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Cloud / Devops work pays extremely well in the US and not very many people seem to enjoy it.

chudi 5y ago
do you know any place that is searching for remote people? Where I live everyone is wanting to hire but there isn't any more money around here and everyone is just jaded or working remote.
- f0e4c2f7 5y ago
  I would say remote work seems generally pretty common. Even if they don't offer it outright you may find that to be more negotiable than you would expect. Hiring for cloud / Devops is very painful right now. Often representing months of effort and 10s of 1000s in fees to recruiters per candidate. Good places to look include career pages for tech companies and startups, hn who's hiring posts, angel.co, and LinkedIn (yes I know this one is unpleasant. For what it's worth is also where I have had the best results over the years)
tkiolp4 5y ago
I would say devops is the most stressful role in the tech industry out there. If something goes down on a Sunday morning, you have to fix it; and sometimes the fix is not an as easy as restarting a server.
- theflyinghorse 5y ago
  > and sometimes the fix is not an as easy as restarting a server. Yes, but more often than not you just restart a couple of nodes, maybe kill and re up a couple containers and that's about it. The question is do the cases where you really have to dig in outweigh those where restarts just work?
  - oumua_don17 5y ago
    Asking genuinely ‘why are the restarts then not automated’? Or is it that one gets paged after the automated restarts also have failed? Edit: fix typo
  - tkiolp4 5y ago
    The problem is not how often disasters happen, the problem (for me) is that they will happen and you will have to fix it. Every minute the servers are down is money the company is losing. Just the mere possibility of that ruins everything. That’s why I, as a software engineer, don’t do on calls either. Money doesn’t fix my stress.
giantg2 5y ago
I am in a DevOps role and do not like it. It's mostly config, troubleshooting, and PRD support. It would be nice to do some actually coding.

do you know any place that is searching for remote people? Where I live everyone is wanting to hire but there isn't any more money around here and everyone is just jaded or working remote.

f0e4c2f7 5y ago
I would say remote work seems generally pretty common. Even if they don't offer it outright you may find that to be more negotiable than you would expect. Hiring for cloud / Devops is very painful right now. Often representing months of effort and 10s of 1000s in fees to recruiters per candidate. Good places to look include career pages for tech companies and startups, hn who's hiring posts, angel.co, and LinkedIn (yes I know this one is unpleasant. For what it's worth is also where I have had the best results over the years)

tkiolp4 5y ago

I would say devops is the most stressful role in the tech industry out there. If something goes down on a Sunday morning, you have to fix it; and sometimes the fix is not an as easy as restarting a server.

theflyinghorse 5y ago
> and sometimes the fix is not an as easy as restarting a server. Yes, but more often than not you just restart a couple of nodes, maybe kill and re up a couple containers and that's about it. The question is do the cases where you really have to dig in outweigh those where restarts just work?
- oumua_don17 5y ago
  Asking genuinely ‘why are the restarts then not automated’? Or is it that one gets paged after the automated restarts also have failed? Edit: fix typo
- tkiolp4 5y ago
  The problem is not how often disasters happen, the problem (for me) is that they will happen and you will have to fix it. Every minute the servers are down is money the company is losing. Just the mere possibility of that ruins everything. That’s why I, as a software engineer, don’t do on calls either. Money doesn’t fix my stress.

giantg2 5y ago

I am in a DevOps role and do not like it. It's mostly config, troubleshooting, and PRD support. It would be nice to do some actually coding.