We're looking for a Firewall Administrator to work as a freelancer for an important project based just outside of Munich (North). This is an 8 month freelance project, which will be on-site to begin with, then remove to fully remote work after set-up. There is potential for extensions.

You must speak English to a fluent business level. We're looking for someone with at least 5 years worth of experience. The day-rate for this position is between 350-420 Euros per day, depending on experience.

Skills & Experience:

- Web Ironport Cisco Web Security Appliance
- Cisco Content Security Management Appliance
- Mail Ironport Cisco Email and Web Manager
- Secure Mail CISCO Gateway
- Meinberg NTP
- Proxy Squid
- Postfix
- CheckPoint and CISCO Firewalls - Network and Firewall high knowledge is required.
- Tripwire
- Genucenter (Genuscreen) (desirable)
- McAfee EPO (desirable)

To be considered for this position,  please apply with an up to date CV. You must also be eligible to live and work in the EU, with the ability to travel on-site in the initial stages of the contract.

We're looking for a Communications consultant to join us on a freelance project for an exciting consultancy in Luxembourg. The ideal person will have solid experience with tech, ideally with some coding & dev knowledge. This is a remote position for a 12 month contract, with an expected day-rate between 300-350 Euros per day.

Functions/ Requirements:

Bachelors degree in a technical field (e.g. any IT Engineering, Computer Science, etc.) or in a functional field (e.g. Communications, Public Relations, Business, etc.);

Excellent command of spoken and written English

Experience in public relations and related communication matters;

Knowledge of digital marketing channels and communication strategies;

Demonstrate attention to detail and adherence to predefined processes;

Experience with stakeholder management, excellent communication and interpersonal skills is strongly desired;

Strong analytical skills to assess stakeholder interests, concerns, and levels of influence;

Experience in planning and project management in a complex project.

Extreme attention to detail both of an editorial (formatting, spacing, alignment, consistent use of fonts, correct links, etc.) and substantive nature (ability to check all the content and spot anything wrong)

IT literacy.

Technologies/Skills:

Develop stakeholders/communication engagement strategies;

Develop and maintain a comprehensive stakeholder ecosystem/map;

Implement engagement plans/strategies;

Effectively manage stakeholders, drawing on past experience with diverse stakeholder groups;

Engage in technical and business dialogues with stakeholders;

Organize meetings, including remote, hybrid, and on-site formats. This involves preparing agendas, sending invitations, arranging technical setups, and ensuring smooth communication flow. Familiarity with hybrid organizational tools is a plus;

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and consistency in stakeholder engagement approaches;

Utilize structured tools (such as JIRA and Confluence) to maintain repositories of stakeholders, projects, events, communication items, etc.

Aggregate and present data, translating complex information into concise, meaningful texts, graphs, and visuals.

To successfully apply please ensure that you have an up to date CV and be eligible to live and work in Luxembourg. We are not able to support visas or remote workers for this position.

We're looking for a Network Security Administrator to work as a freelancer for an important project based just outside of Munich (North). This is an 8 month freelance project, which will be on-site to begin with, then remove to fully remote work after set-up. There is potential for extensions.

You must speak English to a fluent business level. We're looking for someone with at least 5 years worth of experience. The day-rate for this position is between 350-420 Euros per day, depending on experience.

Skills & Experience:

- Web Ironport Cisco Web Security Appliance
- Cisco Content Security Management Appliance
- Mail Ironport Cisco Email and Web Manager
- Secure Mail CISCO Gateway
- Meinberg NTP
- Proxy Squid
- Postfix
- CheckPoint and CISCO Firewalls - Network and Firewall high knowledge is required.
- Tripwire
- Genucenter (Genuscreen) (desirable)
- McAfee EPO (desirable)

To be considered for this position, please apply with an up to date CV. You must also be eligible to live and work in the EU, with the ability to travel on-site in the initial stages of the contract.

