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I've found that Dice is a good place to post a technical resume, but for job searches, I strongly recommend indeed.com It is a job board aggregator that will search Dice, Hotjobs, Careerbuilder, Monster, and a bunch of other boards that you may never have heard of. It has some nice features. You can give it a location (i.e. Chicago) and search criteria (i.e. "System Admin") and it will remember that search. The next time you come back to the site, it will show you the number of new matches for that criteria. You can filter results by location ("within 25 miles"), salary ("> 60,000") and other criteria. I found my current job by using indeed.com.

Hi there! Since this is a globally remote company, salary expectations are variable. If you are interested, I would like to know what you are targeting as I am incentivized to make you as much as possible. I forsee a salary range of 130-170k DOE. Here is my calendly if anyone would like to grab time on the phone, I can provide more information and next steps if this is worth exploring for you https://calendly.com/sviz

Ouch.

Linux admins tend to make about $10k more for the same job vs Windows sysadmins for the same job, so there's that. But I might be biased :)

No problem! I will be honest, AWS Global was a nightmare but it has been made slightly easier by the new Korea region opening up (I did post some rather crude, non-scientific findings on my blog here if you're interested) and I don't need to use a VPN anymore to get a decent connection to it. The console is however virtually unusable without a VPN.

IPSEC may work and I actually never explored it, but you likely want multiple options. I use Astrill's StealthVPN option (a bit pricey, but it does seem the fastest option) and my own server in AWS Korea with ShadowSocks on it when Astrill is acting up.

There's some good info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9052727

You should compare this with glassdoor and balance it out. There is a huge demand for Engineering talent in the NYC area, especially from the big financials - this drives the salary range up for other industries with these skillsets.

Average salary in NYC for a talented Sr. Engineer is 140 to 180+K, 100k+ is the going Sr. rate for any other reasonable sized (non-SV) metropolitan area with a vibrant tech scene (NC, TX, VA, etc).

Other sources: I've worked as a Sr. Engineer in reasonably sized metropolitan areas for the last decade across a few industries.

indeed link for the lazy

http://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=6e6f106f486e16ac&qd=0Hh1gonihI2Gqty8x0stqYcoYyLZZLY3xN8ZFEPhkMRIALlz3t1GyYKZxT_Ag67bwS9n6B_Ujtq7r6_lHthd0rQfRzeYeOX0tSWipACH4DH_eDlBYRvHxafbcGGp-ArsbkBpqHBsreWGZuP_-DkUBZCHCCBZRkS8e03k5wO0A9s&chnl=b-38&...

Taking the matching associates test is one of the prerequisites, yes.

Solutions Architect Pro requires Solutions Architect Associates

Devops Pro requires either Developer Associates or SysOp Associates

For example, look at AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional under "Exam Overview". Its the first bullet point.

the struggles of recruiting - since it's a globally remote company, salary expectations are variable based on location, target, and experience. here's my calendly if you'd like to grab time on the phone to explore the role further and arrange some next steps https://calendly.com/sviz

For the vast majority of jobs (such as our most recent positing for a site reliability engineer: https://trello.com/jobs/site-reliability-engineer) remote work is definitely an option, but this specific role is exclusively set in New York City.

Joining the choir here. A reasonable scenario would be: You take the job, get 18 months of experience in security and audit, then the startup goes under. You then have new experience for your resume, and your old skills are still relevant. Couple of other thoughts...

1) Build a cushion. On your path, you need a good 3 month cushion of money to survive on whilst between gigs. 6 is nice, but 3 is necessary. For me it was vacation time, since I rarely took it and most companies would pay me out for unused vacation time. Super-new companies are starting to say "take all the PTO you want, no more 'banked' hours", buy YMMV.

2) Know your area. If you're in a reasonably urban area with a number of employers, then good. If jobs are fewer and farther between where you live, then a startup is notably more risky. The remote market (contracting and/or upwork.com and the like) can work to get you by, but it takes a while to get up and running. Generally, the more you NEED a remote gig to get you by, the harder they are to get.

Last) Get to know or follow some recruiters. I hate to recommend this, as it means your inbox will be pummelled till the end of time with email from Szed who has a great 6 month contract available for you in Nowhereclosetoyou, US, doing notyourjob, but knowing your local recruiters (There are maybe 6 of them, and they rotate out every 8 months or so) can change your 6 month slog into 6 weeks.

p.s. All bets are off if the economy goes titsup. It seems like we're overdue, but so far I can't point to something coming that will crater us except the national debt, and if that hammer falls, we're all fucked.

You should send an application using the apply now button on one of our job listings. Bonus points if you have a Stackoverflow Careers profile :-P

As for questions: ask here if you want or PM Alienth or Myself and we'll answer best we can.

I'll ask it before anyone else does: What is your desired salary range, for real? 60-110k? Other?

Even though I have no desire for this position, I'll post about my homelab cause I love it.

• 250/250Mb FTTH https://www.speedtest.net/result/8043415106.png
• Opnsense running on an old laptop with 5 segmented VLANs (except a rule for letting my guess wifi access my Lan printer): Lan, guest, downstairs renters, IoT, and another private wifi.
• Ubiquiti AP driving the wifi connections.
• Further downstream, a Fortigate 61E for tinkering around
• Hyper-V host for my Ubuntu, Kali, domain controller, Fog imaging server, and winX testbox.
• And of course, virtualbox on my computer for some little things like Fog test targets

Oh, one more thing. If you're looking to get into Powershell, I'd recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/Automate-Boring-Stuff-PowerShell-Sysadmins/dp/1593279183/ref=sr_1_3?crid=111LF581DPM2S&dchild=1&keywords=powershell+for+sysadmins&qid=1601612037&sprefix=powershell+for+sys%2Caps%2C166&sr=8-3

I would say it's similar in a lot of ways. You're already used to objects, that was a big hurdle for me when I went from VBS to PS.

You alraady have an understanding of .NET which is super helpful for gui creation and other incidents whee a proper cmdlet isn't available.

Syntax is different, but the same can be said of any different "language." You do I've a leg up on containers though which are coming to PS.

I would say give you a month with the hop of this site and this book and you'll be proficient.