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Akiosan
May 21, 2005

We have to first get out of this bar, then the hotel, then the city, and then the country.

My experience: About 9 years of Windows Systems Administration. Citrix administration, threat hunting, SIEM, IPS/IDS, Virtualization, Azure AD, Active Directory, and Firewall administration.
What I'm looking for: Cybersecurity jobs, IAM, System Administration, anything that I can develop and hone my skills
What I'm NOT looking for: No help desk, nothing that has constant on call. Good work/life balance
Where I live: Columbia, MD
When I can start: 1 month from offer
Requirements: Competitive salary, prefer remote but hybrid near Columbia works as well
Can be reached: PM. Can provide resume, LinkedIn profile.

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Super-NintendoUser
Jan 16, 2004

COWABUNGERDER COMPADRES
Soiled Meat
I've been at my job for a bit now, and I'd like to see what else is around, so here goes. I've helped 4 or 5 goons get a job on this here thread, so maybe it's my turn. I have a wide range of technical experience, but I've tried to ship from delivery/operations to a TAM or architect role. I'm a TAM right now, I enjoy it, but I want to see if there's any better roles around:


My experience:
  • 15 years Linux systems adminstration
  • 7 years DevOps, cloud operations,
  • 5 years pre-sales architect/solutions architect/TAM
  • Extension automation and scripting experience (Ansible, Python, Terraform)
  • Professional level AWS certification
  • Comfortable with authentication (SSO, SAML)
  • Communication and encryption protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, TLS, SSL, SIP, etc)

What I'm looking for: TAM, pre-sales engineer, solutions architect for a technology company. I'd be interested in a delivery or operations role if the money was good.
What I'm NOT looking for: eh, I'm open to anything really.
Where I live: Northern NJ, close enough to commute into NYC
Where I'm looking: NYC or remote
When I can start: I can give notice whenever
Requirements: Health insurance, full time, 401k, ideally some stock options, bonuses, mid-senior level position
Can be reached via: PM, ericcorp@gmail.com

sloshmonger
Mar 21, 2013
I'm tired of MSPs.

My experience: 15 years in IT, last three as senior engineer at a national MSP. Handled everything from pre-sales technical writing, network, cloud and systems architecture, project implementation. Also escalations. So many escalations. Last few years have been doing mentorship and defining the engineer role company wide.
What I'm looking for: A job focusing on automation and DevOps / Infrastructure engineering, cloud or on-prem. I'd consider a management role.
What I'm NOT looking for: Help desk, MSP, or something with a lot of driving local driving.
Where I live: Los Angeles area
Where I'm looking: Los Angeles area, or remote
When I can start: Pretty much as soon as possible, given appropriate notice for my current employer
Requirements: Health insurance, full time.
Can be reached via: PM, on gmail.com at username

w00tmonger
Mar 9, 2011

F-F-FRIDAY NIGHT MOTHERFUCKERS

Current job is getting a bit intense for my liking, and just got aquired so want to weigh out my options with another company

My experience:
-2ish years of full stack development
-5 years of test automation experience working with selenium, pupetteer, browserstack, and a bunch of other tools for development
-ive been working in an agile/scrum development environment using github, jira, various AWS integrations and all the other stuff you'd expect for the role
-tons of experience prior to being a dev as a helpdesk IT guy
-run a 3d printing business so tons of experience dealing with customer requirements


What I'm looking for: a QA automation role, or similar SDET role with a company that values the position.
What I'm NOT looking for: not super familiar with the mobile testing end of things but happy to learn
Where I live: Calgary alberta
Where I'm looking: ideally remote, but if you're in Calgary we can talk
When I can start: have to give notice, need to look up timeframes as I've been here for 7 years
Requirements: usual benefits you'd expect for the role, competitve wage, a good work/life balance
Can be reached via: PM, or username@gmail.com

A Frosty Witch
Apr 21, 2005

I was just looking at it and I suddenly got this urge to get inside. No, not just an urge - more than that. It was my destiny to be here; in the box.

A Frosty Witch posted:

My experience: 15+ years in various industries, from television, to education, to healthcare. More recently focused on project management, team leadership, and process development/consulting. Have coordinated and overseen numerous projects, including new constructions and total replacements of tech infrastructure.

What I'm looking for: Full-time, primarily remote project management or process consulting would be preferable. Comfortable with helpdesk supervision, but would prefer to distance myself from tech support at this point in my career.

What I'm NOT looking for: Contract work, helpdesk, MSPs.

Where I live: Denver, CO.

Where I'm looking: Remote, Denver, Portland, Toronto.

When I can start: Immediately

Requirements: Full-time, remote or commutable, ~$85k

Can be reached via: PM, [username]@gmail.com

Reposting as I've been laid off and this is now a more critical search than previously.