We're looking for a Senior Windows Technical Admin for a freelance project based in Luxembourg for an ASAP start. This is a 12 month contract for a on-site position. 

The senior administrator must be able to solve complex Windows issues and investigate Windows problems. You will be responsible for the life cycle of the Windows servers at the operating system level from its installation to its decommission. You must also check daily reports regarding the health of the Windows servers and the System Centre infrastructure.

Functions/ Requirements:

SCCM

-Daily operations support of Enterprise SCCM Infrastructure.

-Create and distribute applications, collections, custom reports within SCCM system.

-Troubleshoot and remediate all failed SCCM deployments, client errors.

-Administer the SCCM tool set back end to ensure the system is performing as designed and optimum health based on Microsoft SCCM guidelines.

-Maintain SCCM core components, settings and software application delivery.

-Manage and administer SCCM client health including processes ensuring client communications.

-Efficiently execute product installations, product upgrades, patch installations and hot fix installations.

-Maintain and recommend maintenance window guidelines based on customer needs, bestpractices and industry / Microsoft proven methodology.

-Handle system imaging, application packaging and testing.

SCOM

- Analyzes, logs, tracks and resolves software/hardware matters issues.

- Monitors to isolate and diagnose common system problems; documents system events to ensure continuous functioning. Recommends course of action and implements as approved.

- Implementing notifications, subscriptions and alerting mechanisms

- Resolving incidents.

- Implementing and modifying management packs.

- Implementing performance captures.

- Perform administrative tasks and maintenance plans for the entire System Center Operations Manager infrastructure.

- Create and maintain monitoring and notification rules.

- Audit and scope customer access to SCOM alerts and data.

- Create reports on results of SCOM monitoring, using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) technology

Technologies/Skills:

Windows 2008/2012/2016 Administration

Working knowledge of Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)

Working knowledge of Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)

Working knowledge of Windows-based Servers, Operating systems, and Monitoring Software

Working knowledge of SQL is an asset

Working knowledge of Microsoft Orchestrator is an asset

Ability to work in team-oriented environment.

Interpersonal and communication skills, to navigate and manage customer expectations

Daily operational activities e.g. back-up control, other control activities

Working in shifts and oncall support

Experience using the Microsoft Windows PowerShell scripting engine to automate tasks with

SCOM & SCCM

To successfully apply, please have an up-to-date CV and be eligible to live and work in Switzerland. We are not able to offer sponsorship, or work with remote workers on this position.

We're looking for a KMS Specialist (Key Management System) as a freelance to join us on a one year contract for an exciting consultancy-based position. This is an on-site position, requiring someone based in Luxembourg. The rate for this position is between 325-375 Euros per day.

The KMS specialist will participate in design, implementation, operation of the new solution including handing over the activity.

Functions/ Requirements:

- Ability to create both current state and future state solution architecture documents. 

- Detailing platforms, technologies used integration and communication methods into and out of an application.

- Participate in projects to evaluate, design and deploy a Key Management Services relying on a Hardware Security Module platform on its potential usage scenarios (i.e. application based encryption or signing, encryption of virtualized infrastructures, encryption of communications based on keys managed by the platform among others).

- Supporting engineering activities, as identified, and facilitating the transition of engineering products into the operational environment

- Administering the Key Management Service (KMS) and the associated Hardware Security Modules (HSM)

- Document, recommend and review KMS related projects

- Administer the lifecycle of the platform

Technologies/Skills:

- 5+ years of experience in Information Technology.

- Must fulfil the requirements to obtain an EU security clearance.

- Experience with Key Management Systems (KMS) based on Hardware Security module (HSM) technology. 

- Direct experience with Thales products would be considered as a plus

- Knowledge on cryptography and related concepts, especially cryptographic ciphers and related hardware technologies as well as potential usages (authentication protocols and specifications, network encryption, virtualization encryption, PKI .

