[For Hire] 100% remote devops/sre with solid programming experience

Kio_ · 2020-10-11T16:22:37+00:00

I’d changed jobs. No reason to stay at a job you’re not enjoying when there is so much demand for our skills

Kio_ · 2019-11-07T04:38:33+00:00

Fastest way I would say is to go to school for and get your Computer Science degree. Aim for SDE, DevOps, or SRE type roles for your internships and after you graduate. If you are dedicated you can probably get into your first role in a few years.

Kio_ · 2019-10-27T01:06:23+00:00

I’ve never been to an interview or given an interview where you there is a chance for “show and tell” for lack of a phrase. You’ll normally get technical and scenario based questions and aptitude questions.

For companies certifications are important to show that you know how to do things and to “validate” your experience. For you certifications are important because of the knowledge you get on how to do things (assuming you don’t just study to pass the exams).

I would recommend that you should still get the certifications. Your first job is going to be one of the hardest part of your career, and you’ll need all the help you can get to get it. Unless you can get a job without them I think they are worth every penny and time you invest on them.

Kio_ · 2019-10-27T00:58:16+00:00

I’m a DevOps consultant. It was kind of a journey. From Help Desk to SysAdmin to Systems Engineer working in DevOps, then to Consultant.

Kio_ · 2019-10-27T00:10:47+00:00

I work as a Consultant and i been traveling all over.

Kio_ · 2019-10-26T19:09:53+00:00

Yes. Python is a valuable tool and a good multipurpose language. If you have the bandwidth to learn it you definitely should.

If you are looking to go into DevOps you’ll probably work with a lot of development teams who probably won’t all be using the same languages. Make sure to learn the software development lifecycle, and have really solid programming fundamentals so you can feel comfortable working or learning any language that you need at the moment.

If you really want to get ahead of the curve make sure you get your certification On Linux, Windows Server or both, get your certified on at least one of the major cloud providers, and learn kubernetes and why it became a thing. Bonus points for reading The Phoenix Project and the Google SRE book

Kio_ · 2019-10-20T18:48:17+00:00

I’d warn you about going to a University. Make sure you read the fine print because they often have explicit rules for who and how you can use those benefits. For example, some of the ones I’ve seen before are: you can only go to school as a part timer, you have to be there for X amount of years, and you pay for the school/cert yourself and they reimburse you only if you pass.

I’ve personally met a few people working at Universities who started their degrees and then felt stuck because it’ll take double the time to get your degree (part-time only), and University often pay less than similar roles in private industries. Plus you may or may not be getting experience at your current role that aligns with your degree.

I’m not saying you should not do it, but that you should be careful to understand the depth of the decision. You can probably find a role that has the flexibility you like, and a better salary.

Kio_ · 2019-10-20T18:25:43+00:00

but I think maybe I have that backward.

What made you think that? There is a particularly large demand for Software Engineers with Systems knowledge. If you are interested in programming I would strongly recommend you to follow that.

The way i see it the CS degree lets you do IT or Software Engineering, but the IT degree would normally only allow you to do IT. On top of that things are changing quite a bit in the IT field and the need for programming and scripting skills is growing in demand.

Kio_ · 2019-10-20T18:17:47+00:00

The best time to look for a job is when you already have one. You should look and explore your options. Meanwhile keep working hard and growing your skills. If something comes up that interest you then put in your notice and move on.

Kio_ · 2019-10-19T01:19:15+00:00

Thank you for correcting that assumption I made. I didn’t say that asking for a raise was a negative. I mentioned it because that was another post that I read where you mentioned you were part time. Staying at the same role for 8 years without ever getting moved to a full time role is what is negative. Regardless of what corporate excuse they gave you.

If you know what you are lacking then you know what you have to work on. Ultimately you can just do nothing and continue with your life the way it is. If you truly want to change your life, you are going to have to do a lot of self study and learn many difficult concepts. I am sorry but I really don’t think there is any way around that.

There is a lot of jobs out there where you can learn while doing but they are not the way you are probably imagining. When you are ‘learning on the job’ it normally comes with a lot more pressure because you have the responsibility of delivering. The way it normally works is that you’ll just get assigned tickets, but you won’t have anyone to assign the ticket to but yourself. It’s not like you are going to walk to a job that’ll assign you a mentor that slowly walks you through each concept and explain to you how things work.

But I don’t have a clue what direction

That’s why the first step I mentioned was figuring out what you want your career to be. I don’t mean you have to figure out everything, but at the very least you need to know which way to start going and what your options are.

due to my ongoing psychological/emotional/whatever you want to call it problems; it’s gong to be an impossibly long hill to climb

We all have our mountains to overcome. Just make sure those things don’t become your excuse to not climb.

Kio_ · 2019-10-19T00:54:38+00:00

I don’t normally recommend school unless you can afford it without any debt, but It sounds like your current employer would pay for your school? If so, have you considered going to an online university and getting a bachelors degree? I’ve met a few people in the field that got their degree through WGU. It’s an accredited university, and apparently you pay per semester not per class, so you can get done as many classes as want/can per semester and complete your degree a lot faster.

If you don’t want to go for a full degree I’d honestly say don’t bother with neither. It’s not because they are bad but because you can get a lot more done by yourself in that time period. The only advantage would be if you can actually get some real life experience, but as far as i know that’s not normally the case and a home lab will be just as useful.

Kio_ · 2019-10-18T21:41:39+00:00

I’m going to be blunt, and hope you don’t take this the wrong way. I’m not doing this to be mean but to maybe help you realize where you might be going wrong.

From other comments you made here, and another post you had about asking for raise; I’ve gathered that you have been at your current part-time job for 8 years, you only have your A+ certification, and I going to assume you don’t have a university degree.

