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I'm pretty happy in my current position, and I have excellent benefits. If anyone in the Kansas City metro area has an opening I'd be willing to consider moving back home closer to the family. Same for the Baton Rouge/NOLA area for the right package. My experience: 3 years Windows 2003 Server Infrastructure support in a multi site enterprise environment. Specializing in AD, Group Policy, Desktop management, folder permissions and Exchange 2k3. Light Avaya PBX, Cisco, VMWare knowledge. There's tons more, but this isn't a full resume. What I'm looking for: Mid level System Admin position dealing with Windows Infrastructure. What I'm NOT looking for: Website hosting, coding, first line help desk. Where I live: San Antonio, TX Where I'm looking: Kansas City Metro (Topeka, Lawrence as well), Baton Rouge/NOLA metro. When I can start: flexible Requirements: Full Time no contract, Health Insurance, 401K match, at least 2 weeks vacation to start. Positive challenging work environment. Can be reached via: PM skipdogg fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Feb 9, 2009 |
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Grid Commander posted:My situation: I'm thinking it would be interesting to move somewhere new. I've lived in the same area for my entire life. Ever been to Austin? You wouldn't have a problem finding work there. We don't have any openings right now, but you shouldn't have a problem making 6 figures up there.
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Bahama.Llama posted:Another opening in Fort Myers, FL. Relatively laid back place. I am not a manager of any kind in our department and have no say in who gets this job. I also did not create this posting. I'm curious about this posting. Is this Market Rate for someone with these qualifications? I'm not quite at the level experience wanted in this posting, but the Salary seems kind of low. I'm assuming it's lower cash wise because it is a university and the combo of good benefits/retirement/crazy holidays off makes up for it as a total comp package.
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Vlaphor posted:My experience: Ten years of computer repair experience, six years of customer service experience. Good luck man, I've been browsing TPK area for a year and haven't found crap. Check Stormont and St. Francis weekly, they don't post positions anywhere else but their website. You should be able to find something if you want to travel to Overland Park, but that's a drive...
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Anyone in the St. Louis area looking for a Linux position PM me. I just got some random call from a recruiter looking for a Linux Engineer for a direct hire spot with 'comprehensive benefits'.
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MJP posted:Job opening for Desktop/Helpdesk Support in Iselin, NJ. Two minutes off exit 130 on the Parkway, five minutes off exit 10 on the Turnpike. We're five minutes from the Metropark NJ Transit station. This sounds like a great job with a good company, and is very similar to how I got my foot into IT. Anyone thinking about this job should definitely apply. Opportunities like this (good benefits, good schedule, good company) are very rare, and the pay range is excellent for the job
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Maneki Neko posted:I've never run into anyone who was 1099ed as a contract to hire, it's just a matter of who is cutting your paycheck. Generally I know we usually pay our contract to hire professionals less than what they made through the contractor firm because we're paying vacation, benefits, leave, cell phone, etc. Your cash might go down, but overall compensation is higher.
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Jan 29, 2010 18:47
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In my experience software engineers tend to have very limited knowledge of hardware or OS level issues. Some do, but quite a few don't.
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brc64 posted:Any idea if it's worth applying from out of town. I'm just north of Dallas, but I'd be willing to consider relocating for the right job (and I've heard Austin is pretty awesome). Austin is pretty awesome, and you should apply, an interview is only a 50 dollar plane ticket away or a 3 hour drive. I would have applied a while ago but I just bought a drat house here in San Antonio. I'd be a really good fit for the windows sys admin spot.
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Anyone in/around the Austin area? We're rapidly expanding and in need of a mid level jack of all trades type IT person. There's no official job posting available yet. Strong Red Hat experience is a real nice to have.
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Stares At Floor posted:small school stuff Don't be afraid to start a new thread in here when you need help or want to discuss something, there's a vast amount of knowledge here and most anyone would be willing to help out a bit. I'm not sure if you're in a remote area or not, are you part of a larger district? In fact you could make a thread just based on this post alone where we could all recommend solutions. T-1's are expensive and slow, inquire with your local company (probably bell south) about some of their higher speed offerings. We got rid of a pair of bonded T-1's for a 10meg Metro Ethernet pipe and the cost was about the same believe it or not. Managed MPLS might work for you with no network engineer on site as well. We have a company wide DS3 MPLS from Verizon Business and it's expensive, but not as expensive as you would think. If you're in a more rural area there should be Fed Gov't programs to help with connectivity. Sharepoint is very powerful. The question is what do you want Sharepoint to do for you. Wiki, Document Repo, internal website, Sharepoint does it all and more.
