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The free and open CA Let's Encrypt is hiring another sysadmin
- cagenut 9y agomy god a sysadmin job post I can't remember the last time I saw one of these
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- tyingq 9y agoIt's just been renamed. You can see the job description has all the tick boxes for "devops".
- CaliforniaKarl 9y agoThe first line on the page peaked my interest: > All of our positions are remote and we can only hire in the United States and Canada. I assume there is a fair amount of security involved in the day-to-day sysadmin work of a CA. I wonder what kind of work environment their sysadmins have, in terms of secure computing, VPN (or something BeyondCorp-like), etc..
- rhizome 9y ago*piqued
- tptacek 9y agoThis is a cool job, but the rules of the site say job posts go on the monthly hiring thread. There are lots of cool public-interest jobs opening every month, and if we had them all on the front page, the site would be little more than job ads. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html Please do not post job ads as story submissions to HN.
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- toomuchtodo 9y agoPublic good infrastructure orgs should get a pass IMHO.
- JBerlinsky 9y agoI generally love Let's Encrypt and what they stand for, but the subjective measure of "public good" is a dangerously slippery slope.
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- blakes 9y agoLet's Encrypt is a part of the Internet Security Research Group and is literally a Public-Benefit Organization in California. Still a subjective measure in some way I suppose, but they are not for profit and I think it would be hard to argue that the organization is not a benefit to the public.
- JBerlinsky 9y agoThere are plenty of organizations that are incorporated as Public-Benefit Organizations that might still be considered objectionable to get a free pass on hiring posts.
- yeukhon 9y agoThere are non-profit startups that really do geniune work. Do we let them pass? So many like DDG should we let them pass? What about Tor they do hire people to manage the project. Should we let that pass? What about research on cancer? Not saying LE is not important to get a little notice (it’s probably hard for anyone to notice their career page or whatnot to be honest), but we should be fair.
- cheeze 9y agoIt's mind blowing to me how much LE gets done with such a tiny team. Hats off to them, they've done a ton of good for the PKI world.
- yeukhon 9y agoI actually thought Mozilla was behind running the infrastructure the whole time. Or perhaps I would think sponsors likr Mozilla and Facebook would have dedicate someone full time to help running the environment.
- apple4ever 9y agoAnd yet they can’t do something as simple as year long certs
- yeukhon 9y agoBecause they didn't want to.