases and the merging of pull requests from other contributors. You will be expected to participate in requirements gathering from user groups of such tools and other researchers engaged in the project, as well as designing, implementing and evaluating the tools with user partners of the projects (both internally and externally).

You will join a thriving and growing team of over 60 researchers engaged in cyber security research and bring a strong ethos of real-world usable tools to the research being conducted in the group. Experience of software development in a research or commercial setting is an essential requirement for this role, as is demonstrable experience of working with large-scale textual or semi-structured data.

You should apply if

• Knowledge and experience of programming & hands-on experience of developing substantial software systems. Experience of RUST and Python or similar languages.
• Demonstrable ability to learn new languages & tools evidenced by hands-on experience in different projects.
• Knowledge and experience of secure software development practices.
• Knowledge and experience of Git
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.

Additional information

For informal enquiries please contact:

Awais Rashid awais.rashid@bristol.ac.uk, or

Partha Das Chowdhury partha.daschowdhury@bristol.ac.uk

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Contract type: Open ended with 12 months fixed funding

Interview dates will be confirmed in due course.

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