Giganticon
Mar 10, 2010

Pillbug
I am hoping for some general advice from some sympathetic professionals.

So my sister has had a rough few years, her husband hosed off to Belize with some lady, leaving my sister with their two kids, one severely handicapped. she has been supporting all of them but had to stop working when he left. I'm doing real well and supported them for a bit, Oregon aid was generous and useful regarding helping her son. Our dad died and we got some.generational wealth transfer which took the pressure off further. She now owns a house in a fair neighborhood and can ride out the next few years before she has to go back to work. With this opportunity she was hoping to change careers.

She had been most recently a project manager for a construction supply firm, but has done many other things. Her plan now is to take this time and money and learn coding so she can hopefully by the time her daughter starts highschool she can be working somewhere in the CS space. She's not starting school directly at the bottom, she has a bachelor's degree in economics and communications, but no real computer stuff.

So where she is is presumably where many offers you were 10,15 years ago - taking some community college classes to see if she likes and could be good at it.

So my question for you all is if you were starting over today what would you focus on? What of these skills /classes can turn into money at the end? Any tips you would give yourself? What credentials are actually respected? Do you need a full BS in CS or are there other paths to employment? What skills do employers want? I and she would.apreciate any advice y'all have.

KillHour
Oct 28, 2007


The Working in IT thread in SH/SC might be better for this, but does she want to be a software developer? Because if not, I can't imagine a BS in CS would be worth it over getting a couple certs and spending that time actually working in IT. Even if she does want to be a software developer, I feel like a degree is probably a lot more time and effort than its worth in terms of pay.

Project management is a thing in IT, too, so you could look at that as a potential entry point.

mewse
May 2, 2006

Giganticon posted:

What skills do employers want? I and she would.apreciate any advice y'all have.

I've unfortunately not had any real corporate experience but a couple of the more valuable certs I've seen have been CCNA (cisco) for networking, and ISACA for cybersecurity. I think the field for security is still decent with companies gearing up for modern threat landscape blah blah

Chevy Slyme
May 2, 2004

We're Gonna Run.

We're Gonna Crawl.

Kick Down Every Wall.

Giganticon posted:

I am hoping for some general advice from some sympathetic professionals.

So my sister has had a rough few years, her husband hosed off to Belize with some lady, leaving my sister with their two kids, one severely handicapped. she has been supporting all of them but had to stop working when he left. I'm doing real well and supported them for a bit, Oregon aid was generous and useful regarding helping her son. Our dad died and we got some.generational wealth transfer which took the pressure off further. She now owns a house in a fair neighborhood and can ride out the next few years before she has to go back to work. With this opportunity she was hoping to change careers.

She had been most recently a project manager for a construction supply firm, but has done many other things. Her plan now is to take this time and money and learn coding so she can hopefully by the time her daughter starts highschool she can be working somewhere in the CS space. She's not starting school directly at the bottom, she has a bachelor's degree in economics and communications, but no real computer stuff.

So where she is is presumably where many offers you were 10,15 years ago - taking some community college classes to see if she likes and could be good at it.

So my question for you all is if you were starting over today what would you focus on? What of these skills /classes can turn into money at the end? Any tips you would give yourself? What credentials are actually respected? Do you need a full BS in CS or are there other paths to employment? What skills do employers want? I and she would.apreciate any advice y'all have.

Honestly, if she likes Project Management and just wants to pivot into tech, a code bootcamp (or self-study through one of the hundreds of "Learn 2 Programmer" websites/youtube courses/books/whatever) might be the right call here, to get her up to speed with a new technical field to which she can apply the skills she already has.

Lockback
Sep 3, 2006

All days are nights to see till I see thee; and nights bright days when dreams do show me thee.
Or go through a Scrum master bootcamp and do that. Some coding also helps with that.

Giganticon
Mar 10, 2010

Pillbug
Thanks for the info everyone, I appreciate it.

Necronomicon
Jan 18, 2004

My current position involves an incredible amount of work dealing with the principal software engineer's insistence on reinventing the wheel at every possible opportunity and it's finally starting to get to me. I'm putting out feelers now; hopefully to land some interviews during the second half of parental leave I have coming up. I'm a DevOps engineer with a focus on Terraform.

