2013 janvier Vérizon Sysadmin req System Engineering FreeIPA Intern

Job Description: Senior Security Engineer, Luxembourg
EMEA Internship Programme -2013, Luxembourg, 2010-12-16

Verizon Business Luxembourg

System Engineering FreeIPA Intern
Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Function title: System Engineering FreeIPA Intern
Overview of department including capabilities, reach and team dynamics
The Security Services Infrastructures department is responsible for the day-to-day system
management of the security infrastructures, which are used 24x7 to monitor and manage the
security of our customers. It interacts on a daily basis with other departments like the SOC
(Security Operation Center) and development teams.
The Luxembourg infrastructure is, for legal purposes, cut from our other infrastructures and
managed solely from Luxembourg

Key objectives of the internship and project overview: (when completing please
consider the following:
The purpose of the internship is to help migrating our current set of Kerberos, LDAP, DNS and
NTP servers into a smaller set of FreeIPA servers (http://freeipa.org/). They must be configured in
a high-availability setup so as to fit into our Disaster Recovery Plan. Any change performed in the
course of the migration should fit within our Service Level agreements, which severely limit
downtimes or service interruptions for our users and operations.
Key requirements of the project are as follows:
1. Build and configure FreeIPA servers at our main and Disaster Recovery sites.
2. Keep those servers in sync
3. Migrate our usage of DNS, NTP, Kerberos and LDAP to FreeIPA, wherever possible.

Key responsibilities of intern / weekly requirements of the position (job description)
1. Understand our security, high-availability and reliability requirements in order to be able to
perform the migrations as smoothly and seamlessly as possible.
2. Be in touch with other members of our international team in order to help keeping the
Luxembourg infrastructure as similar as possible to our others.

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Job Description: Senior Security Engineer, Luxembourg

3. Help improving our audit compliance. The critical security controls 12 and 16 as defined by
the SANS institute (http://www.sans.org/critical-security-controls/) are of particular interest for
that matter.

Required technical skills or knowledge:
Student should have/be:
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Solid practical experience with Linux.

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Basic concepts of networking.

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Good understanding of general system and network security concepts.

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Solid understanding of LDAP, SSL, Kerberos, DNS and NTP.

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Someone with a genuine curiosity for technology, exposed to technology from an early
age.

Required degree subject:
Bachelors or Master in
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Computer Science or Information Security

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Any other information:
Located in Luxembourg, possible travel to Brussels, Dortmund or Zurich.

Important programme information:
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This is a paid internship with bonus potential.
All interns are required to complete a presentation of achievements against set objectives
to their management team at the end of their internship.

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Presentation and overall performance are assessed against Intern Performance Rating.
Bonus determined by Rating.

Apply Now:
Please apply with your CV, motivation statement.
Ref:
epsr 00965007 & 00965008
Contact:
Verizon Business Career Zone (www.verizon.com/europeinterns2013) or
Regis.jeandin@VerizonBusiness.com

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