KCLUG September 2024

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Fwd: Jack Henry - Sr Release Engineer opening (remote work from home) (6 month contract to hire, up to $120k)
by Jonathan Hutchins 26 Sep '24

26 Sep '24

I think they're unlikely to find someone who's been working their workflow for siz years, but in case somebody's interested: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Jack Henry - Sr Release Engineer opening (remote work from home) (6 month contract to hire, up to $120k) Date: 2024-09-26 16:12 From: "Fellers, Brian" <bfellers(a)teksystems.com> To: "Fellers, Brian" <bfellers(a)teksystems.com> Hello, BELOW IS THE JOB DESCRIPTION FOR THE SR RELEASE ENGINEER OPENING WE HAVE WITH JACK HENRY. THIS IS A REMOTE WORK FROM HOME 6 MONTH CONTRACT TO HIRE OPENING WITH A SALARY OF UP TO $120K. PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU KNOW ANYONE WHO WOULD BE INTERESTED IN OPENINGS WITH JACK HENRY. Details: * Remote work from home * Pay up to 120k salary Description & Requirements At Jack Henry, we deliver technology solutions that are digitally transforming and empowering community banks and credit unions to provide enhanced and streamlined user experiences to their customers and members. Our best-in-class products are just the start as we lay the groundwork for the future of digital banking and payments. We hope you'll join us. We can't do it without you. A Release Coordinator is responsible for owning the planning and coordination of all phases and activities involved in the release of a system or system update into the production environment. Their role facilitates release meetings, ensures release readiness, and develops release deployment plans based on input from multiple stakeholders within various teams. They would identify priorities, conflicts, dependencies, and risks for the release. Perhaps more importantly, the Release Coordinator ensures that plans are in place to mitigate those risks. A Release Coordinator confirms the release deployment plan is followed and that all release deliverables (usually in the form of Release Activities or entry/exit criterion) have been completed inline with the release dates and deadlines. Typically, we would expect to see release notes, approvals, communications, contact lists and pre and post-release verification activities also managed by the Release Coordinator. This position is fully remote, working hours would flexibly be 8-5 EST. What you'll be responsible for: · Facilitates release planning meetings with key stakeholders (Devops and release teams) and development teams to identify proper sequencing of release packages. Ensures that issues and risks are identified, understood, and dealt with in a manner that mitigates risk to scope and schedule. Works with Infrastructure and Database teams to mitigate risks associated with downtime and long-running scripts/processes. · Defines and documents the release recommendation for each release and/or change to production. Includes release scope, schedule, deliverables, and roll back plan. Reviews release recommendation with key stakeholders. · Review Release Notes for accuracy and completeness. Documents and communicates all changes for a release in release notes which are published to both the internal team and the client. · Attends change management such as CABs and deployment planning meetings to collect data and information pertaining to the release. · Pursues IT and Project compliance with release acceptance criteria. · Provides outage information and fills out service level agreement blackout request. · Supports release execution by monitoring of each phase of the release. Validates the release as it progresses thru various release gates and test phases, alerts appropriate stakeholders of any errors or issues that need to be addressed. · Verifies capture of customer acceptance/signoff on deliverables. Post-production validation: was it deployed correctly, and did it meet acceptance criteria? · Facilitates Release Retro sessions within days after a release is completed. Assigns action items with owners and timeline commitments to resolve. (Release Issue Tracker Items) · Facilitates Incident Retro sessions withing 5 days of incident. Assigns action items with owners and timeline commitments to resolve. (Incident/Watch Items) · May perform other job duties as assigned. What you'll need to have: · Six years of experience in release management with Agile methodology · Experience with project management tools - for example Azure DevOps for managing and tracking work items. What would be nice for you to have: · Bachelor's degree · Certified Scrum Master or Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or RTE Release Train Engineer · Ability to Communication and Collaborate up, down, and across - with Leadership, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Software Engineers, Application Support Engineers, and Release Engineers. · Good Understanding of SDLC and Release Processes with Agile Methodology. Best regards, Brian Fellers | Lead Professional Recruiter T 913.982.4972 | M 785.250.7060 | bfellers(a)TEKsystems.com 800.318.2074 | F 913.982.5053 -- Jonathan

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Virtual event with Audrey Tang
by Chris Bier 18 Sep '24

18 Sep '24

https://www.mymcpl.org/events/101242/facing-future-audrey-tang?utm_source=c… She's an open source and open democracy advocate and served as Minister of Digital Affairs of Taiwan. It's pretty cool a local library is getting interviews with world class open source people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang

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Re: KCLUG Digest, Vol 130, Issue 1
by Sean Crago 14 Sep '24

