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Reposting, because I'm still unemployed.  My experience: Bachelors Degree in Information Technology, followed by three years of experience in datacenter monitoring, as well as enterprise/mainframe scheduling software (Chronos, $Universe, etc). Was made head of this group after a year or so, and managed 12-15 associates until the department was offshored for financial reasons. Two years of experience in software analysis/configuration in accordance with client requirements, plus ensuring compliance with appropriate healthcare laws such as HIPAA, COBRA, and the Affordable Care Act. Worked on software and client requirements for clients such as the NFL, Tesla Motors, Darden Restaurants, and other fortune 500 companies. What I'm looking for: Flexible. Trying to stay off the help desk, as I don't really have any background in end-user support. Apparently "I'd google it" isn't the right answer to "How would you solve X problem?" Where I'm looking: Flexible. Leaning Pac NW. Where I live: Orlando, FL. Will relocate. When I can start: ASAP following relocation. What are my requirements: Negotiable. Can be reached via: E-mail. mattmartin.it@gmail.com
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Who are we? Blizzard Entertainment. You know, the guys who made that World of Warcraft game, among other games. Where are we? Mostly in Irvine, California, but also some in Austin, Texas and San Francisco. What are we looking for? Java engineers, .NET engineers, game developers (C++), IT people, all sorts of things. How do I apply? Send me a PM and we'll go from there. You can apply through these links or if there's other positions that sound like a potential fit, let me know and I can refer you internally. Security Analyst Systems and Storage IT Manager Systems Administrator (Taiwan) .NET software engineer positions Java software engineer Technical Writer for customer service Floor Pie fucked around with this message at 16:53 on Jul 14, 2014 |
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Jul 12, 2014 18:07
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At least one of those links appear to go to listings for positions in Taiwan, not sure if that's intentional or not.
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Whoops, missed that, thanks!
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Floor Pie posted:Who are we? Wasn't there a poster here that was an IT manager for a game company in Austin? I found this amusing quote:Cover Letter which should include: I half tempted to apply and answer 'Wii Bowling'
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quote:Cover Letter which should include: I wonder if that's a useful way to eliminate people who don't read through the job posting. No brown M&Ms.
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skipdogg posted:Wasn't there a poster here that was an IT manager for a game company in Austin? Mighty Quest for Epic Loot Path of Exile Infinity Wars
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I guess it's video game company hiring season or something? Check out the myriad of job postings here: http://pwe-inc.com/career Ignore the various misspellings and missing characters, our admins insist on importing resume's into our website by hand, and it shows  Of note: 1. Systems Engineer 2. Database Administrator 3. Network Engineer 4. IT Desktop Support I can speak the most about positions #1, #3 & #4. The Systems Engineer position will most likely be working on our Network Operations team, which has it's hand in almost every customer facing aspect of our data center environment. You can expect to deal with Linux (CentOS) and Windows (2008/2012) every day, with maybe some storage stuff thrown in (Equallogic). We expect solid skills in either Windows or Linux OS (kind of rare to find someone who is well versed in both) and would expect whomever we hire to train up to a mid-level understanding of the OS's we use in relatively short order. We're really looking for someone who can come in to kick rear end and take names. We're a pretty tight knit team that knows how to have fun, yet also knows when to buckle down and get to work. The company itself is pretty stable, our department specifically. We haven't had any layoffs in the time that I've been there (going on 2+ years) so if you find yourself enjoying the work, expect to stick around for a good, long while. Feel free to PM your resume + cover letter to me, or pepper me with any questions you might have.
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Wicaeed posted:I guess it's video game company hiring season or something? Same Wicaeed that played Eve? Small world. A lot of those job posting do not have locations. Are they remote work positions?
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Gainful employment is overrated anyways!
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Jul 15, 2014 18:59
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Internet Explorer posted:Same Wicaeed that played Eve? Small world. No, sorry. Our office is located in Redwood City, CA.
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Wondering if anyone has any insight to this. As the owner of a two shareholder private Canadian corporation, taking consulting contracts in Canada; How easy is it to get on-premise contracts with US clients? Do you need a TN to perform work if you're operating as a corp, not an employee? What if you're working remotely in Canada, but travel to the US for meetings?