My experience:

8 years Linux "sysadmin" type work with the big three cloud providers, 90% on AWS. I also have on-prem experience.
5 years more focused DevOps work - configuration management (Puppet, Ansible), CI/CD (Travis CI, GitHub Actions), main focus on IAC w/ Terraform

What I'm looking for: Another DevOps role, really. Preferably on a team, not as the sole DevOps hire.
What I'm NOT looking for: Anything involving billable hours. I used to work for an MSP and I hated it.
Where I live: Western MA, close enough to commute to Springfield, MA.
Where I'm looking: 100% remote. Hopefully on East Coast hours but I'm not gonna be super picky.
When I can start: Ideally in early September after a chunk of parental leave is over.
Requirements: Health insurance, 401k. Bonuses would be nice. I don't really care about stock options if it's a startup.
Can be reached via: PM, imcuster@gmail.com

Necronomicon fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Jun 2, 2023

Blurb3947
Sep 30, 2022

Blurb3947 posted:

My experience: Decade of various desktop support, system administration, network admin, and light cloud work. Almost done with the AWS cloud compute degree at WGU and will have a couple more AWS certs.
What I'm looking for: Any sort of AWS admin or operations work
What I'm not looking for: Customer or end user support poo poo
Where I'm looking: USA Remote only
When can I start: 2 weeks from offer
Requirements: $110k+, work/life balance is a must
Can be reached: Private message

Quoting as I recently was laid off so I'm looking for almost anything right now. Have my Comptia trifecta and Cloud+, AWS CCP, Linux essentials and have experience with Windows Server poo poo.

digitalist
Nov 17, 2000


journey into Kirk's unknown


No longer needed

digitalist fucked around with this message at 13:18 on Jul 24, 2023

navyjack
Jul 15, 2006



digitalist posted:

My experience: I have been working in IT since 2000, went from web development to full stack, then sysadmin, and since ~2018 infosec. The most important infosec project I was responsible for involved linking OWASP's OpenSAMM to specific client requirements, doing research in academic/technical sources and writing recommendations/reports. Did a detour through Academia to get an MA in Sociology (looking at how hackers engage in transparency and accountability practices) but COVID derailed my thesis, hard to conduct an ethnography during a pandemic. I'm taking some time to fill out gaps in my knowledge studying for a few certs, Security+, OSCP, CompTIA Linux+.

What I'm looking for: The opportunity to learn new things and grow.
What I'm NOT looking for: A job where I'll learn nothing.
Where I live: Québec City, but would be happy to relocate to Montréal, Oregon, or Europe. Fluent in French/English, B2 German and A1 Polish.
When I can start: Today, but wouldn't be opposed to having a week or two before a start.
Requirements:
Can be reached: PM, happy to provide email, CV, etc..

PornHub was looking for a security guy in Montreal p recently! Be a fun job to tell people about! :haw:

I want to move to Canada and be a cybersecurity guy I just need a Canadian company to headhunt me

LionYeti
Oct 12, 2008


My Experience: 10 years of some kind of technical support, 6 years of that being Desktop Service/help desk and then 2 of that being Jr Systems Admin work on top of Help Desk. Was A+ Certified and could probably easily get it again. I did a bunch of Active Directory support, on boarding and off boarding. I spun up a Microsoft Intune instance at my old job. I have dealt with Microsoft 365 , Slack Administration, Azure AD and Google Workspace in the cloud space. I coordinated 2 office moves and 2 windows 7 to 10 transitions at other jobs. Took care of everyone from new hires to CEO at all previous jobs. Been promoted multiple times throughout my career and love to fix stuff.

What I'm looking for: The opportunity to learn the server and virtualization stuff that I haven't gotten to round out my skill set. The opportunity to fix problems.
What I'm NOT looking for: Not looking for 1099 contract work or any contract below 1 year in length
Where I live: Denver Colorado fine to commute anywhere in the metro area
When I can start: Today just got laid off so its a little more urgent.
Requirements: 401k Medical Dental Decent PTO 70k or above for w2 90 for 1099 contract
Can be reached PM's or corbin.greene21@gmail.com

ilkhan
Oct 7, 2004

I LOVE Musk and his pro-first-amendment ways. X is the future.

LionYeti posted:

My Experience: 10 years of some kind of technical support, 6 years of that being Desktop Service/help desk and then 2 of that being Jr Systems Admin work on top of Help Desk. Was A+ Certified and could probably easily get it again. I did a bunch of Active Directory support, on boarding and off boarding. I spun up a Microsoft Intune instance at my old job. I have dealt with Microsoft 365 , Slack Administration, Azure AD and Google Workspace in the cloud space. I coordinated 2 office moves and 2 windows 7 to 10 transitions at other jobs. Took care of everyone from new hires to CEO at all previous jobs. Been promoted multiple times throughout my career and love to fix stuff.

What I'm looking for: The opportunity to learn the server and virtualization stuff that I haven't gotten to round out my skill set. The opportunity to fix problems.
What I'm NOT looking for: Not looking for 1099 contract work or any contract below 1 year in length
Where I live: Denver Colorado fine to commute anywhere in the metro area
When I can start: Today just got laid off so its a little more urgent.
Requirements: 401k Medical Dental Decent PTO 70k or above for w2 90 for 1099 contract
Can be reached PM's or corbin.greene21@gmail.com
I've a similar history so let me know if you find something interesting, remote or Loveland/Greelee/FoCo. Not there yet but looking to make the jump at some point.

