Location: Ireland, EU
Remote: YES (strongly preferred)
Willing to relocate: no
Technologies:
- Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, CentOS/RedHat, LFS)
- Services: Apache, Samba, NFS, bind (DNS), Kerberos, OpenAFS, MySQL, Zabbix, Nagios, Monit, Amanda,
- Security: OSSIM, OSSEC/Wazuh, USM Anywhere,
- Automation: FAI, Ansible,
- Scripting: Bash, Python,
- Containers: Docker, Kubernetes,
Résumé/CV: available by e-mail, Email: pk.b@interia.pl
About me: 30 years of experience with Linux based systems, on desktop, server and in the cloud. Experienced in sysadmin and technical support roles, troubleshooting complex problems with hardware and software over SSH and in web browser.
Résumé/CV: available by e-mail,
Email: pk.b@interia.pl
About me: 30 years of experience with Linux based systems, on desktop, server and in the cloud.
Experienced in sysadmin and technical support roles, troubleshooting complex problems with hardware
and software over SSH and in web browser.
1) You have no network in the US. You will have to start from scratch.
Remember how you started. Multiply difficulty level by 2. And you're not going to be any younger.
2) Salaries for perm positions being "significantly lower" in the US than in EU.
This nullifies gains from moving to the US. Add cost of moving everything over long range by plane/cargo ship.
3) Healthcare cost. My friend asked me once about cost of dental care in Ireland (where I live now). I replied 'it depends, between 30-60 euro'. He was quoted 13000 dollars for one tooth job. Think about this double hard, you're 50 and you won't get any younger.
4) Friends and your peers will stay in the EU. You won't see any of them for months and years. Factor in plane ticket prices. You won't be coming home to visit family for Christmas.
Just few things from top of my head, but I think they are important.
>Salaries for perm positions being "significantly lower" in the US than in EU
On HN, we hear all the time that the inverse is true. Is it because high salaries are limited to Silicon Valley?
In Western Europe, freelancers with good credentials and a large network can have yearly gross revenuу of 100..200k€. Is this comparable to US freelance revenue?
who would pay 13000$ for one tooth? that can cover air tickets, vacation, tooth job and extra money to save in most of the world including most EU countries, that's insane price
...that was end user price, after factoring in private insurance plan.
For 13000, you can buy tickets in both directions, vacation, tooth job - and buy local car in the target country if renting one exceeds 1000 usd [1].
Add requirement for every user to have to solve
mathematical equation before being allowed to post
anything. Make it hard requirement and enforce at
all times.
DON'T. RabbitMQ is fragile and breaks under low memory/high swap conditions. Usually due to epmd breaking.
I know, have to fix it (usually by killing epmd) daily.
I've seen downstream services fail and RMQ have to swap hundreds of millions of messages to disk, and then resume by itself as consumers picked up... maybe this issue you see affects certain versions?
1) For hardware you want cheap, expendable, bare metal.
Look up posts about how Google built their own servers
for reference.
2) For RAID, go with software only RAID. You will sidestep
problems caused by hardware RAID controllers having
custom data format each (i.e. non-swapable for different model/make).
3) For filesystem, look for OpenAFS. CERN is using OpenAFS
to store petabytes of data from LHC.
4) For operating system, look at Debian. Coupled with FAI (fully automated installation), it will enable you to deploy
multiple servers in an automated way, to host your files.
About me: 30 years of experience with Linux based systems, on desktop, server and in the cloud. Experienced in sysadmin and technical support roles, troubleshooting complex problems with hardware and software over SSH and in web browser.
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