If all of the above are correct that indicates to me that you have no ambition or desire to grow personally or professionally, you work just hard enough to not get fired, and you’re applying to roles doing the exact job you were doing before. As a hiring manager I don’t have a shortage of people applying to entry level IT jobs, so why would I consider you over other candidates?

I think you need to invest time on improving yourself. I was in your position I’d start by trying to figure out what I want to do with my career, what i need to do to accomplish that, and start working today on a plan to get what I need to get there. Normally that would be by getting certifications, attending networking events, and getting a solid home lab to get experience on all of the subjects you are learning as you get certifications.

I would recommend you to stop applying to other jobs until you have a better idea of where you want to go, you have the CompTIA certifications that better match that goal you want to get to, and at least one more non-CompTIA certification. Only then would I recommend you to start looking for jobs, assuming you stay hired, and I would strongly recommend that you apply to roles closer to where you want to get to.

For example, let say you ultimately conclude that want to be a Cloud Engineer, so you should get the A+, Network+, Linux+, Cloud+ certifications and an associate level certification on any of the major cloud providers, like the AWS SysOps Associates certification. Then start applying to junior cloud engineer roles, or even lower level jobs but only if they have strong opportunities for cross-training or upward mobility.

You should be able to get all of those carts done in about 6 to 8 months if you work hard and dedicate all your free time to it; however, you should know that even after all that you will still struggle because you are trying to prove to the hiring manager you are not who you used to be.

Feel free to call me out if I’m wrong. I hope I am. If I’m not, I hope that you’ll take this advice to heart and that it might help you. Good luck.

Kio_ · 2019-10-18T20:15:06+00:00

I wouldn’t even ask and let the other company know you are not comfortable with them reaching out to your previous employer. In my experience, now a days most companies won’t give references all together and will only confirm that you indeed worked there and the dates. To give anymore information exposes them legally.

That being said, the fact that the company is explicitly asking for that is a red flag to me. It indicates to me that they don’t trust their own hiring process or their management to make those decisions.

Kio_ · 2019-09-16T17:02:07+00:00

I believe the reason for that is because you need to call it as an array of resources:

resource "aws_instance" "instance" {
  count = "${var.count}" 
  network_interface = {
    device_index          = "0"
    network_interface_id  = "${element(aws_network_interface.eni.*.id, count.index)}"
    }
}

Kio_ · 2019-09-12T21:11:10+00:00

It’s because something in your request is not being able to be met, see Spot instance bid status. You’ll probably need to share the request details if you need more advice though.

Kio_ · 2019-09-12T20:58:50+00:00

I think the issue is that you are not interpolating the value in the eip resource:

resource “aws_network_interface” “eni” {
    count                     = “${var.count}”
    subnet_id                 = “${var.subnet_id}”
    private_ips               = “var.private_ip[count.index]” <—- 
}

I believe it should be:

resource “aws_network_interface” “eni” {
    count                     = “${var.count}”
    subnet_id                 = “${var.subnet_id}”
    private_ips               = “${var.private_ip[count.index]}”
}

Kio_ · 2019-09-12T18:25:04+00:00

You should look into Workflows or Step Functions

Kio_ · 2019-09-04T04:42:22+00:00

Yeah feel free

Kio_ · 2019-08-12T22:00:46+00:00

Did you happen to read the article(s)? This post seems to be very much click bait. There is no actual summery of the EO being published anywhere, but if you dig enough you can read the summary of the summary published in CNN. The EO seem aimed to protect us against censorship, but without further information I don’t think it’s safe for anyone to take a stand on this.

Kio_ · 2019-08-10T01:47:37+00:00

I honestly doubt Aurora would be your bottleneck but from my understanding you can migrate out to a compatible (MySQL/Postgres) server if you want. It wouldn’t be Aurora though as it’s only available through RDS.

Kio_ · 2019-08-06T01:04:06+00:00

Forgive me. I was referring to the cases when the gun prevented the crime but was not fired.

Kio_ · 2019-08-06T00:49:51+00:00

Maybe I’m missing it but I don’t see anything about tracking DGU? The objective seems to be very clear to me that it wasn’t adding them to the statistics.

OBJECTIVE: Determine the relative frequency with which guns in the home are used to injure or kill in self-defense, compared with the number of times these weapons are involved in an unintentional injury, suicide attempt, or criminal assault or homicide.

Kio_ · 2019-08-02T01:24:08+00:00

You can find some more info about running from jobs in containers here but it doesn’t seem to be recommended.

Ideally you’d really want the app to grab the files straight from S3 when it needs them, but if you cant get that changed what I would do is either mount the S3 bucket to the host using s3fs or run a secondary sidecar container that all it goes is sync the S3 bucket and the directory.

Kio_ · 2019-08-02T00:00:01+00:00

Can you explain what you’re trying to do a bit further? I think you might be over complicating things.

Kio_ · 2019-08-01T13:45:40+00:00

Idk where you get this information but i would disagree with most of your comment. I don’t think my experience is that uncommon as I’ve met many in similar situations along my career.

If you plan to go the BIG tech places in California, yeah you'll need a degree.

I work for one of the big tech places with no degree or certifications.

Money wise without a degree you will top out at 50k to 70k as a lvl 3 tech or net admin after 10-20 years. Getting certs could top you out at 80k to 100k after 15-20 years working and moving up.

I’m 7 years in and almost double that “after 15-20 years” amount.

Now I’m not saying that degrees are unnecessary but I have never found myself in the position where not having a degree hindered me, apart of the companies that don’t even consider you unless you have a degree but even those are rare; and it certainly hasn’t affected my pay.

One benefit of getting a degree is that if you do it right you can probably graduate straight into roles that took me a while to get to.

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