The Gallows
Aug 10, 2007

Yip-yip-yip-yip... Uh-huh.
My Experience: I completed a 6-month FSE boot camp last August focusing on Postgres/Express/React/Node and was at a local spot primarily working front end with Node / React / GraphQL for 5 months until the company decided to lay off 4 of the 6 developers. With this time off, I took an AWS cloud practitioner essential course through New Horizon and recently got SMC certified. Before these classes and work, I have been a long time service industry worker. I’ve managed bar programs, ran events, and have been a corporate trainer for the last 12+ years.


What I'm looking for: Something more Associate role with the opportunity to learn more backend or maybe a Business Analyst role. Remote is ideal but at this point, I would do Hybrid and in-person in Twin Cities (Minnesota) area.
What I'm NOT looking for: Something over 20 miles of St Paul.
Where I live: Minnesota Twin Cities
When I can start: Today
Requirements: Full Time around 70k if possible.
Can be reached PM's or sportsballenthusiast@gmail.com

EDIT: If anyone has a way to get LinkedIn Premium for not 40 dollars a month, I'm all ears on that after I've used my free trial already and had a 50% two months that I have used as well.
Thanks, fellow Goon! Now I can spy on people that come to my page and do some LinkedIn Learning to fill in some gaps.

The Gallows fucked around with this message at 20:48 on Jul 11, 2023

gey muckle mowser
Aug 5, 2003

Do you know anything about...
witches?



Buglord
My current job is getting to be a drag, I am seriously underutilized and very bored. Despite promises that I will be assigned more interesting work, given a team to work under me, etc, none of that has materialized and I'm about ready to move on.

My experience: 6-ish years IT management and administration, another 5 years prior to that working QA in an agile development environment. I ran the IT department at a medium sized credit union (5 branches) entirely by myself for several years doing basically everything from fixing printers to presentations for the board of directors. Eventually hired a small team to assist with level 1/2 stuff, and in my current role I am part of a larger team with a somewhat more focused role. I enjoy and am good at working with people, both in a supervisory capacity and with assisting end users.

What I'm looking for: Ideally managing a small team/help desk or another leadership role. Room for growth is important.
What I'm NOT looking for: Lower/entry level help desk
Where I live: Central NY, remote work OK
When I can start: I would like to give at least 2 weeks notice to my current employer
Requirements: Full time, $90k+ but can be flexible depending on the company and position
Can be reached: PM or dpiwinski at gmail dot com

Cyber Punk 90210
Jan 7, 2004

The War Has Changed
I work in the BlackRock building and I'm getting tired of lockdowns and bomb threats.

My experience: 15 years in IT doing a little of everything. Experience with POS, EHR, and ERP software. Previously a Jr Network Admin. Jamf 100 cert, comfortable using Active Directory. I've even done A/V stuff.
What I'm looking for: In office IT support in NYC, fine with remote work though
What I'm NOT looking for: help desk
Where I live: Brooklyn
Where I'm looking: Greater NYC area
When I can start: As soon as possible. My manager is also looking for other work for the same reason
Requirements: full time.
Can be reached via: ChristopherMontanye@gmail.com

Any referrals to a recruiter would be welcome

Cyber Punk 90210 fucked around with this message at 21:42 on Jul 18, 2023

MJP
Jun 17, 2007

Are you looking at me Senpai?

Grimey Drawer
We're redoing the JD since it has some outdated crap, but will post it soon. Until then, is anyone interested in being a manager/director of a desktop engineering/app deployment/device management team?

We are an ad agency/adtech company in lower Manhattan. The role would be a mix of managing the aforementioned team and being hands-on-keyboard as well. The team consists of one specialist who does Powershell and Python scripting for the IT infrastructure team, and one other guy who does Intune, Workspace1, application packaging and deployment, desktop OS patching, group creation automation (e.g. automatic joining of AD groups based on user attributes through an application whose name escapes me at the moment), and escalated tickets involving the above from the helpdesk.

You'd also be doing some form of executive support - I'm not sure what exactly, likely ensuring that the one-offs who sign paychecks and don't want to do MFA at least have other stuff to keep them safe and unphished. Not ideal, I know, but it's not me making the job spec.

You'd report to an SVP of Infrastructure; the role is titled as a director but it's really more of a manager.

I'm not sure of the pay but they're pretty decent in compensating me as an Azure engineer/architect. Benefits are decent - healthcare through UMR, but we pay less than my wife who works for CVS corporate pays, and they own a drat health insurance company. The role would be hybrid - Tues/Thurs in office starting in September, Tues/Wed/Thurs starting in January. Unfortunately they can't do 100% remote - one of the first things on the plate is finishing off a migration and the in-person time is probably necessary. Location is really close to the 1 train stop for Canal Street, so it's not an awful commute.