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revmoo, Texas in general is pretty drat nice place to relocate to. Nice weather, the economy is doing better than most, housing is relatively stable, and cost of living is reasonable. The Dallas Metroplex, Austin, San Antonio and Houston are all doing very well and there's plenty of jobs.
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dolicf posted:Are you a wiener? If not, I might be able to help out here. Check out the jobs on http://rackertalent.com. If there's something you're interested in (and qualified for, please!), feel free to shoot me an email with the job, your resume and a bit about yourself and I'll see what I can do. Are you in SA? I have a few former coworkers over there. I think it would be a great place to work but I need to ask questions about the environment. Mind if I shoot you an email?
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RedMagus posted:Trying this again, am praying for the year of the job to strike Looking at this post you shouldn't be having any issues at least getting interviews for a job that meets your qualifications. You might have to get in the door as desktop support again, but you shouldn't be having issues finding a job in Houston with that kind of experience.. Unless something's off. How's your resume look? Do you interview well? If you're not sure about either of those things get your resume looked at and have a friend do some practice interviews with you.
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RedMagus posted:Mostly I'm just not finding the openings that match my experience, though I've only been going through the chronicle's job site at the moment. My current job is ok and my bills are paid, and I could last here till retirement, but the thought of being a desk jockey is kind of depressing, and I'll be stuck at my current pay grade/job with no hope of advancement till someone either retires or dies. indeed.com, dice.com and simplyhired.com are your friends for tech jobs.
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Wicaeed posted:Question to all you hiring managers: I'm starting to notice a lack of a BS holding me back. I've also got 5 years in as a Windows Admin and applied a few months ago for jobs with very large corporations that I was completely qualified for except for the lack of a 4 year degree. I never heard anything back from them. This is the first time in my life my resume has failed to at least get a screening phone call from someone, much less a 1st round interview. I would say this.. A lack of a 4 year degree can hurt you by not getting you past the HR or recruiter filter and getting your resume seen by someone who actually knows what they're looking at. If you have an in at the company who can get your resume seen by a hiring manager, thats one way around it, but really lack of a 4 year degree can hurt. I suggest doing whatever it takes to get one.
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bort posted:but the recruiters are often competing with one another over the same postings Oh god, a local company opened a position, and the next day my Dice Job Alert has 9 new posting with the exact same job description from 9 different recruiter and contract companies.  brc64 posted:I think you're the first person I've ever seen have a positive thing to say about recruiters. Most people seem to think they're slime. Is there a particular group you recommend? Recruiters are slime, mostly because they get paid a commission based on the salary of the person they hire. The crappy ones I know care about nothing but shoving a candidate into a company at the highest rate possible and getting their check. Our internal recruiters are OK, because they're company employees, but some of the external ones we deal with are worse than used car salesmen.
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duz posted:Reposting since Rackspace finally said no. Hoping there's goons at other places. You looking for PHP/Javascript programming? Any other languages? How familiar are you with RedHat based systems? (RHEL/CentOS). We might have some opportunities in Austin.. We just have a call center here in San Antonio, we could really use a good PHP guy on our internal team, but I don't think there's any openings. fakedit: There's a lot more San Antonio goons than I thought...
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Most folks get their initial experience via internships while in college.
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I'm not a software engineer, but an IT guy that supports lots of them. It's like IT, it's all dependent on where you are and what you specialize in. Software Engineering is a reasonably broad term just like "IT" is. Different languages to specialize in, etc etc. We're a Java shop, and take extremely good care of our guys. We're picky about who we hire, but they get great equipment and a great working environment. I think my company offers a great balance of "big enough to have great benefits and pay well but not be too big". Keeping talent is hard, especially when you're a company without a big brand name recognition. I will say the programmers I support are doing very well. I don't think any of them make less than 6 figures a year, but we tend to hire folks with 4 to 8 years of proven experience and some of them have Masters in Comp Sci. I will say though there's nothing fun about the job unless you just love writing code. They view their job as a job, it's definitely not a start up mentality where you give 200% to the company. These guys do their job, and then go home to their kids, wives, partners, or whatever. If your getting into software engineering I would suggest the following 1: Internships. It's how you tackle the experience issue getting your first job 2: Network. Half the people in our Software office have worked with each other at a previous job and were recommended when we had a position. 3: Make sure you're doing it for the right reasons. There's a lot of money to be made, but if your chasing the  you're going to hate yourself in a few years.
