General information
Organisation
The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.
Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.
The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
Reference
SL-DRT-26-0680
Direction
DRT
Thesis topic details
Category
Engineering science
Thesis topics
Model-Driven DevOps for Cloud Orchestration : Bridging Design-Time and Runtime Guarantees
Contract
Thèse
Job description
Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) has traditionally relied on a clear separation between design and runtime, but this boundary no longer holds in today's cloud-native and edge environments, where infrastructures are heterogeneous, dynamic, and continuously evolving. Assumptions validated at design time may become invalid during execution, and modern orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes or OpenStack, while effective, remain weakly connected to architectural modeling environments. This results in a structural gap between architectural specification and actual operational behavior. To bridge this gap, this thesis proposes to develop a formal modeling framework for placement constraints across heterogeneous orchestration platforms, ensuring continuity between design-time validation and runtime guarantees. This framework would elevate placement constraints — resource locality, affinity, network latency, security isolation, and quality-of-service objectives — to first-class modeling constructs. At design time, it would enable static feasibility analysis and automated generation of deployment artifacts; at runtime, it would ensure continuous compliance monitoring and adaptive reconfiguration in response to violations. Expected contributions include a formal modeling language, bidirectional transformations between design-time models and runtime representations, and integration with Papyrus-based tooling. The ultimate goal is to ensure that architectural intent remains consistent and verifiable throughout the entire system lifecycle, from initial design through to production operation.
University / doctoral school
Sciences et Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (STIC)
Paris-Saclay
Thesis topic location
Site
Saclay
Requester
Position start date
01/09/2026
Person to be contacted by the applicant
BALIGAND Fabien
CEA
DRT/DILS//LICIA
Centre d'intégration Nano-INNOV - CEA-LIST - Université Paris-Saclay
2 Bd Thomas Gobert, 91120 Palaiseau
Tutor / Responsible thesis director
RADERMACHER Ansgar
ansgar.radermacher@cea.fr
CEA
DRT/DILS//LSEA
CEA/Saclay
01 69 08 38 12
En savoir plus
https://www.lereseaudescarnot.fr/fr/institut-carnot/cea-list