LMK if you're interested; I can pass your details along and can send the posting once it's available.

Edit: the posting is getting updated as soon as HR can get it up, but here's the details for the curious. Don't be deterred if you aren't 100% on every single requirement - the one big thing is they need someone who has management experience and understands the technology while still being OK with the occasional VIP white-glove support situation.

Edit 2: the job posting is available, please PM me if you'd like the link!

MJP fucked around with this message at 14:24 on Aug 3, 2023

digitalist
Nov 17, 2000


journey into Kirk's unknown


No longer needed

digitalist fucked around with this message at 13:18 on Jul 24, 2023

Vile_Nihlist666
Jan 15, 2009

I'm a special kind of asshole!
I work for, simultaneously, a residential PC repair shop and a small MSP with 17 commercial clients and numerous regular break fix clients. Bouncing between type like that sucks, the pay sucks, and I can't find time to pursue new knowledge and certs. This is my first IT job, been doing it for a little under 3 years, and I'm ready to move on to better things.

Experience:

Over 2.5 years working in both residential repair and as a System Admin/Tech for a MSP with 17 clients ranging up to 70+ users. Primarily Windows systems. Work including server config, recovery solutions, some networking setup and configuration, desktop support, hardware troubleshooting, Office 365 admin, AD, and related tasks. Familiar with Connectwise, Continuum, et al.

Know and use Linux daily as an enthusiast, though haven't touched it in an enterprise environment.



What I'm Looking For: Help Desk or Sys Admin as part of an experienced team for, preferably, ONE company.
What I'm NOT looking for: MSP work.
Where I live: Bradenton, Florida
Where I'm Looking: Anywhere within 60ish miles of here, or another state if the opportunity is really really good. I'd do remote as well, but have never worked a fully remote job before, so I'm not sure what that would entail from me.
When can I start: 2-4 weeks after hire. Don't want to burn bridges with this company, and they will be in tough spot when I leave; they only have one other tech, and he only handles the commercial side.
Requirements: Full Time,
Can be reached via: laserdiscdisciple@gmail.com, or PM

Maneki Neko
Oct 27, 2000

I work for a later stage but still pre IPO startup SaaS company in an interesting space (not porn) and we've got a few positions open, happy to chat more about them via DM or email - vedichymn at gmail.com

We're 100% remote, but you must be in the US and able to work in the US without sponsorship.

We're looking for:

Senior level positions:

  • Database Reliability Engineer - Primarily focused on MS SQL Server running in public cloud, but experience in other database technologies would also be nice
  • Data Engineer - This is on our data engineering team and covers data extraction, analytics, data warehousing, etc.
  • .NET Developer

Not senior level position:

  • Systems Engineer - This is internal IT covering our corporate identity/access management (Okta), endpoint management (Macs), SaaS/cloud app admin work (Google workspace, slack, atlassian stuff, etc. Extra bonus if you have Jira experience), support escalations

Jiro
Jan 13, 2004

Jiro posted:


So I am definitely in the market to hopefully find better stable employment.

Former Current Work : IT Help Desk working full remote

My experience: Six years managerial customer service, along with 1 yr 9 months of tech based IT support, providing security clearances, working with Amazon Service Now, Azure, Windows 10, some iOS work.
Education: Associate Degree in Digital Forensic Analysis and Associate Degree in Cybersecurity Analysis, currently studying for some of the relevant CompTIA certs (Network+, Security+)
What I'm NOT looking for: General Help Desk stuff unless the price is right $45k/ year and up.
What I'm looking for: IT Security Analyst, Data Security Analyst, ANYTHING entry level in Cybersecurity analysis. I'm just looking to get my start in that industry and move forward.
Where I live: McAllen, Tx
Where I'm looking: Remote, I can't move as my fiancée just started post grad work and also works for our county in an actual office. On top of that any "tech" work here starts at $13.00/hr.
When I can I start: ASAP
Requirements: Full-Time
Can be reached via: via PM or Garcia.ddg01@gmail.com

Quoting myself in hopes of finding something, still been looking since Mid January, end of February was when the gig ended. This poo poo sucks it's really hard to not be disheartened.

Super-NintendoUser
Jan 16, 2004

COWABUNGERDER COMPADRES
Soiled Meat

Jiro posted:

Quoting myself in hopes of finding something, still been looking since Mid January, end of February was when the gig ended. This poo poo sucks it's really hard to not be disheartened.

Pm sent

air-
Sep 24, 2007

Who will win the greatest battle of them all?

