Ask HN: Where should I advertise to find a great DevOps person?

6 points·redguava··9 comments

Just wondering if anyone has any tips for a good place to advertise to find a DevOps person.

I prefer to find industry specific job boards if possible.

It may be harder to find DevOps industry specific (unless you're say in the financial/energy sectors/health care sectors which have specific operational requirements. (eg: security, etc).

Look at Stackoverflow careers, and specifically contributors in the "Server Fault", "Super user", and "Unix/Linux" sections.

Linux boards on google groups and local Linux meetups.

We found a great DevOps guy from Stackoverflow.

I run a mailing list specifically for software related jobs (including DevOps). Check it out here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5150829). Its free, and an effort to reduce spam from recruiters.

It's not industry specific, but there are probably alot of DevOps on HN, so you could use the "Who is hiring"-thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5150834

Thanks.

I'd suggest craigslist.org. One major pet peeve is BS in job postings. Don't ask for 5+ years with a technology that has been around for 3 ;)

Email sajobs@lists.lopsa.org

LOPSA is a professional association by and for system administrators.

I've been thinking of switching from being a software engineer to DevOps, would this be a good association in doing that?

While I enjoy coding, I've found that most really challenging backend positions are few & far between. DevOp's seems like a guarantee of finding more challenging work experience.

I'd recommend http://devopsweekly.com/

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