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brc64 posted:Contract rate of pay is $38/hr. I assume if I am "converted", I would end up negotiating a salary or rate with the company directly, and it will not be nearly as high as the contract rate. Is there any rule of thumb on what I could potentially expect to get out of that? I'm trying to evaluate potential long term options, and since this is a fairly short term contract, it makes me a little uneasy. I've seen it go both ways. Some companies pay a very high contract rate and you take a hit when you convert, and some pay a lower contract rate and you get a raise if you convert I'm not sure what the job is, but 38/hr is 79K a year. Is the position a 79K a year position? If it's not expect a pay cut. I would say in my company most contractors take a pay cut to join us from contract status, but we have very affordable and awesome PPO insurance, start folks at 3 weeks vacation and 8 sick days, 401K match with no vesting period, and all sorts of other benefits that usually end up making it worth it.
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Kumquat posted:Thanks for the advice. I guess Pensacola is just where dreams come to die. Right now I'm kind of tied down right here due to school concerns. We'll see about next year, I guess. Have you hit up the staffing companies? Kelly and the like always need folks, and right now even a short contract job is better than zero job. In IT you need to go where the work is. My entire family lives in Topeka, but the closest area that has even a reasonable IT job market is Kansas City and even that is hit and miss. No shortage of work here in Texas though. San Antonio, Dallas and Houston all have tons of options.
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Tatsujin posted:I agree. I'd rather live in Austin/SA than DFW or Houston though. I dunno, SA isn't bad but has lots of drawbacks. It's a big city without lots of the big city amenities. I hate the lack of direct flights to anywhere Casull posted:Why can't it be Silicon Valley again? I just want a place to cut my teeth in for desktop support We're in the process of moving a huge chunk of our engineering efforts away from Silicon Valley and to Austin instead. Pay is around 20% cheaper and there isn't as much competition. Big name companies like NetApp and Cisco poaching your best engineers all the time makes life difficult.
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From reading reviews on Glassdoor is seems RS is a great place to get your foot in the door and move up, but not so great for experienced folks looking to move into more senior positions. Quite a few GD reviews mention below market rate, inflexible hiring terms, issues with management, etc.
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Comradephate posted:- Contract pay only, except there's no contract. Pay is every two weeks, taxes aren't withheld - you'll be 1099'd. No benefits, PTO, or anything normal human beings receive for working. I would strongly encourage you to talk to your bosses/owners about this. This is pretty much against the law. You can't hire 1099 contractors and treat them like W-2 employees.
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Trans-Angeles posted:Skills: Please tell me this isn't on your resume....
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vty posted:The usual hot spots - SFBA, Denver, Seattle, Houston.. All those big cities. I'm in Austin, which thinks its a big city, but really apart from Dell/HP mid-senior level positions seem to be lacking, along with the pay ranges. Something I've noticed since I've started working in Austin and becoming friends with guys in tech sector here is hardly any of the jobs in many of these companies ever get posted. My job was never publicly posted, and I would say 80% of our positions are hired from a word of mouth referral and never get posted. If we have a software developer spot open up, someone usually knows a good candidate that is looking to move companies. Our last network engineer was filled by word of mouth as well. Job posting never even got put up. I know our pay is in line with market as well, and we have great benefits as people tend to stay for a while here. Just a bit of advice to everyone reading this thread. Network Network Network. If you're looking for a job, don't be afraid to send a brief email to former teachers, bosses, colleagues, etc asking if someone knows anyone looking for your skill set.
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Mons Hubris posted:Hey computer folks, especially Texas-based or willing-to-relocate computer folks! Hows the pay? I know a few people in Austin that could be interested, but they're all very well compensated. Does it still have that startup feel to the company? Is it crazy hours?
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I like turtles posted:I'm going through a recruiter right now that may have hooked me up with a python developer job - they're looking for Ruby developers too. Full relocation to San Antonio, etc. If you're a decent Ruby developer, and interested in TX at all, PM me and I'll hook you up with my guy, he seems to know his poo poo. Especially in that I had applied for these jobs cold before and never gotten a response, but got a phone interview the week he first contacted me. RackSpace?