My experience: 7+ years experience in AWS, generalist devops/automation etc, overall 10+ years experience working in IT
What I'm looking for: IC level role as a devops/cloud infrastructure/platform engineer, SRE, or similar - prefer to stay hands on
What I'm NOT looking for: lead/management, ideally no oncall rotation
Where I live: NYC
When I can I start: asap
Requirements: 100% remote, full time with benefits etc, may consider hybrid for something exceptional
Can be reached: PM

Beaucoup Cuckoo
Apr 10, 2008

Uncle Seymour wants you to eat your beans.
Currently working in a pretty toxic environment - so looking for something new.

Current Work: Managing help desks for a US based mid-market Microsoft Partner (Dynamics 365, Navision, Great Plains and CE, 12 employees)

My Experience:
- About 2 years of ERP implementation consulting for a domestic, mid-market ERP Partner
- About 5 years of experience working for one of the larger cannabis companies in the US
Did a bunch of things here:
- Was one of the employees the longest seat time, so was often consulted for any little thing about how the company worked and wore a lot of hats
- Managed a BA team responsible for application implementation and support (ERP, POS, Cultivation management, quality management, learning management systems)
- Spearheaded a buttload of ERP launches across the country for operations that didn't even know what a PO was (managed team of 5)
- Did regulatory compliance, mostly related to facilities and cannabis
- Lots of project managing and working alongside dev teams
- Worked in manufacturing and fulfillment, lots of inventory audits and was involved in lean/six sigma process improvement projects
- Lots of other fun and interesting experience in the cannabis industry (retail, cultivation)

Education: Got a philosophy degree :whatup:

What I'm looking for: Not really sure - open to a lot of things.
Where I live: Las Vegas
Where I'm looking: Remote, but open to relocating depending on the location where I'd be down for a hybrid setup
When I can I start: Probably within a month of when I give notice, maybe less
Requirements: Full-Time
Can be reached via: via PM

Beaucoup Cuckoo fucked around with this message at 21:34 on Aug 5, 2023

thalweg
Aug 26, 2019

Maybe a long shot for this thread, as I'm fresher into the IT industry looking for entry-level work. But figured it can't hurt to post:

My current role: 1 year as a "Field Support Technician," a mix of help desk and IT logistical/grunt work. It's a windows environment and I work a bit with Windows servers in our offices, and do on site install, hardware troubleshooting, and some network/equipment setup. We are migrating apps to Azure and moving away from physical servers, but I unfortunately don't get to help with that aside from explaining to users who call in what's going on and making sure they can use the interim solutions. Support calls range from basic password reset type stuff, to doing more involved software troubleshooting over remote desktop as my company uses some pretty complex internal software. There's also printer, network, and some payment system support. I've gotten to do some remote terminal stuff sometimes with the servers too which is cool. We use Salesforce CRM (i think that's what sf suite it is anyway) for a ticketing system and I do some documentation of the field work to keep my district info more up to date and accurate.

My experience: Before IT, I worked for about 8 years in the wine industry, and got to do a bunch of different fun things during that time. I did retail, production, and even had a failed importing project. I've got a lot of hours of customer service and sales experience and some managerial chops. A lot of the soft skills I picked up from this time have been really helpful so far - listening to people to figure out what they need or want, being able to meet them on the same level so we know what has to be done/fixed, breaking down technical geek stuff into layman's terms, building long term relationships with customers or vendors or suppliers, or doing inventory and budgeting. I even got to drive a tractor and a forklift. Who knows, it could come in handy again someday. What I'm working on now is building up the technical knowledge. I've been into computers and tech my whole life as an enthusiast, but didn't really consider it as a career field until recently. I've got an A+ which helped me get into my first IT job, and an AZ-900 and am gearing up to take some more meaningful certs, starting with Sec+ and Net+. I've used linux, mainly ubuntu, just on my own for curiosity/fun and am pretty comfortable with it but we don't use it in my current work environment. I'm starting to get some of the very basics of javascript scripting on my own self-directed time, and am working through some MS learn material before checking out AWS. Basically I want to round out my knowledge and have a good grasp of a lot of foundations before picking any specific direction to go in later in my career. I like a lot of the social aspects of help desk, but I don't want to do it forever. I would love to be able to jump from support into entry level sysadmin work, and maybe someday security analyst/engineer or cloud roles.

Education I have a BSci in Environmental Science & Geology. Rocks are cool.

