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

[redguava]

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.

[czbond]

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.

[tectonic → czbond]

We found a great DevOps guy from Stackoverflow.

[orangethirty]

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.

[anderspetersson]

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

[redguava → anderspetersson]

Thanks.

[WestCoastJustin]

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 ;)

[ig1]

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

[atsaloli]

Email sajobs@lists.lopsa.org

LOPSA is a professional association by and for system administrators.

[CptCodeMonkey → atsaloli]

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.