# We're Hiring a Sysadmin
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-hiring-a-sysadmin/27874
**Category:** Blog
**Created:** [April 23, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-hiring-a-sysadmin/27874 "2015-04-23T19:13:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-hiring-a-sysadmin/27874/1 "2015-04-23T19:13:11Z")
Discourse has been growing by leaps and bounds, and we’re deep into the 1.3 release, which has some exciting new features.
Along with this growth, there have been some growing pains, mostly in the area of keeping up with configuration changes in our infrastructure. Which reminds me, have you followed @discourse on Twitter? If not, you should!
It has become very clear that we need someone here at Discourse working full time on system adminstration and ops.
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This topic is for comments on the original blog entry at: [We’re Hiring a Sysadmin](http://blog.discourse.org/2015/04/were-hiring-a-sysadmin/)
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### Author:  [@cregox](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cregox)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2015, 7:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-hiring-a-sysadmin/27874/2 "2015-04-23T19:40:27Z")
If I don’t fulfill every single requirement with excellence, should I even bother applying?
I’m pretty sure this will get plenty of applications and you’ll probably filter out based on that first. Right? 😛
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2015, 8:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-hiring-a-sysadmin/27874/3 "2015-04-23T20:37:04Z")
The main requirement needs to be strongly met:
> Deep Linux sysadmin background, ideally in a hosting environment
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### Author:  [@purldator](https://meta.discourse.org/u/purldator)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2015, 12:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-hiring-a-sysadmin/27874/4 "2015-04-24T00:43:31Z")
This sounds like a calling but I’d be dead weight while learning the ropes of the items underlined at “automation experience” and “tools we rely on”. I planned on learning those technologies but again, temporarily unable to do standard due to knowledge limitations.
I am also available on call since I really don’t sleep that much, haha.
Best of luck to whoever nabs this dream job.
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### Author:  [@kewubenduben](https://meta.discourse.org/u/kewubenduben)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2015, 1:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-hiring-a-sysadmin/27874/5 "2015-04-24T01:53:48Z")
I’m interested on the job 💗 Count me in.
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### Author:  [@Pirat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Pirat)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2015, 7:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-hiring-a-sysadmin/27874/7 "2015-04-28T07:57:19Z")
I would have tried but I’m from Russia :areyoukiddingme:
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### Author:  [@AmiAthena](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AmiAthena)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2015, 4:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-hiring-a-sysadmin/27874/8 "2015-05-03T04:54:08Z")
I know someone who might be interested if this position still open, I’ll send him the link.
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### Author:  [@mshappe](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mshappe)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2015, 1:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-hiring-a-sysadmin/27874/9 "2015-05-09T01:57:24Z")
Has this been filled yet? I’m currently hunting a bit and might be interested. I’ve mainly been software engineer but I always wind up also doing devops/sysadmin for whomever I work for, and I’ve been running a small webhosting service on the side for over a decade. Unix Sysadmin is where I started…
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2015, 1:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-hiring-a-sysadmin/27874/10 "2015-05-09T01:58:12Z")
Has not been filled, feel free to apply, particularly if we “know” you from meta!
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### Author:  [@mshappe](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mshappe)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2015, 2:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-hiring-a-sysadmin/27874/11 "2015-05-09T02:08:28Z")
Application sent 😄 Let me know what you think!
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/were-hiring-a-sysadmin/27874/12 "2016-04-18T21:02:13Z")