How I failed to land a remote position

Re:How I failed to land a remote position by seorphates on Saturday July 08, 2017 @01:27PM (#14726258)

Is that one job or four? I see four distinct engineering disciplines in your post - Site Reliability - DevOps - Compute - Storage. The only two I would reasonably consider combining (in a day-to-day combined way) are the last two and even that's a risk for any largish operation. The first two do not benefit being combined and neither will garner the attention required to succeed. I would not apply unless you were small, generous and good to your community. Buy hey, if you threw in networking and security I'd know you have two boxes and need help and I'd bite out of sheer curiosity, like a shark, testing, tasting.

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Re:How I failed to land a remote position by late2part on Saturday July 08, 2017 @09:46PM (#14727996)

Your point of view is interesting but surprising. We are a small company and a small group, but I don't view (my definitions) of devops/sre as terribly dissimilar.

I think it's very reasonable to have one person responsible for compute storage and virtualization infrastructure.

I can see how a big company would specialize though.

Mail me if you're the least bit interested in a growing team with little shiny-chasing and lots of pragmatic engineering.

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Re:How I failed to land a remote position by seorphates on Monday July 10, 2017 @01:06PM (#14737733)

Yes, you're not wrong. I tend to think of the slightly larger, more complex scopes having multiple programs with many teams when looking at these things lately. This is just a small example of an impetuous reply not adding value and it didn't even reflect any real opinion that I may or may not hold.

I'm about a decade removed from any real "two-box shops" (small and/or startup focus etc.) and so sometimes think they can't possibly exist anymore. I see a few of the "we want the world" job postings and experience burnout just reading some of them.

"Pragmatic engineering" I like the sound of that but I'd secretly hope it's not meant to rhyme with "best practices" - I like good practices and all but I like and appreciate the actual games much more. :O) That's just a small parting snark - mostly harmless. Best of luck on your search! I'm trying to maintain some focus on data operations at the moment but with any luck my next jump attempt will be into something counter to current trends.

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