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Position opening at my work in the DC area: Quality Assurance / Testing Tasks Develop comprehensive mockups and tests of customer's platform. Communicate with legal and development teams to ensure behavior matches rules set out. Work includes documenting and implementing tests in the system, tracking issues. We need a quick learner, someone who is exceptional working in a quantitative field.
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I'm part of a group at a publicly traded company in the Chicago Loop area, and we're hiring over a dozen people in entry to mid level Software Engineering. Group is part of a huge multinational corporation, but the group itself started recently and is in the process of scaling up quickly. The core objective of the group is research and development of a next-generation, real-time, big data processing platform for a specific, well-known industry (NDA applies for details, but I can say that domain knowledge is not a substantial requirement). Requirements Intermediate to expert core Java Intermediate to expert computer science skills (Big O, concurrency, data structures, graph theory) Intermediate software engineering skills (ability to design simple but non-trivial distributed system, learning new APIs quickly, pattern/anti-pattern knowledge) Intermediate Linux command line skills Ability to get things done - most weeks will be fairly relaxed, but a couple of weeks out of every few months are crunch time, and working nights and weekends is not unheard of because deadlines are real deadlines with real consequences for failure. Big pluses Experience with various AWS products Experience with Hadoop, Spring, Storm, Camel Experience with RESTful interfaces Experience with Agile methodoligies Nice to have Experience with Python, shell scripting, J2EE, Puppet, Ruby, JQuery/Javascript, and Clojure. Experience with Mercurial and SVN Positive notes Benefits are extremely good. Working from home when you feel like it is very common. 401k match is ridiculous, and there is also stock sharing with match. Full medical/dental/vision benefits at a very low cost. ~30 paid days off per year to start. Unfiltered, true 100Mbit internet, top of the line laptop (Windows or Apple) with fancy case, multiple 24" monitors with personal Linux server, high-end office chairs, and free pens, paper, and sticky notes (within reason). All-expenses-paid parties at nice places are a regular occurrence after deadlines. There are enormous opportunities for visionaries with the ability to implement their vision to showcase their ideas. We love people who get us patents. Mentors are assigned, and multiple, well-defined career paths are detailed. Negative notes Office is open-plan style. You will get more than enough rope to hang yourself with if you're looking for it. That is, it's easy to make decisions outside of your intended scope of responsibilities, but if your decisions go poorly, things will not end well. Contact PM resume or questions to me. I am not HR, a recruiter, or an officer of the company, but interviewing and hiring decisions are part of my responsibilities. I have no financial incentive to get you hired. The idea is that I will do a casual and unofficial ~30-minute conversation and coding phone screen before getting you into the official hiring process.
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Posting on behalf of a non-goon friend. Location: Philly metro area (west/north/Center City, not really looking for south Jersey) Experience: 10 years as a Windows senior sysadmin, senior desktop support, etc. A+, N+, Sec+, CCNA in progress. Looking for: Lateral move to another senior sysadmin role, or to a junior network admin role - she is very interested in getting more into networking. Not looking for: Helpdesk, development, QA Availability: Interviewing actively, will need to give two weeks' notice upon accepting an offer Contact info: PM me
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 (my img hosting) Amazon Web Services is growing like crazy and we are hiring for Technical Account Managers and Cloud Support Engineers. I am currently a TAM in Seattle and the job is awesome. Imagine an IT world where you are treated like a grownup and a professional and every day are given opportunities to learn new cutting edge cloud technologies and work along side really, really smart people. Yeah, it's here. If you have a working knowledge of enterprise systems administration (UNIX/Linux and/or Windows Server), have a strong customer focus and like fast-moving environments and are excited about technology, send me your c.v. at agrikk@gmail.com and I'll send it to some friends in H.R. for review. Where are we? I am based out of the Seattle WA office, but we are hiring for any AWS location, so essentially globally. What are we looking for? Technical Account Manager (note that this link sends to you the UK position, but we are hiring everywhere) Cloud Support Engineer (this is for a Dublin position, but we are hiring worldwide) How do I apply? Send me a PM or email me at my user name at gmail dot com. You can also apply through the web links above, but make sure to let me know so I can call out your resume to HR. Agrikk fucked around with this message at 01:25 on Jul 22, 2014 |
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Jul 18, 2014 19:15
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Where is "everywhere" or is there a list of locations?