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dolicf posted:I hear you. Any clue on the range for Windows II/III guys? I have it made in the shade at my current job, but I've always been curious how RS pays.
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We use contract guys for both scenarios discussed. We've had issues finding quality hires, so we'll have a recruiter bring them in on a 3 or 6 month contract, and if they perform we convert them to FTE status. If they suck we can easily get rid of them. We also have a bunch of QA work that we only need folks for 3 or 6 months on, so we'll use contractors to do that work as well. Just depends.
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Ouch. Sorry bud. If you're sticking around the old TPK for a while, I can see if my brother knows anyone hiring. He used to work at Hills doing L2 Desktop.
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Systems Engineer/Systems Administrator are used pretty interchangeably. I'm not a fan of the Engineer title unless one actually holds an engineering degree. GlassDoor is a great resource if the company is large enough to have enough data put into it.
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The counteroffer for money card is dangerous because your current employer realizes you're willing to leave for more money, and even after the counteroffer you're probably going to take off the next time someone offers you 5K more a year.... so they'll try to replace you on their schedule instead of being left hanging when you leave. If you're unhappy with your current compensation level but like your job I think you're better off making an argument to your manager that you're worth more. Make a case for it and if they don't go for it, then you know it's time to move on.
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My company is looking for Senior Software Engineers and Senior QA Engineers in the Austin, TX area. I'm just an IT guy who works here, but it's a pretty cool place to work. Good location, well funded established company, but the local office still has a bit of a start up feel to it. (Translation: Market pay, good equipment and software, good benefit package, but there's still a ping pong and Foosball table and a fridge full of sodas). Dress code is relaxed. I really don't want to associate my company with my screen name here, but in general we're looking for people with 4 to 7+ years of programming experience. We have quite a few openings and a few different functional teams here working on different projects/products. One product is a Java server based piece of software, others are C/C++ on embedded devices. I know our greatest need is on the C/C++ side on our embedded products. The QA positions want a BS, at least 3 years in QA, strong test automation skills, coding experience in Python, TCL and strong Linux skills. PM or post contact info in this thread and I can send you more information. If anyone's figured out who I work for, please keep it to yourself. I'm hesitant to even post this but if I can help a Goon get a good job, it'll be worth it. To the best of my knowledge relocation is possible for the right candidate.
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BeefofAges posted:skipdogg, for the QA positions, is there any contract work available? See my post a bit above yours. Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. We do use contract QA work but we source it through an outside firm. We don't really deal directly with contractors on a 1099 basis that often.
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I don't have an official job posting yet, but we're going to be needing a Senior System Administrator in the San Jose, CA area shortly. Experienced Sr. Admin with VMWare and EMC Storage experience. If anyone might be interested let me know.
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We have a new position open in the UK. Who We Are: Pace Plc, a global market leader in the Pay TV Set Top Box market. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer for our engineering tools group located in our Saltaire, UK office. Some details are listed here: http://www.pace.com/global/careers/vacancy-locations-index/saltaire/senior-software-engineer-vacuk511/ Basically the position manages all our linuxy infrastructure bits for the engineering folks that write software. The title says Senior Software Engineer, but to the best of my knowledge outside of some scripting you won't be creating code. You'll be managing Linux Systems like SVN, CVS, our Wiki and anything else running *nix. Linux Shell and Perl are very important. Knowledge of VMWare and IBM Servers and SAN's would go a long way as well. We also have a ton of job openinings in other sites, mostly for software engineers and QA folks Here is a link to our job openings in the Americas. http://www.pace.com/americas/careers/vacancies/ We still need a strong System Admin for our San Jose location, strong VMWare and Microsoft Infrastructure knowledge is desired. The job posting is a little out of date, but feel free to ask questions.
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ConfusedUs posted:If you meet most of the requirements, you should apply. In my experience, most job postings are looking for a holy grail but would be more than happy with someone who is competent and reliable. This can't be stressed enough in general for all you job seekers. Job Postings are basically Manager wish lists. No candidate is going to hit all the wish list items. If you think you can get up to speed in 90 days at the job, then apply apply apply! The last guy we hired didn't have 2 of our 'wish list' items, but was really strong with other things and showed in the interview he was a sharp guy who would have no issue getting up to speed. We hired him and it's worked out really well so far.
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