SRE's in the Aerospace/Telecom Space

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30616885

by thrawn • 4 years ago

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Hi, i'm an SRE who recruits other SRE's for placement into interesting startups. In addition to the standard stuff, requirements such as DevOps, Automation, Kubernetes, Cloud Native, AWS, etc. I'm looking for people with reliability engineering experience in at least one of the following: Aerospace, Space, Telecom, RF communications, Autonomous vehicles. Any suggestions on where to locate people with these dual/hybrid skillsets? e.g. job boards, message boards, and the like? If you have such hybrid skills, where do you go to look for interesting positions? any info would be much appreciated! thx

techdragon• 4 years ago

A lot of these people get strong word of mouth referrals to their next roles. I’ve got a passing familiarity with the “Aerospace” SRE due to the satellite instrument and cubesat Linux ecosystem. And at least as far as I can tell, while there’s lots of people with the skills, not a lot of them would probably go around advertising themselves as SREs.

You’re best off looking at what each field has historically called it’s SR3 equivalent roles, like “chief engineer” or “lead engineer” for a lot of various aerospace engineering roles. These are the people expected to know everyone who knows anything they don’t and who are called in when the shit hits the fan.

In fact that’s a good way to boil it down, if you’re trying to find these SRE type people In other fields, “are you the person they call when shit hits the fan an no one else has answers?”

Hope the perspective helps!

thrawn2• 4 years ago

lol this is great stuff, thank you for your insight and advice, techdragon. satellite instrument and cubesat linux ecosystem = this is relevant to my interests, so ty again

thrawn2• 4 years ago

have you worked on a cubesat mission?