What I'm looking for: Help desk or desktop support is fine, but ideally not tier I type stuff or a call center environment. I'd love more opportunities to be involved in stuff beyond support - administration, work with scripting/automation, deployment, and anything security. My current role doesn't allow a lot of opportunities for learning or advancement at all, and I'd like to be somewhere that does. I'm open to MSP work depending on the amount of driving.
What I'm NOT looking for: Something where I'm on the road constantly, a micromanaged call center environment.
Where I live: Olympia, WA. Would love remote but not expecting it. Can commute to Tacoma area. Seattle on a hybrid schedule could be a possibility depending on the job.
When I can start: September/October
Requirements: Full time, benefits. $50K or more.
Can be reached: PM

thalweg fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Aug 14, 2023

Organic Lube User
Apr 15, 2005

Welp, got laid off and unemployment is being lovely, and things are getting pretty desperate, so here's my shot:

My current role: I was just laid off two months ago from working in the warehouse and doing deliveries for a marijuana edibles company that I was with for over 4 years. The industry is in a major downswing and is jettisoning employees. I was responsible for delivering product to dispensaries, tracking warehouse inventory, approving and picking orders, and producing spreadsheets designed to help with the backend work of all of that. I personally implemented changes to our order picking processes that allowed us to go from being able to assemble a puny 50 skus per employee per day, to each employee being able to handle 300 packages per day.
However, this is not the industry I started out in, and I don't feel like I want to stay in it, so I'm looking to return to IT work.

My experience: I started doing break/fix work in the mid 90s at mom-n-pop computer stores, which is the work I truly love doing. I was even in talks at one point to buy the business from one of my employers, but research revealed some shady accounting practices and I pulled out of the deal. Then I started doing more corporate and commercial deskside support, which evolved into help desk roles and eventually a couple of incident management roles, which i also enjoyed. However, some health emergencies in my family resulted in my having to leave the most recent incident management position, which is when I decided to give the cannabis industry a shot. My intent was to find a growing company and try to work my way into being their IT specialist, but in practice, every cannabis company is using managed service providers and could care less about handling IT in-house. I found an inventory management role that allowed me to still use a lot of my IT expertise to improve the efficiency of the position; I created spreadsheet dashboards to help upper management visualize the daily state of the company's inventory across several grow locations, implemented a web server to run an e-learning site (Moodle) to introduce training modules to new hires and reduce onboarding time and increase employee reliability.
But, as I mentioned, I am not really looking to remain in this industry any longer. I feel like I need to return to my roots, even if that means having to suck it up and do entry level phone support jobs starting back out. I've got all sorts of remote work experience, starting from when I implemented VNC across a college campus back in 2001. I've dabbled in some form of remote access technology throughout my IT career. I've also done light web design, run my own web and mail server, and been a general jack-of-all-trades.

Education I did a year of college just over 10 years ago and did great, but was again derailed by having to move away to care for a sick relative. So just High School Diploma for now.

What I'm looking for: Ideally I'd like to be in a role which can be done remotely, as I'm a dad now and being able to work from home would be amazing for my family. So I'm fine with help desk work or any administrative work if it enables that. Otherwise I'm open to anything in the Denver, CO area. I love building, fixing, and upgrading computers, and I can run network cable as well. MSP work would be fine as well.

What I'm NOT looking for: End user phone support. I feel like my days of talking to the average person on the street about their tech problems are over and done. I wanna help coworkers.

Where I live: Denver, CO. Not really open to relocating, but I'll happily work remotely.

When I can start: Yesterday.

Requirements: $45k, benefits.

Can be reached: Private message or reply.

Neito
Feb 18, 2009

😌Finally, an avatar the describes my love of tech❤️‍💻, my love of anime💖🎎, and why I'll never see a real girl 🙆‍♀️naked😭.

My current role: A technical account manager for a VOIP/UCaaS company that you've probably heard of.

My experience: 6 years of Tier 2 support, 1 year of technical account management.

Education: Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science, CCNA (with about 30 months left before renewal is required)

What I'm looking for: Technical roles with significant personal interaction (such as a TAM role), Tier 3+ Support, Networking, or management; fully remote or at least hybrid

What I'm NOT looking for: Tier 1/2 support, helpdesk, or fully in-office roles.

Where I live: Between Boston and Providence.

When I can start: Two weeks from offer.

Requirements: $75k+

Can be reached: PM.

madsushi
Apr 19, 2009

Baller.
#essereFerrari
JOB POSTINGS:

Who we are: Bungie - a video game developer. We used to make Halo, and now we're making Destiny 2 (and other projects). We have over 1000 employees, and millions of players worldwide.

Where we are: Bellevue, WA. (for this position, hybrid/flex would be strongly preferred. Full remote could be considered, but would require some travel and on-site work a couple of times per year)

What we're looking for:
Storage Administrator

We're looking for someone to help admin our storage systems. We have a lot of SMB storage appliances (NetApp, etc), with lots of various use cases. The posting talks about a variety of storage tech (block, file, NFS, etc), but the main skill we're looking for is proficiency with SMB in a Windows environment (we can teach/train the rest). If you're familiar with SMB, NTFS permissions, DFS, Kerberos (have you ever typed in `klist` before?), etc, then you would be a good fit for this job. Obviously would be cool if you have specific storage experience too (NetApp, RAID protection, block, etc).

