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submitted 1 year ago by lwadmin@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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Lemmy.World is looking for 4 new Systems operators to help with our growing community.

Volunteers will assist our existing systems team with monitoring and maintenance.

We’re ideally looking for chill folks that want to give back to their community and work on our back-end infrastructure. Must have 4+ years of professional experience working in systems administration. We are not looking for junior admins at this time. Please keep in mind that, while this is a volunteer gig, we would ask you to be able to help at least 5-10 hours a week. We also understand this is a hobby and that family and work comes first.

Applicants must be okay with providing their CV and/or LinkedIn profile AND sitting for a video interview. This is due to the sensitivity of the infrastructure you will have access to.

We are an international team that works from both North America EST time (-4) and Europe CEST (+2) so we would ask that candidates be flexible with their availability.

If you are in AEST (+10) or JST (+9) please let us know, as we are looking for at least one Sysadmin to help out during our overnight.

You may be asked to participate in an on-call pool. Please keep in mind that this is a round-robin style pool, so it's alright if you're busy as it will just move along the chain.

If you're interested and want to apply, click here.

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[-] ja2@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Look forward to talking to you!

[-] Ab_intra@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not a a professional in the area of question, but if you need moderators for the instance I would love to help in any capacity that I can.

I've been a moderator on a large forum, one of the biggest in my country, and would love to help whatever way I can. But sysop is not something I've got experience unfortunately.

[-] jerrimu@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

If you need a janitor I can help but back end stuff is over my head.

[-] arin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I'm like a junior in experience but would love to help and especially learn how to help. I also have a lot of free time

[-] Secret300@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I'd love to help out one day but right now my experience is just hosting random things for fun that I find on github

[-] pizza-bagel@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

I'm curious what the backend looks like based on your requirements here... Ansible is always a red flag for me that your servers are pets not cattle. Just maintain a golden image, especially since you mention kubernetes. And if you're using self managed kubernetes USE REMOTE ETCD. Trust me, it will save you so much time and drama.

I wouldn't be interested unless it's paid so I am just throwing that out there for y'all to consider.

[-] girltwink@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Or just run everything in containers and use stock ubuntu or aws Linux or whatever.

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[-] squidzorz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I'm a noobie sysadmin so I don't have enough experience yet. Hope you guys find some people to help out!

[-] TheInsane42@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I totally hope you'll get enough admins to help out. Alas, I'm way to short on time to commit to this now. After 28y sysadmin and developing on Unix and Linux, I could use some project that is useful, but alas, no time to spare now. (Maybe later)

[-] ratherpleasent@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

No offense but you're asking for some crazy free labor. This would only make sense for college students or new grads trying to get experience. Why would I add another on-call shift to my existing career?

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[-] kylegordon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Do you get paid in Recognition Bucks?

[-] Rooki@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

They cant currently afford like another 4k expenses for a dedicated sysop engineer. It will destroy their savings for the instance and lw would get shut down in 3 months. The server costs are high too.