It's been made clear to me that one of the reasons I was hired for this job is my boss read the README files of some of my OSS projects and was impressed at how clear and detailed a writer I am.

Just in case you thought written-English wasn't a useful skill for a developer: It got me this job. Work on your writing skills if you want to survive in tech.

#Programming #GetFediHired #Writing

Hi! I'm looking for a job or gig! I live in the US (Central Indiana), and would much much rather work remotely.

I have system administration experience with #WindowsServer, #Linux, and #OpenBSD professionally. I strongly prefer the #BSD family of OSes and am willing to work with #NetBSD and #FreeBSD professionally and have played with them off the job. I have done this for about three years.

I also know graphic design. My preferred programs are #GIMP and #Inkscape, but I can use #Photoshop or #Illustrator if need be. I have done this for a decade.

I have skills in development, especially web development, and have professionally developed with #Javascript, #Python, and #Go. I also am trying to familiarize myself with #VisualBasic6 for legacy maintenance. I also have experience working with Microsoft #SQLServer databases, as well as played with other major SQL servers. I've also played with many other languages. I'm also willing to familiarize myself with a tech stack on the fly. As implied, I am willing to touch legacy code.

I have also designed websites, and am quite familiar with #HTML and #CSS. I also got #JQuery to play nicely as well.

I am a jack of all trades, with my strongest skills I feel be in system administration and graphic design.

LLMs and generative AI are something I prefer to avoid where possible. I have experience with working under tight deadlines with a micromanaging boss before recent hype around LLMs, though I'd rather avoid such things if possible.

#GetFediHired #FediHired #FediHire #JobSearch #Jobs

Probability of wanting to switch jobs soon has gone from "maybe" to "extremely likely" recently, so now public and boostable:

I'm looking for work. Software engineer, 14 years experience working on various SaaS things in various languages and frameworks, lots of linux sysadmin/electronics/firmware experience from side projects which I'd also be happy to put to use.

DM me for a resume if your company hires that sort of person.

Filters:
- based in Olympia, WA (US Pacific time zone, UTC-7/8), cannot relocate
- strongly prefer fully-remote, occasional travel within the US is okay
- not willing to work on military stuff
- I'm openly trans, company must be generally okay with that (that's the whole requirement, just "be okay with that", I ask for nothing more)
- I am currently paid $180K/year, but I'm past the "salary is less important than mental health" part of the diminishing-returns curve here so *shrug*

#fediHire #getFediHired

Hey, so, anyone out there looking to hire a remote nerd? I've spent the past 4-5 years doing threat hunting, detection engineering, threat intel, and incident response for large US West utilities. Gotta be full WFH though due to health reasons. Non-LinkedIn, non-ghost job links appreciated.

#getFediHired

I'm looking for work, please boost!

I'm a software engineer with 35 years of experience. I've worked across an unusually wide range of domains: mobile game backends, privacy-preserving data platforms, high-throughput COVID testing infrastructure, email and account systems, e-payment processing, job marketplace systems, and bioinformatics. I pick up new domains quickly and have a history of doing it repeatedly. I understand how to turn business needs into engineering requirements.

I prefer to work remotely but I am open to an in-office job in the Philadelphia area or especially in Philadelphia itself. I've often worked remotely since the 1990s and can operate with minimal supervision. Several of my favorite projects were self-directed: I identified the need, built the thing, and shipped it. My preferred time zone is America/New_York, but I'm flexible

Some of the many, many technologies I've used are: Python, Perl, TypeScript/JavaScript, Haskell, Go, C, Java. Postgres, MySQL, SQLite. Flask, SQLAlchemy. AWS (Lambda, S3, RDS, SQS, EC2). Docker, Git. Github and Gitlab.

I've also repeatedly picked up new languages and stacks as needed: Haskell for differential privacy research, TypeScript for a 24/7 AWS Lambda system, Flask for my most recent employer. I've become productive with new systems over and over, and I can do it quickly.

I'm published author (Higher-Order Perl, Morgan Kaufmann), longtime blogger, and conference speaker with a reputation for making complex ideas clear.

I am a U.S. citizen.

My résumé is at https://
plover.com/~mjd/cv/Mark%20Jason%20Dominus.pdf

mjd@pobox.com

Thanks!

#OpenToWork #remoteWork #softwareEngineering #Python #backend #hiring
#fediHire
#getFediHired

So I'm never going to ask the Fedi for money directly, but we are right out at the edge of our asses and it might soon be time to sell the house, which will only make the problems much worse. So here's a little #GetFediHired toot cause I ain't done that in a while, and I absolutely am available at rates that normal people can afford for small jobs - if I can hustle up 20 more hours/wk of work at my schoolbus wage, we will probably stay afloat until I find a real job again.

Mainly, I'm a Linux/Unix greybearded (hair remains stubbornly dark for some reason) wizard who can run for you a single or thousands of servers, using whatever stack you want. The only reason I don't have much in the way of public servers (ie. Fedi instances of my own) is that I literally doubt my ability to manage the money costs of even the tiniest server, under current circumstances. I don't stand up anything that can't disappear forever with nobody but me noticing. I have done this professionally though.

My main strength with systems, besides being willing to RTFM however boring, is that I can script every job away with great facility, so you might well have need of me and not even know it. Is there a thing you do every day that is the same steps every time, on a computer? I bet that if we sit and talk for a few minutes, I could figure out a way that a fairly quick Python script (again, my rates are very reasonable at the moment) could give you back hours of your life.