Salary/Benefits:
Bellevue Pay Range
$88,000—$101,000 USD
(from the job posting page)

Partial list of benefits cribbed from our Careers site:
Competitive salaries and robust incentives (salary posted in the listing)
Medical, dental, and vision plans (the best I've ever seen, personally)
Paid parental leave and back-up child care
Generous 401(k) matching with no vesting
Sometimes, you get to play video games at your desk all day
Very casual environment and team
And way more...

Questions?: PM or email me at madsushi /at/ gmail.com

I'm happy to talk about the roles or the teams, and answer any questions. I am happy to send over a referral link and/or talk directly to the hiring manager if you're interested.

Goons hired: 3, and counting

ilkhan
Oct 7, 2004

I LOVE Musk and his pro-first-amendment ways. X is the future.
Interesting posting, but I've never touched kubernetes and don't live local. You can round trip non-stop same day DEN-SEA for $400 though...

cr0y
Mar 24, 2005



Is this the thread to ask about salary ranges?

I've been at an F100 for nearly a decade, starting on their NOC and being promoted through three teams to the role of a "senior systems analyst". Whatever that means.

Here's my general job description/experience:
-Enterprise for about a decade, smaller time for about another 10 years, again, a generalist)

-server infrastructure from Dell PowerEdge up through OS via VMware VSAN (windows generally but also some linux)
-my current team is IT / OT, we directly support industrial control systems so I have a lot of experience with fault tolerance, disaster recovery, etc (app vendors being GE, Rockwell, etc)
-I consider myself a server administrator by trade but I can speak intelligently about Palo Alto, Cisco, juniper, Meraki, and storage (Mostly EMC for traditional on prem clusters). I don't know how to articulate this but I can generally tell a telecom guy when there's a routing problem or a VLAN misconfiguration.

My current gig is kind of getting lovely, just looking for some expectations as to where the market is. Pennsylvania if that matters, but moving forward I want to be full remote

Lockback
Sep 3, 2006

All days are nights to see till I see thee; and nights bright days when dreams do show me thee.

cr0y posted:

Is this the thread to ask about salary ranges?

I've been at an F100 for nearly a decade, starting on their NOC and being promoted through three teams to the role of a "senior systems analyst". Whatever that means.

Here's my general job description/experience:
-Enterprise for about a decade, smaller time for about another 10 years, again, a generalist)

-server infrastructure from Dell PowerEdge up through OS via VMware VSAN (windows generally but also some linux)
-my current team is IT / OT, we directly support industrial control systems so I have a lot of experience with fault tolerance, disaster recovery, etc (app vendors being GE, Rockwell, etc)
-I consider myself a server administrator by trade but I can speak intelligently about Palo Alto, Cisco, juniper, Meraki, and storage (Mostly EMC for traditional on prem clusters). I don't know how to articulate this but I can generally tell a telecom guy when there's a routing problem or a VLAN misconfiguration.

My current gig is kind of getting lovely, just looking for some expectations as to where the market is. Pennsylvania if that matters, but moving forward I want to be full remote

A thread about salary ranges is a great idea but it'd be hard to control the noise for something like that.

Ultimately, you sorta need to share what kind of job you're looking for, maybe find a decent example online and share that? I'd also say full remote is probably going to "cost" something in terms of salary, a lot of places are realizing that is worth a kind of premium, especially for ICs. To give you an idea, I posted a (admittedly, entry level) full remote job about 8 weeks ago and had 600+ applicants in like 4 days before I took it down.

Super-NintendoUser
Jan 16, 2004

COWABUNGERDER COMPADRES
Soiled Meat
Heyo, if you applied for anything through my ref link and your name starts with N please reach out to me, ericcorp@gmail.com.

Happiness Commando
Feb 1, 2002
$$ joy at gunpoint $$

cr0y posted:

Is this the thread to ask about salary ranges?
I imagine you're making 100-150? IDK how much industrial control people make, but your other bullets fit my range, I think?

kensei
Dec 27, 2007

He has come home, where he belongs. The Ancient Mariner returns to lead his first team to glory, forever and ever. Amen!


If you are in the Portland, OR area and know networking, drop me a line. We're hiring for a mid-level Network Engineer, goon boss (not me but great dude), excellent benefits and some time in the office when needed to lay hands on hardware but mostly remote.

hark
May 10, 2023

I'm sleep

kensei posted:

If you are in the Portland, OR area and know networking, drop me a line. We're hiring for a mid-level Network Engineer, goon boss (not me but great dude), excellent benefits and some time in the office when needed to lay hands on hardware but mostly remote.

drat I gotta move to Portland

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A Frosty Witch
Apr 21, 2005

I was just looking at it and I suddenly got this urge to get inside. No, not just an urge - more than that. It was my destiny to be here; in the box.
I'm trying to move to Portland but I don't think I know enough networking to be hirable

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