timmahoney

KeyMe Locksmiths | IT Sysadmin | Remote | key.me

Fully automated self-service key duplicating kiosks can be found in over 7,000+ locations across the country in major retailers such as WalMart, Kroger, 7-Eleven, Menards, and many others.

We're hiring an IT Support Sysadmin to help manage and automate the hardware our employees use day to day, and the 7000+ kiosks we manage in the field. Linux, Windows, MacOS, SaltStack, Docker, AWS, with Terraform and Kubernetes.

Reach out to [email protected] and mention "IT Support Sysadmin" in the subject.

I've been using a Raspberry Pi to serve as a kubernetes master, with a few Intel NUCs to run as the workers, and I've loved it. The whole setup is small and cheap to run; I installed everything into a switch depth rack in my basement. I'm now trying to figure out how to add some GPU to the cluster, and I'm undecided whether to build a switch depth 3U server or go another route. Most people I've talked to with homelabs are running a full depth rack, so they can easily accommodate full size equipment, but I have size constraints so I can't fit something that large.

I have no ego about my code. As long as you're not being a "jerk" about it, I'm all for any opportunity to improve it. Constructive criticism is always welcome.

DevOps lead here; technically we have 2 week sprints, but we use kanban and basically add support tickets for each item that the team needs to work on during the sprint. This means that sometimes our "burndown" is more of a level line, but when that happens my manager understands, and we either determine the type of work that would reduce it or discuss adding more capacity. For tracking types of support tickets that come in, we try to determine which ones we can automate or heal completely so that those types of tickets dry up. Those items get roadmapped and worked down... eventually. It works OK, not perfect but I haven't found a better method so far, and everyone's happy with my team's work.

Interesting linkedin post from a colleague I used to work with.

I put together a silent pc earlier this year and I'll never go back. I had a Dell "new" XPS with 16 cores and 32GB on it, and the fan for the laptop itself runs 80% of the time, and even the docking station for it has a fan that runs pretty often. This thing in contrast never makes a single sound.

Not to mention, the work you perform while in that rested, ready state is of better quality than it would be otherwise.

I was working at Capital One a while back, and like most larger companies, they have a referral bonus and an internal recruitment website where you can refer candidates. They also have a personal link so that if you share it with a friend, and they apply, you get credit and the referral bonus automatically. You might know where this is going.

Every month I would post on Hacker News' "Who's Hiring" post with a rundown on a few of the positions we were hiring for, and while I was there I probably picked up referral bonuses for like 10 people.

In kubernetes I run external secrets, which is nice. I store The secrets in key value or file format in AWS Secrets Manager, which gets synchronized to the cluster into a secret. From there it gets mounted into the running pod via the envFrom or volume mount method.

I can't agree with this more. I find it extremely difficult to find something I want to watch, because I simply can't find out how to look at their entire library.

I’ve been buying mp3 albums from Amazon recently, which has been great because I can load them into my local MPD daemon for playback. I have a pandora account, which admittedly is how I discovered all this music in the first place, but MPD takes up next to no resources, so I end up using that most of the time!

I have a 24” x 18” whiteboard that has a Kanban layout on it. Smaller postit notes let me put a lot of things up and I follow the simple “Todo, In Progress, Done” column model. It’s on the wall at home where I have to look at it every day at least a few times.

Capital One | New York, NY | FULL TIME | ONSITE Check out open roles here: http://rolp.co/BDseb Or contact me directly, [email protected]

We've got open Positions for DevOps, Data, Software, Mobile

At Capital One, we’re building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We are succeeding because they are succeeding.

Capital One | New York, NY | FULL TIME | ONSITE

Check out open roles here: http://rolp.co/BDseb Or contact me directly, [email protected]

Open Positions:

- DevOps Engineers

- Data Engineers

-- Spark

-- Python

-- lots of others

- Software Engineers

-- Java

-- Scala

-- Python

-- Go

- Mobile Engineers

-- iOS

Levels from Mid - Lead available

At Capital One, we’re building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We are succeeding because they are succeeding.

Capital One | New York, NY | FULL TIME | ONSITE

Check out open roles here: http://rolp.co/BDseb Or contact me directly, [email protected]

Open Positions:

- DevOps Engineers

- Data Engineers

-- Spark

-- Python

-- lots of others

- Software Engineers

-- Java

-- Scala

-- Python

-- Go

- Mobile Engineers

-- iOS

Levels from Mid - Lead available

At Capital One, we’re building a leading information-based technology company. Still founder-led by Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard Fairbank, Capital One is on a mission to help our customers succeed by bringing ingenuity, simplicity, and humanity to banking. We measure our efforts by the success our customers enjoy and the advocacy they exhibit. We are succeeding because they are succeeding.

I'm currently working on a whole bunch of Ansible stuff, and I'm loving it. I definitely agree with the author that the docs for beginners are excellent. No experience with Salt as of yet, but I'll probably spin up a VM and screw around with it at some point.

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