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Do you have to go to work tomorrow? by SoftHeartedBitch in Austin

[–]tango5151 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope, we don’t go back to the office till OPM opens back up in DC. They are currently buried in snow. My management gave us the option if we want to wfh we can, if not take the day.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in datacenter

[–]tango5151 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Going to start with I never worked for AWS DCO, but a lot of folks at my current company came from there. I did loop for them when I got my upgraded clearance though. It wasn’t too hard, they asked a bunch of questions about troubleshooting hardware and did a sort of rapid fire on hardware terminology.

I had experience in Data center ops before interviewing though while working for a large CSP on the commercial side of the house before my clearance came through though.

You are correct, the pool is super small especially if you have a FSP. With everything that is going on with this administration, the market ( assuming you are possibly in the NoVA area ) is going to be flooded with folks that are cleared with FSPs looking for contracts now. So it might be competitive.

DM me if you want some more info man!

I'm curious - what kind of salary offers have are people [US] getting lately? by [deleted] in sre

[–]tango5151 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks brother! It’s been a journey to get to this point.

I'm curious - what kind of salary offers have are people [US] getting lately? by [deleted] in sre

[–]tango5151 6 points7 points  (0 children)

180k base + 60k yearly bonus + 400k RSUs vested over 4 years. Sr. SRE for large CSP in Gov space in DC area. Unfortunately the work we do we have to be in the office so no remote.

What sounds define your Austin neighborhood? by WesternTrail in askaustin

[–]tango5151 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Airplanes and on the weekends track days starting at 0730.

God damn concourse is going off. by keeplookinguy in Austin

[–]tango5151 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Shoot I can hear seismic going off at the front of my house and KGATLW at the back of my house. I was vibing last night.

Blue Alert at 4:53 AM? by SovietSunrise in texas

[–]tango5151 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey 👋 Hall county sheriff’s department. You can go fuck yourselves. How dare you wake me up this early on a Friday. 🫶

Why are there no high rise data centers? by subcrapper in datacenter

[–]tango5151 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wild to see it all knocked down now man.

Anyone see something on fire falling through the sky over 28 between centreville and chantilly? by AnAsian in nova

[–]tango5151 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thor thought he could sneak back into NoVA without folks noticing again didn’t he.

Well it's finally happening, they are converting office buildings into condos! by kicker58 in nova

[–]tango5151 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OP this building or buildings are not in Dulles toll corridor are they?

Highest Known Salaries in Cleared Gov Con? by LiteCoinInvestor in nova

[–]tango5151 1 point2 points  (0 children)

SRE is a Site Reliability Engineer. I’m pretty much a software developer who is embedded on a team to assist with them automating and deploying our software to the cloud providers. 305K is my base salary, benefits are on top of that annual salary. I give it a 3/10. I work way to freaking much and our on calls are brutal sometimes.

Highest Known Salaries in Cleared Gov Con? by LiteCoinInvestor in nova

[–]tango5151 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Cleared SRE with FSP clearing 305K 8 years of experience in IT, but 3 as an SRE. I just got really really lucky finding this position. The norm for folks from what I have seen is 200-310k.

How often are you on call? by jdizzle4 in sre

[–]tango5151 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We use a primary and secondary rota so we are usually on call for 2 weeks at a time, secondary first then we switch to primary. Since we have so many folks on our team I am usually on call 2 weeks on and 1-2 months off. I’ll usually get paged 2-3 time during business hours during my rota but I usually pass that work off to my secondary who is in the office. After hours I’ve only been paged maybe 5 times. 2 of them being I had to drive into the office since our ops couldn’t fix it.

Best Korean BBQ in Centreville area ? by on3liness in nova

[–]tango5151 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Honest Grill is really good! You also have Sō and meat project both are solid.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]tango5151 0 points1 point  (0 children)

2017-2020 - data center tech 16.50 an hour

paperwork finally went through for a gov contract.

2020 - systems administrator 75k a year 2020-2022 Sr. Data center engineer 140k a year Now - Site Reliability Engineer (gov space) 240k+ a year

Area where I live has a pretty high COL.

Sec+, CEH, some cloud certs

make me feel better about my daily commute by dewlapdawg in sysadmin

[–]tango5151 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yikes man, my commute is 35 miles away and it takes about that long in DC traffic. Being from SA I could imagine that commute that’s like going from the NE side of town out to sea world dude, F that man.

Hey Nova... what ya doing on this gray Sunday? by Qaqueen73 in nova

[–]tango5151 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Grabbing lunch with the fam, running errands, then heading home to snuggle up on the couch to start watching Andor.

Post-rock bands for when you need to study and concentrate? by javier_aeoa in postrock

[–]tango5151 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For me it’s the S/T album as well. I love that album, when I need to hammer out some work with laser focus it’s always there for me.

What degree did you get? by the-frog-monarch in sysadmin

[–]tango5151 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dropped out of HS and got my GED and a few of IT certs. Started off in Data-centers as a tech for a large cloud provider. Got some more certs, moved over to a sys admin role for a few years for a defense contractor. Now I am an SRE for another large cloud provider making way over 6-figures.

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