After my internship at Mozilla Europe last summer I was excited to have another opportunity to intern at Mozilla Corporation in my favorite branch of computer science: IT. My initial internship goals were deploying an IDS and working with Netflow solutions, projects that I looked forward to work on.
The result after nearly 4 months is that I mainly spent 4 months with awesome people, learning and using my knowledge on a wide range of really interesting projects, like security (investigating and deploying a full IDS solution, vulnerability scanners, deploying a WAF, dealing with Qualys alert, critical issues, permanent awareness), virtualization (investigating and staging a deploying in production container based virtualizations tools) , load balance (dealing with existing products, staging then deploying a GLB service with all the DNS modifications involved), desktop support (helping and satisfying the needs of the employees), emergency interventions (when something goes wrong on a weekend, everyone can help), network deployment (back to the roots of networking), operations on soon-to-be sites (deploying new hardware to increase the performance of the overall network or giving new resources to the employees), public relations (contacting companies all around the word by phone or by email to talk about how their software could help us and convince them to send us an evaluation version), and programming (mainly scripts). Another point that surprised me was the level of trust they place on a recently arrived intern.
To perform all these tasks, I had to discover new tools, read hundreds of pages of documentation, send a lot of emails, and ask an incalculable number of questions, which also contributed to improve my English.
Lastly, I am happy that most of my work is being or will soon be used in a production environment rather than just discarded and also that the Mozilla adventure will continue after this internship.
