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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In my opinion Lemmy.world should start selling a bit of merchandising (tishirt and so on), just to add a little on the donation side.
BTW. the donation links are in the group info.
I read it as Lemmy World PsyOp at first and thought there some conspiracy happening on the instace. lol. Good luck on your search!
Lemmy World psychological operations, the secret communist agenda of the administration team!!! leaked!
I did as well! After I read your post I went back up to review the post headline
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.
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.
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.
The thing is. Not to grow. LW wants to get stable.
Understandable, but aren’t growth and instability related in this case? There are many instances with capacity that are already run by capable people. Just spread the load (ahem) across the Lemmy verse and only handle as much as you can. But maybe I’m missing a point, I just think that this would be the best for Lemmy in the long run.
I mean is that even up to them? People gravitate to the places with the most content, and right now that’s lemmy world. I think the only way they could combat that is to make lemmy world private, but it might lead to people not using lemmy at all instead of spreading out to other instances.
The other option I see is to make the instances more specialized and basically do away with generalist instances like lemmy world. So you have an instance focused on news with its own subcommunities, one for gaming, one for politics etc. But that could hurt usability. It’s not an easy problem to solve.
I agree with your points and like the idea of more specialized instances and also country related instances. I think it’s solvable if the different admins work together.
Lemmy.world doesn’t have to go private, they could just not accept more users and communities for a while. It wouldn’t change much since everyone will still be able to post and comment on Lemmy.world from all instances. New users would just have to choose a different instance that’s all.
For me that’s the whole point, I don’t see any benefit of a big instance, the Lemmyverse doesn’t need one.
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.
Get rid of TLS 1.0 and 1.1 - good luck 👍
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….
This is really tempting actually. Do you by chance need someone with skills in various storage technologies?
Like empty vans, and storage lockers?
My man!
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.
Or just run everything in containers and use stock ubuntu or aws Linux or whatever.
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.
If you need a janitor I can help but back end stuff is over my head.
Nice, I’m so tempted to apply, but i will take a few hours while at work to consider it. It would be a win-win. The BOFH cartoon part is just a bonus :D
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)
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?