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Very curious to know if "everywhere" would mean remote is OK too!
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Agrikk, sent you an email, and applied online (for the Cloud Support Engineer one), and am convincing my roommate to go ahead and just move us out to Portland or Seattle. I'm interested in either position, but prefer whichever one better lets me live out my dreams of being a terminal jockey.
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The AWS web site has a big list of open positions and which offices are hiring for them, so you should look there and find out of there's a gig for you open nearby. AWS has a pretty flexible telecommuting policy and a few TAMs work 100% remote. Basically if AWS decides they want you bad enough, they'll reach an accommodation. I myself could work 100% remotely, but I choose to go into the office three days a week because I like having a building full of experts ay my immediate disposal if I run into a problem. A list of AWS jobs by family is here and you can drill down into a role to see where there are positions available. edit: Hemick, I got your CV and will be forwarding it to my friend in HR. Good luck!
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Hey Agrikk, could you give a bit more detail about what the TAM position entails day to day? Sounds cool, I'd like to hear more 
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Hello all, first time posting a job here, I'm the technical support manager for a sat-com company in Virginia. I'm looking for a Technical Support specialist (1-6 years of experience) with experience in Satellite Communications and antenna hardware in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia. Full time position with pretty decent benefits, I'm looking for a candidate that can learn and adapt quickly to new technologies and problems. Outstanding troubleshooting and customer service skills are desired, Cisco certs are a huge plus. The job is 70% helping customers via phone and 30% hands on troubleshooting and repairing antenna and controller systems. Its a small but growing privately owned satellite communications provider that's been in business since the 90's. Feel free to PM me or just ask questions here, I'd rather not tell the whole world who my employer is but I'll answer what I can via the forums.
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My experience: 10 years windows systems admin for small companies (10-100 users), exchange migrations, entire environment migrations to colo, building entire environments from ground up and supporting them. Providing strategic recommendations to companies regarding their network, and then implementing those recommendations if they got the  . VCP. What I'm looking for: IT dir for a small company, or senior windows admin/lead admin for a large company. Where I'm looking: Denver or DC/MD/VA. Where I live: northern VA (would relocate to Denver) When I can start: August What are my requirements: let's talk Can be reached via: E-mail. skipprotection@gmail.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im06WcOSCss
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Xero is in CO and I think Windows based, they have goons, have you checked with them?
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The company I work for in Dallas, TX is looking to hire another support tech. This is an entry level-ish job, so expect entry-level pay. We're a web hosting company mostly doing dedicated (managed and unmanaged) servers. We need someone that knows enough about Linux, Windows, and basic troubleshooting to manage tickets on their own without a ton of hand-holding, as well as the ability to deal with customers who are sometimes out of their depth, confused, and angry. We're a pretty laid back group, and you get a fair amount of time on a regular basis to work on your skills, or various projects. I'm not the hiring manager, but would be passing resumes on to the guy that is. PM or email me at cstine(at)outlook.com.
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Experto Crede posted:Hey Agrikk, could you give a bit more detail about what the TAM position entails day to day? Sounds cool, I'd like to hear more Sure. A TAM at AWS provides white glove service to a set of Enterprise customers paying for premium support. I have a set of customers who spend upwards of a quarter of a million dollars a month on AWS services and I work closely with them to make sure they're doing it correctly. I fast-track and baby sit any tickets they might open with tech support, I perform deep dives with them to help them understand an AWS service, best practice, or what a well architected web application looking like from an infrastructure standpoint. Having a problem with Elastic Beanstalk or EC2 or S3? Let me walk down the hall to the guys who coded the stack and talk to them directly. On any given day I can be on the phone or webex with a customer, dealing with a pain point of theirs or a question that involves one of the AWS services, or analyzing their AWS utilization and figuring out how they can save money (consolidating to a larger EC2 instance, or shutting idle instances off, for example), or attending an AWS-hosted training session on a new feature or service (put on by the guy who coded the new feature or service). The TAM isn't as technical as a Cloud Support Engineer or an engineer on a Service Team (all AWS offerings are called services), aren't as market-y or sales-y or business-y as those guys, but is involved in all of it. We are expected to