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Industrial Year Job – HP Cloud Services, Galway, Ireland

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Hello Everyone

Please see below details of an IY with HP…..

Closing date is end of January but as always, the sooner you apply the better.

Lorraine

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Industrial Year Placement with HP Cloud Services – Galway, Ireland

You will be joining a high energy and seasoned team, with a startup
culture, to build the next generation of public cloud, as part of HP’s
converged cloud offering. HP Cloud Services (HPCS) is a startup division within HP. Our goal is to provide the next generation of cloud
infrastructure, platform services, and cloud solutions for developers,
ISVs, and businesses of all sizes, based on OpenStack and related open
source projects. www.hpcloud.com provides more information of HP’s public cloud service.
As a member of the team, you will participate in one or more aspects of building a highly available, scalable and secure cloud solution. You will be engaged in a mix of Open Source and proprietary development, working with teams with HP and across the Open Stack Community.
Location
HP offices in Galway, on the west coast of Ireland. Galway is the major hub of Western Ireland, and well known for mixing travellers, students, culture and night-life.
HP Galway has a long history of taking placement year students from Aberystwyth, and prides itself on providing an atmosphere and situation where both students and HP get the maximum benefit from their year. Students are given real work on real systems and become full members of the teams they are placed with.
Responsibilities
– As a member of the HP Cloud Services team, you will contribute to the operational (running a data centre) and development activities involved with deploying and maintaining a public cloud.
– Work with multiple project teams of other software systems engineers and internal and outsourced development partners responsible for all stages of design and development for complex products and platforms,
including solution design, analysis, coding, testing, and integration
– Work with a range of technologies including Python, Linux, Openstack, ReSTful APIs, chef, ruby, git, HP labs technology and lots of big servers.
Salary
19k euro / annum, pro-rata for the length of internship
Application
CV and cover letter to duncan.thomas@hp.com
Useful links:-
www.hpcloud.com

www.openstack.org

www.theonion.com/video/hp-on-that-cloud-thing-that-everyone-else-is-talki,28789/

Entreprenurship seminar – November 23rd

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On the 23rd November Andrew Dixon is visiting the University and will offer a day-long seminar on entrepreneurship for 25-30 students. Andrew’s biography is below. During the day you will learn about raising money for start-up companies and be able to discuss your business ideas with fellow seminar participants. Lunch is included.

WHEN: 23rd November 0930-1530
WHERE: Medrus
HOW DO I REGISTER? WIth Steve McGuire (SMB) sbm@aber.ac.uk. Basically, it is the first 25-30 students who register
WHAT DO I NEED TO BRING? An interest in entrepreneurship and, ideally, a business idea (at whatever stage of development) that we can talk about.

Andrew is an investor in early-stage UK businesses – online gaming and instrumentation in the nanotechnology sector are the cornerstones of the portfolio. He previously worked at Societe Generale and Goldman Sachs where he advised gold producers, end-users, central banks & investors across the Asian region as to appropriate commodity derivative strategies. Andrew is an Enterprise Fellow at the Prince’s Trust, and holds a degree in International Politics from Aberystwyth University and an MBA from London Business School. He enjoys the odd bottle of Australian Shiraz, a half-volley outside off stump and a walk with the dog across the common.

Graduate Recruitment Talk – Wednesday 21st November 2pm Physics A

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Stuart Herbert, Head of Quality from Datasift, is coming to do a talk on the above date.  He will also be doing a Q&A session afterwards in Comp Sci reception.  He is recruiting Software Engineers.

Please see job description:-

Graduate Platform Engineer 2012

You can apply online after the talk, or you can bring your application along with you to give to him.

Thanks

Lorraine

 

English Language Teaching

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Dear Final Year Students / Graduates,

British Council Language Assistants Opportunity, CHINA: Applications now open!

The British Council is currently recruiting 100 graduates to become English Language Assistants in China. We’re looking for open minded, mature and adaptable individuals from across the UK.  You need to have at least a 2nd class degree (from any subject) by summer 2013 to apply but do not need any previous teaching experience or a knowledge of Mandarin to participate in the programme.

You will live and teach in China for approximately ten months where you will receive a local salary of 3-4500 RMB per month, free accommodation, plus your return flights reimbursed. The programme begins with a two week TEFL induction course in Beijing in August 2013 and teaching follows the Chinese school year from Sept 2012 to June 2013.  You will gain valuable skills and life experience – impressing future employers upon your return. Previous English Language Assistants have gone on to pursue successful careers in journalism, teaching, business, charity work, and international relations.

This is a fantastic opportunity to get to know the ‘real’ China whilst giving something back to the community.

Find out more about the programme and how to apply here: http://www.britishcouncil.org/languageassistants-china.htm.

Deadline for applications is 3rd December 2012.  Apply early as you will need to send us some additional documents to complete your application.  (Details on the website)

If you have any questions please contact: language.assistants@britishcouncil.org.

Thanks and best wishes,

The Language Assistants Team

Language Assistants
Programmes & Projects

Google’s Summer Trainee Engineering Program (STEP)

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Google has opened applications for it’s Summer Trainee Engineering Program (STEP). This is aimed at students who have completed their first year by summer 2013. Different elements include working on a software development project with Google engineers, improving your coding experience and professional development. There are opportunities for students at four offices: London, Munich, Krakow and Zurich.

For details and a link to the application form, please go to http://www.google.com/jobs/students/proscho/programs/emea/step/. An excellent opportunity. Applications are due by 28th December 2012.

IBM Careers Visit

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Daniel Cucos, one of the department’s graduates, is coming to the University on Friday 2nd November to talk about careers with IBM. Daniel graduated in 2011 and he is currently an IT Junior Consultant at IBM in the UK.

He is running a general session pitched at all departments from 12noon until 1.30pm. You can find out details at the Careers site.

At 2pm, Daniel will take a session aimed directly at Computer Science students. He will be talking about his experience of working for IBM, tips on applications and also talking about the current Graduate opportunities and Industrial Placements. This is in 0.33 in the new IBERS building. Come along to learn about specific opportunities available for students with a computing background.

IBM UK Mainframe Challenge

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IBM has launched its annual Mainframe contest. It has already started and it will continue to run until 31st December 2012.

The prizes this year include:

  • A hoodie to the first 250 students to complete Part 1.
  • £50 Amazon Gift Card for the first 25 to correctly complete Part 2.
  • Samsung Galaxy Tab and a visit to Hursley Labs for the top 3 students completing Part 3.

The Mainframe challenge is a great opportunity for undergraduates to learn some skills related to IBM’s zOS operating system. Skills which are sought after in industry and hard to come by, without this kind of opportunity.

So far, there are 200 students signed up and the majority of them are from Manchester University. It would be a good show if we could get Aber Comp Sci in the top 3 and win those prizes.

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Welcome to Your Future, a new site by CompSci to highlight relevant careers information that we hope will help you to think about what you want to do next and how to go about getting on the right track.

This information is intended for Aber CompSci students. It is probably most relevant to students planning an Industrial Year, 3rd years, final year MEng students and MSc students, but it is open to everyone.

This is an experiment and we welcome your input on how to make this a useful resource that helps you to move on to your next great challenge.