Lemmy World SysOp

Lemmy.World is looking for 4 new Systems operators to help with our growing community.

Volunteers will assist our existing systems team with monitoring and maintenance.

We’re ideally looking for chill folks that want to give back to their community and work on our back-end infrastructure. Must have 4+ years of professional experience working in systems administration. We are not looking for junior admins at this time. Please keep in mind that, while this is a volunteer gig, we would ask you to be able to help at least 5-10 hours a week. We also understand this is a hobby and that family and work comes first.

Applicants must be okay with providing their CV and/or LinkedIn profile AND sitting for a video interview. This is due to the sensitivity of the infrastructure you will have access to.

We are an international team that works from both North America EST time (-4) and Europe CEST (+2) so we would ask that candidates be flexible with their availability.

If you are in AEST (+10) or JST (+9) please let us know, as we are looking for at least one Sysadmin to help out during our overnight.

You may be asked to participate in an on-call pool. Please keep in mind that this is a round-robin style pool, so it's alright if you're busy as it will just move along the chain.

If you're interested and want to apply, click here.

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I have the experience, but not the energy nor passion as I am almost burned out already. I hope you find some awesome people.

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In my opinion Lemmy.world should start selling a bit of merchandising (t-shirt and so on), just to add a little on the donation side.

BTW. the donation links are in the group info.

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I read it as Lemmy World PsyOp at first and thought there’s some conspiracy bullshit happening on the instance. lol. Good luck on your search!

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A CTO of 5 years with many more years of experience here. I would be really glad to help, but not in scenario where I have to prepare a CV for international readers and have no pay at all as this looks to me like a job application with no job.

Considering you are running on Digitalocean infrastructure, I am completely unsure why you would ever need Ansible and Terraform as it just adds complexity without certain benefit, especially if you mention Kubernetes which DO already provides with two clicks.

I'd personally suggest trying out ArgoCD for declarative clusters. With this thing, I've seen 2 companies maintained by a single DevOps engineer with no problems. Huge timesaver and makes everything transparent.

In case this process changes and becomes less corporate-y and more transparent, I'll be ready to apply. Hope you're going to find the right people! Long live Lemmy World!

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Senior Network engineer with lots of experience in the field (servers + network), 15+ years if you need help let me know I'm happy to lend a hand.

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I'm qualified, but 5-10 hours can mean a lot of different things.

Are you looking just for oncall/incident response, or are there more active reliability projects that you need help on?

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4 applicants x 5-10 hours is .5 to 1 full time employees. Very generously speaking the ask here is for 100k/yr in free labor. The stringent interview process is going to be very limiting on potential candidates.

The experience isn't going to be a learning experience since you're looking for people that already know it all and I wouldn't even put it on a resume, it just advertises to employers you're ok being lowballed.

Perhaps this is a necessity for an instance of this size, but to me that seems to indicate that lemmy.world has reached the upper end of reasonable scalability, which given the workings of the fediverse would be fine.

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Out of curiosity, will you be able to weed out bad faith volunteers? I am sure there are a variety of interests that would be more than willing to pay a junior admin to be a Lemmy Sysop and it’s not like the candidate will volunteer that information.

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I threw my hat in the ring. Hope you all get some good people!

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How about another approach?

There is no good reason for Lemmyworld to keep on growing to an extent that this kind of overhead is necessary. The idea of Lemmy is decentralization and not creating a new reddit instance. Close your registration, limit your amount of communities and let Lemmy grow in other directions.

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Definitely misread this as Lemmy World PsyOp

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You may be asked to participate in an on-call pool

Unfortunately, this is where I noped out. But I ditch most paid positions where I can't avoid standby-time.

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Threw my hat in the ring, I'm a senior devops engineer.

Don't have any Lemmy experience though. I have no desire to self host it, but I wouldn't mind being part of the team to maintain a large instance.

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Get rid of TLS 1.0 and 1.1 - good luck 👍

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I spent 4-5 years running a high traffic server using Linux, nginx, apache, php and whatever we did with Python, and would be glad to help. This was in 2010 though, so….

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Very cool! Would be nice to have folks from different timezones to help with outages that currently occur mostly when everyone in the team is sleeping. Good luck!

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Lol. I read the header as "Lemmy World PsyOp" and was like "well, that's disappointing," lol.

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Sysop... reminds of the good ol' BBS days. What a great time that was.

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This is really tempting actually. Do you by chance need someone with skills in various storage technologies?

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Look forward to talking to you!

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I'm curious what the backend looks like based on your requirements here... Ansible is always a red flag for me that your servers are pets not cattle. Just maintain a golden image, especially since you mention kubernetes. And if you're using self managed kubernetes USE REMOTE ETCD. Trust me, it will save you so much time and drama.

I wouldn't be interested unless it's paid so I am just throwing that out there for y'all to consider.

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I'm like a junior in experience but would love to help and especially learn how to help. I also have a lot of free time

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I'm not a a professional in the area of question, but if you need moderators for the instance I would love to help in any capacity that I can.

I've been a moderator on a large forum, one of the biggest in my country, and would love to help whatever way I can. But sysop is not something I've got experience unfortunately.

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Do you get paid in Recognition Bucks?

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If you need a janitor I can help but back end stuff is over my head.

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I'm a noobie sysadmin so I don't have enough experience yet. Hope you guys find some people to help out!

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I'd love to help out one day but right now my experience is just hosting random things for fun that I find on github

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No offense but you're asking for some crazy free labor. This would only make sense for college students or new grads trying to get experience. Why would I add another on-call shift to my existing career?

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I totally hope you'll get enough admins to help out. Alas, I'm way to short on time to commit to this now. After 28y sysadmin and developing on Unix and Linux, I could use some project that is useful, but alas, no time to spare now. (Maybe later)

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wow nice, hope you get some qualified folks! regrettably I dont have time or I'd toss my hat in the ring

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No offense but you're asking for some crazy free labor. This would only make sense for college students or new grads trying to get experience. Why would I add another on-call shift to my existing career?

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On anti work this would be a request for 1/4th FTE with no benefits. I'm sure you'll get there best of the best.

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Would love to implement Grafana+Telegraf+VictoriaMetrics stack for hosts monitoring & alerting. And put everything to Ansible.

Uploading CV and resume? Too lazy for that. 🤷

You may be asked to participate in an on-call pool. Please keep in mind that this is a round-robin style pool, so it's alright if you're busy as it will just move along the chain.

I don't have a motyvation to have yet another daily stand up. 🤷

Guess I will not apply for the role.

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Christ this is a stupid fucking battle. YOU 👏 CANNOT 👏 REPLICATE 👏 AN OPS 👏 TEAM 👏 FOR 👏 FREE. You dumb twats. I fucking would love to see this place succeed but none of you want to grasp reality and the costs of making a service highly available and the privacy costs.

Start a fucking non profit, publish your costs, require subscriptions from heavy users, hire a team of devs and ops and publish your fucking sheets at the end of the year to show you aren't hoarding it. e.g. Mozilla.

Grow the fuck up. If you want to power a tech revolution do the fucking work. ./ End rant

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