be generalists with a scope of knowledge five miles wide and two inches deep. You tend to get better at the services that your customers use the most and the areas of AWS that you don't use every day get a little cobwebby in your head. The best part of the gig in my opinion is that you get all of AWS as your playground. For free. While support engineers are allowed to spin up things to test, they are expected to terminate them after the ticket is closed. TAMs on the other hand build complete environments in multiple data centers world wide that mimic in some way their customers' so that they can deep dive into whatever the customer is working on. (A current pet project of mine is building a Folding@Home stats tracker using PHP/IIS/SQL Server. It currently is hosted in two data centers (East Coast and West Coast) with two beefy SQL 2012 servers replicating data between the two sites, serving up data to two pools of IIS servers, using geo load balancing to split global traffic between the two sites based on utilization and latency. All of this is hosted for free in AWS.) I liken a TAM role like a trauma surgeon on Grey's Anatomy: We spend a ton of time researching, learning, collaborating and helping, and when the poo poo hits the customer fan, we jump all over it and call in all the specialists from all the other teams to bring a case to successful conclusion. Are you an IT generalist who loves learning new poo poo all the time? Can you thrive in ambiguity while drinking from a firehose? This gig is for you. You will never be bored and you are always always learning. You are doing this in an environment with some smart loving people who really want to see you succeed. In 18 years in IT, this is by far the best job I have ever had. Period. Agrikk fucked around with this message at 05:11 on Jul 28, 2014 |
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How's working there? Amazon has been getting trashed online lately regarding the work environment. Is there a semblance of W/L balance or is it 50-80 hour weeks?
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skipdogg posted:How's working there? Amazon has been getting trashed online lately regarding the work environment. Is there a semblance of W/L balance or is it 50-80 hour weeks? If you are referring to the glassdoor reviews, consider that it's sixty or so folks out of a hundred thousand... That said, I hear software developers are pretty hammered, but that's strictly hearsay. I work 40 hour weeks, but those forty hours land typically on six days of the week: some days are shorter, some are longer and sometimes I work on a weekend day, but there is definitely balance. My manager is all about making the customer happy, and if that's the state of my customers, he leaves me alone and doesn't sweat the clock. Again, I can only speak for TAMs. I have no idea how the other teams are.
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Agrikk, I shot you a PM but no response - is the cloud support engineer happening out of the NYC location at all? I didn't see a posting for it, but since you mentioned worldwide, figured I'd ask.
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The Washington Post is hiring. Where are we Mostly D.C., some NYC What are we looking for? Lots: http://careers.washingtonpost.com/job_openings I can answer questions about native apps team though. How do I apply? I can't blindly give out references but if we have ever talked in the past shoot me an email and I can see what I can do. Otherwise the website eventually. Something not listed on the website: * Expanding Work From Home (not mandatory, currently about 2 days a week) * Work environment/tooling is dependent on your team. Plug: It's really nice in native apps side. * Everything else is what you would expect from a larger company trying to attract good talent.
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Any idea about the infrastructure team? And how is the pay compared to the rest of the area?
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psydude posted:Any idea about the infrastructure team? And how is the pay compared to the rest of the area? Pay for the area is "market" for non cleared work from what I gather. What that means is that if you have a high government clearance and work on some high value contract we might not be-able to match salary wise. But probably more than any local startup. Kallikrates fucked around with this message at 18:10 on Jul 28, 2014 |
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MJP posted:Agrikk, I shot you a PM but no response - is the cloud support engineer happening out of the NYC location at all? I didn't see a posting for it, but since you mentioned worldwide, figured I'd ask. Hey MJP and everyone else who pm-ed or emailed me: I've received your emails and PMs, but I was out on vacation all last week. I'll be contacting y'all in the next 24 hours with updates. To your question, MJP, The closest support office to NYC is in Herndon, Virginia. However lots of people telecommute and we have a few people who are 100% remote and come into the office once or twice a quarter. YMMV but I suggest applying and seeing what happens. If you are good enough and rock the interview they might hook you up.
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Kallikrates posted:Pay for the area is "market" for non cleared work from what I gather. Well, I applied for the network engineer position even though I wouldn't consider myself "senior." Honest question: do you think the Post is going to be able to effectively capitalize on the shift to mobile platforms?