- experience with certificate-enabled technologies, software and tools, such as SSL/TLS, S/MIME, Authentication, 802.1X, Code Signing, OpenSSL, Microsoft CryptoAPI, Java Keystore.

- Expert level experience with PKI implementation and operation (especially the MS certificate services) and certificate and key lifecycle management solutions.

- Must have experience in managing Windows servers (preferably from 2016 onwards) and of the certificate deployment methods and management solutions inside an Windows based environment.

- Experience with Linux servers (preferably RHEL)

- Experience with certificate management using Microsoft MIM / FIM would be considered as a plus.

- Experience with VMWare products would be considered as a plus.

- Experience with ITIL, IT strategy, enterprise architectures, and similar IT and IT service concepts.

- Ability to manage multiple priorities, commitments, and projects.

- Must have good organizational and time management skills.

- Good interpersonal skills and the ability to work in a team environment and interact with all levels of management as well vendors and customers.

- Strong problem solving and Analytical/Reasoning skills.

- Excellent written and appropriate oral communication skills.

To successfully apply, please ensure that you are eligible to live and with in the EU, as well as work on-site in Luxembourg for the duration of the project.

We're looking for a Process and Major Incident Manager to join is as a freelancer for a 12 month freelance contract based in Luxembourg. The day-rate for this position is between 300-348 Euros per day.

The responsibilities are wide ranging including being the team lead, managing and coordinating Service Improvement initiatives and providing guidance to the team as appropriate. Interact with leadership, peers and customers: Assess and determine IT service request infrastructure and delivery requirements. Identify and escalate problems; provide administration, support for the team; including 3rd party.

Functions/ Requirements:

- Prioritize and execute tasks in a fast paced environment.

- Manage a team of technical individuals, goals and objectives, ensuring mentoring and assistance.

- Design, deploy, and maintain ITIL processes.

- Monitors the performance of processes and composes reports.

- Develop initiatives for continuous process improvements.

- Develop best practices for process improvements.

- Track and communicate status of improvement projects to management.

- Coordinates with stakeholders to develop process requirements.

- Properly and accurately records all defined problems and identified changes.

- Organize internal and external audits, assessments and coordinate implementation of the recommendations.

- Efficiently monitors and follow up P1/P2 Incident lifecycle through the execution of the Incident Management process.

- Coordinate, facilitate, communicate across teams/assets to drive resolution of major incidents and ensure all SLAs are achieved.

- Responsible for documenting the complete Major incident timeline.

- Escalation of risks and issues to management/executives.

- Coordinate the root cause analysis for P1/P2 incidents.

- Conduct analysis and provide input regarding P1/P2 and major incident trends.

- Complete ad-hoc and ongoing projects on a need basis.

- Manage major incidents by taking the necessary initiatives to lead resolution.

- Efficiently monitors and follows up P1/P2 Request lifecycle through execution of the Request Management process.

- Coordinate, facilitate, communicate across teams/resources to drive resolution of high priority requests and ensure all SLAs are met.

- Escalation of risks and issues to management/executives.

Technologies/Skills:

- Strong organizational skills.

- Strong ability to communicate and present findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.

- ITIL certification & deep understanding of service management.

- Solid knowledge of IT and Operations.

- Incident Manager Experience.

- 7+ years of IT experience in technical operational/support role(s) (e.g. information systems operations, systems analysis, development), with at least 5 year actively involved in Service Management and/or Process Management.

- 2-6 years of previous release and/or project management experience, (understanding of project management principles preferred)

- 8-10 years of experience in information systems operations environment in systems analysis or development.

- Knowledge of software development lifecycle is considered an asset.

- Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward task completion.

- Extremely organized, attention to details, great with time management.

- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with ability to communicate effectively.

- Ability to analyze trends, understand and interpret data.

- Reasonable depth of exposure/understanding of Business Continuity Management processes and best practices.

To successfully apply please ensure that you are eligible to live and work in the EU, as well as have an up-to-date CV. We are not able to support visa applications or remote workers at this time.