Comment by MattRogish | Hacker News Reader

Comment by MattRogish | Hacker News Reader

ReactiveOps | REMOTE, Anywhere BUT must have legal right to work in US & pass Gov't required background check(s) | Senior Site Reliability Engineers / Consultants @ ReactiveOps, Inc (https://www.reactiveops.com/careers/site-reliability-enginee...)

We're a completely distributed company performing two important services for our clients: 1) DevOps consulting (infrastructure automation, dockerization, creating high availability infrastructures/DR, chatops implementations, etc.)

2) Ongoing retainer-based services, functioning as our client's "outsourced, in-house (dev)-ops team" (stuff from #1, database administration, ongoing platform maintenance and support, pager duty, etc.)

We're looking for Senior, been-there-done-that Ops professionals, Docker architects, AWS experts, Linux kernel hackers, etc. - we prefer full-time perm but have enough work to take on folks looking for a more flexible arrangement (1099/contract here and there), too.

You must be able to pass a criminal background check and go through certain clearance measures required by our state/federal Government clients.

Contact me, the CEO and co-founder at: matt [at] reactiveops dot com

I look forward to speaking with you!

Do you really mean "US Citizens only", which can be legally problematic in some cases I believe, or "people with legal authorization to work in the US for any employer"? Unless you are doing something with the USG or which falls under ITAR you almost certainly mean the latter -- don't want to exclude good candidates who have green cards/permanent residency, etc.

>REMOTE, Anywhere BUT must have legal right to work in US

Maybe you should change BUT to AND. It seems contradictory otherwise, given the REMOTE, Anywhere.

>Anywhere BUT US citizens ONLY

This is illegal.

https://www.workplacefairness.org/immigration-status#6

Also, why?

My understanding is only US citizens can go through certain clearance/background checks required by our clients. Although perhaps it's just folks with a valid right-to-work? I don't know for certain, I'll amend it to be "valid right to work in US" and clarify for clearance reasons.

If they need a clearance, then in all but very, very limited circumstances they must be US citizens.

Some sensitive industries like defense will DEF require citizenship for getting immediate clearance OR future scenarios where you'll need a clearance

This is most definitely _not_ illegal if US citizenship is required to perform the job, which is the case in any job dealing with classified information.

Or export restricted things like anything covered by ITAR, which is not always classified.

Being a US citizen doesn't automatically mean you get all security clearances. There are many levels/variations of security clearance and job requirement should state what clearance they are looking for.

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