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Ever since the Bezo's event we have a lot of cool initiatives going on in many places other than just mobile. One plan is to basically be Amazon AWS for news, we are already starting to expand partnerships in this direction country/worldwide with local news outlets. Time will tell on our success, we aren't strapped for cash for now. Bezo's is willing to not turn a profit while we experiment, and that experimentation is allowing some cool work business wise and engineering wise. People still pay for good news we just have to find a balance of products/content that supports the journalism that draws readers. An interesting impartial article was written about all the changes at the Post where we are trying to head toward: http://www.cjr.org/cover_story/washington_post_jeff_bezos.php?page=all Kallikrates fucked around with this message at 16:16 on Jul 29, 2014 |
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Agrikk posted:To your question, MJP, The closest support office to NYC is in Herndon, Virginia. And the Herndon office is pretty sweet! (I'm an engineer on a service team, not support, but the whole office is full of smart folks) Agrikk posted:However lots of people telecommute and we have a few people who are 100% remote and come into the office once or twice a quarter. YMMV but I suggest applying and seeing what happens. If you are good enough and rock the interview they might hook you up. This is completely true; if you impress the group you interview with, some positions can be surprisingly flexible.
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A few of you have contacted me about what you can do in your current job to prepare for a jump into AWS as a Cloud Support Engineer. Rather than respond individually, I thought I'd make the post public: A Cloud Support Engineer (CSE) is the front-line case-taker. To some they are considered the help desk for AWS, but I believe they are much more than that. Like Help Desk, the CSE needs to be really good at dealing with ambiguity and is constantly forced to expand their skill set as they received cases from customers that the CSE might not understand. The CSE is an extremely technical position and it is expected that you will soon have a deep understanding of one or more of the AWS services while being able to have an intelligent conversation on the rest of them. You will have a massive array of in-house developed tools at your disposal, and some say mastery of the tools at hand is harder than learning about the AWS services themselves. The right tool for the right job holds true here and knowing which tool to use is 60% of the task. Everything in AWS talks to everything else and therefore, a CSE must have a strong grasp of networking concepts and protocols (Subnets, routing, CIDR blocks, gateways, TCP/IP, the differences between TCP and UDP, DNS and DHCP operation) as well as exposure to virtualization (EC2 is basically the biggest virtual machine farm ever) and understand what goes on when you deploy a new linux/windows virtual machine from a deployment template. A deep knowledge in a subject that you are passionate about is important. While you are at your current gig, keep your eyes open for technology that you want to spend a lot of time in. Do you want to be a networking guru? A storage expert? A database god? a deployment manager? A security nazi? a deployment and scripting genius? Big Data developer? What blows your skirt up in tech? You should spend your free time at work and some more at home exploring new tech and developing a passion for something- because there will be times when that passion for tech is all that keeps you going. Play with MySQL or SQL Server Express, stand up some virtual machines on your laptop or home PC using Xen or Hyper-V and look into buying some cheap CCNA kits off of eBay and see if you like routing/networking. This passion will translate well during your interviews at AWS and the interviewer will immediately recognize it. AWS looks for a proven track record of being customer focused and displaying personal initiative to overcome technical obstacles in the face of ambiguity. I will keep linking this because I cannot stress this enough. Learn the Amazon Leadership Principles and map everything you do to them. Good Luck!
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hackedaccount posted:Is it true that Amazon is an "up or out" environment? I've heard from several sources that it is. I can't speak to the whole, but Amazon Web Services isn't like that at all. They are definitely geared towards retaining talent, to the point that during my orientation they told us to start thinking about the next position you want, so that if/when you get burnt out or bored you can move to another team and a new role within the organization. Talent is hard to come by and they really really want to keep it. They recognize that money only goes so far for retention: when a nerd gets bored he starts looking for new shiny things to play with.
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Agrikk posted:I can't speak to the whole, but Amazon Web Services isn't like that at all. They are definitely geared towards retaining talent, to the point that during my orientation they told us to start thinking about the next position you want, so that if/when you get burnt out or bored you can move to another team and a new role within the organization. Talent is hard to come by and they really really want to keep it. I haven't heard that, at ALL. In fact, the multiple people I've talked to in AWS are unhappy because they WON'T give them raises and so their churn is monstrous. Edit: They also have this weird culture thing where they won't ever re-hire. It's kind of cultish. If you leave once you're out and they take it like some sort of betrayal. Bhodi fucked around with this message at 12:42 on Aug 4, 2014 |
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