Side note: If any orgs that are funding Fediverse servers out there want specifically to sponsor a Fedi server for Manitoba's Interlake region, supporting Mastodon, Lemmy and probably PixelFed, I already have interlake.online ready to setup and would not take money for the hours spent managing it. Just, if I could have those hosting costs guaranteed by something other than my bad credit, servers is what I do with my time anyways, every day.

I can also teach you about Unix systems, help you internalize the concepts, etc - if you have been seeking a tutor for Linux/Unix servers, I am your guy. Identify your end goal ("I want to host all my own media and use Jellyfin," for instance) and I will walk you through the steps and concepts involved. In most cases, it will be pretty darn simple, probably, after you get comfortable with a few things.

That said, I specialize in the hopeless cases - I once was handed a guy who had risen through union ranks and never touched a computer and kinda refused to, until this new position, in which he absolutely had to, but was genuinely ignorant of everything, everything about them.

After three days with me, in which we drilled on the very very basics ("this is a mouse..."), he told me he was going out to buy himself a computer. I think it was realizing how useful google search... used to be.

I am not a hacker or security expert, not suitable for your colour teams or whatever. I know how to sanely secure a network and ensure data integrity, but as MWL puts it, nothing is secure, everything is horrible. We take our snapshots, do our backups, and be ready so when someone messes up, all I gotta do is restore the backups and everything is going again the same day. There's no beating them all the time everywhere, there's just being ready and solidly protected for the slipups.

Anyways, other than that I am musical and can knock off any non-gatekept music format you can provide a sample of. Like, if you want a song that hits more or less like your favorite metal track for your podcast theme, I can make a similar but original riff/orchestration, as long as the thing is comprehendable through "normal" music theory (meter, key, etc, are all stably defined is what I mean)). I'm sitting in my music studio's control room as I type, it doubles as my work from home office. Might be someone else's music studio soon I guess.

Can teach guitar and basics of some other instruments. No Music degree, just talent and years of doing it, see notes above on my teaching ability. I will keep you excited, doing the songs you want to learn.

And I'm not a bad rhetorician. If you need strong verbiage for any reason, show me the style you need and I can produce text for you.

Obviously most people will be using LLMs for that last one especially, but it absolutely is a talent of mine, as long as I fully understand what is desired. I can imitate most accents accurately if I listen to them for a while, but I can do that with text also.

I live in Manitoba, Canada, as you might have guessed, open to remote work in most places, subject to being able to verify your company actually exists. No AI used here, please respectfully do the same.

Hey Hey.

I got contacted about two job openings. Neither one of them appealed to me very much, as they don't pay more than what I'm making currently, and one of them required relocation, which I'm just not doing.

I'm not a recruiter, I'm not affiliated with either of these companies, I'm just posting open recs that didn't suit me. Good luck!

Security Engineeer Detection and Response at liftoff mobile: https://liftoff.ai/job/?gh_jid=7927490

Another Detection and Response Role at Flexport: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/flexport/jobs/8164847?gh_src=w044vhx71us

#Infosecjobs #GetFediHired

@kde #getfedihired

RE: https://layer8.space/@blizzz/117273960156093175

#GetFediHired

Still looking for a job in the private sector (pharma consulting, real-world evidence, outcomes research, medical writing, data science or ethics)

Looks like my funding will run out in January

Hoping for a job with a big pharma company, so if anyone here lives in that world or can help me get in, would appreciate very much

#GetFediHired

The city of Portland (Oregon) is hiring a data and privacy officer

https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/portlandor/jobs/5477089/city-data-and-privacy-officer?pagetype=jobOpportunitiesJobs

#Portland #Oregon #Data #Jobs #GetFediHired #CivicTech #GovernmentJobs

Caltrans is hiring a head of product

https://calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/Jobs/JobPosting.aspx?JobControlId=531688

#GetFediHired #Jobs #California #StateJobs #CivicTech #PublicInterestTechnology

Hey fedi;

do I know anyone in the PNW looking for a biochem doctorate? Asking for a friend. #GetFediHired

@miah Sorry to hear. Good luck jobhunting. #getfedihired

The State of Hawaii is hiring a senior product manager

https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/hawaii/jobs/5440173/senior-product-manager?sort=PostingDate%7CDescending&pagetype=transferJobs

#Jobs #GetFediHired #Hawaii #StateJobs #CivicTech #PublicInterestTechnology

I just lost my job today, so here we go..

I'm a ~30 years career Sysadmin/DevOps/Server Shepard/Graybeard whatever its called now UNIX nerd.

Looking for work doing UNIX'y stuff. I mostly do automation, and have avoided working with AI and Kubernetes (though I have a bit of k8s experience at two jobs, I just prefer "the old way")

Chef, Puppet, Cfengine, Ansible, Shell scripts, etc.

I've built Linux distributions, and automation tools. Having worked at Redhat, TurboLinux, Penguin Computing, Salesforce, and Chef.

Built and maintained monitoring systems, checks, and lived the on-call life.

Built and managed CI systems, and Pipelines.

I've written and maintained software in Ruby, Python, and Shell. I've dabbled in just about every other programming language you'll find on a UNIX system.

I have spent a lot of time with *BSD, Solaris, IRIX, and Linux, and to a lesser extent HPUX, and AIX.

If its sysadmin work on a UNIX, I've likely done it.

Remote only / West Michigan maybe / not willing to relocate

#getfedihired #unix #linux

Hey gang, I really need a job. UK, remote, something to do with computers.

I've been doing all sorts of software plumbing for a decade now, I can speak C, Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, even a bit of Assembly for certain architectures in a pinch.

I might not be extremely specialized in any one area but you bet I can solve that one nagging problem you're not sure what specialist you need for. I've done frontend, backend, embedded, everything.

Please boost!

#FediHire #getfedihired