14 Sep '24

Mmm... Second shift. On Sat, Sep 14, 2024, 13:07 <kclug-request(a)kclug.org> wrote: > Send KCLUG mailing list submissions to > kclug(a)kclug.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via email, send a message with subject or > body 'help' to > kclug-request(a)kclug.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > kclug-owner(a)kclug.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of KCLUG digest..." > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Fwd: General Communications - DevOps Engineer (remote work from > home) (6 month contract to potential hire) > (Jonathan Hutchins) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 16:12:23 -0500 > From: Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins(a)tarcanfel.org> > Subject: Fwd: General Communications - DevOps Engineer (remote work > from home) (6 month contract to potential hire) > To: KCLUG <kclug(a)kclug.org> > Message-ID: <b45ae946e850e25af6be0330fceb6ef2(a)tarcanfel.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > > Anybody interested in Alaska? This job description actually seems sane. > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: General Communications - DevOps Engineer (remote work from > home) (6 month contract to potential hire) > Date: 2024-09-13 15:02 > From: "Fellers, Brian" <bfellers(a)teksystems.com> > To: "Fellers, Brian" <bfellers(a)teksystems.com> > > Hello, > > Below is the job description for the DevOps Engineer opening we have > with General Communications. This is a remote work from home 6 month > contract with potential extensions or conversion to permanent opening. > General Communications is the main communications company in Alaska. > Please let me know if you know anyone who would be interested in this > opening. > > Must be available to support the Alaskan time zone hours which is 3 > hours behind central time zone > > Top Skills - Must Haves > > * Devops > * Ansible > * kubernetes > * Terraform > * Python > * Scripting > > Top Skills' Details > > Ansible, Kubernetes and Terraform. Azure of AWS. > > Secondary Skills - Nice to Haves > > * Azure > * Cloud > * vmware > * Automation > * Infrastructure > * Aws > > Job Description > > GCI's DevOps Engineer III is responsible for the Development Operations > (DevOps) function of the organization; works collaboratively with > multiple Engineers and functions to develop, deploy, and maintain the > organizations software and/or systems. DevOps function strives to > achieve improved deployment frequency for faster time to market, > shortened lead time between fixes, and quicker recovery time in the > event of a new release failure. This is achieved though development of > system automation, scaling efficient repeatability with Continuous > Delivery methodologies, and building out technology providing effective > reliability. > ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES AT ALL LEVELS: > Responsible for the design, implementation, and support of large-scale > infrastructure across multiple cloud solutions. > > Automate and streamline operations and processes to rapidly release > reliable applications faster and more frequently. > > Build and maintain tools for deployment and testing in stable and > scalable production environments. > > Best regards, > > Brian Fellers | Lead Professional Recruiter > T 913.982.4972 | M 785.250.7060 | bfellers(a)TEKsystems.com > 800.318.2074 | F 913.982.5053 > 7421 W 129th St, Suite #300, Overland Park, KS 66213 > <https://www.google.com/maps/search/7421+W+129th+St,+Suite+%23300,+Overland+…> > > > -- > Jonathan > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > KCLUG mailing list -- kclug(a)kclug.org > To unsubscribe send an email to kclug-leave(a)kclug.org > %(web_page_url)slistinfo/%(_internal_name)s > > ------------------------------ > > End of KCLUG Digest, Vol 130, Issue 1 > ************************************* >

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Fwd: General Communications - DevOps Engineer (remote work from home) (6 month contract to potential hire)
by Jonathan Hutchins 13 Sep '24

13 Sep '24

Anybody interested in Alaska? This job description actually seems sane. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: General Communications - DevOps Engineer (remote work from home) (6 month contract to potential hire) Date: 2024-09-13 15:02 From: "Fellers, Brian" <bfellers(a)teksystems.com> To: "Fellers, Brian" <bfellers(a)teksystems.com> Hello, Below is the job description for the DevOps Engineer opening we have with General Communications. This is a remote work from home 6 month contract with potential extensions or conversion to permanent opening. General Communications is the main communications company in Alaska. Please let me know if you know anyone who would be interested in this opening. Must be available to support the Alaskan time zone hours which is 3 hours behind central time zone Top Skills - Must Haves * Devops * Ansible * kubernetes * Terraform * Python * Scripting Top Skills' Details Ansible, Kubernetes and Terraform. Azure of AWS. Secondary Skills - Nice to Haves * Azure * Cloud * vmware * Automation * Infrastructure * Aws Job Description GCI's DevOps Engineer III is responsible for the Development Operations (DevOps) function of the organization; works collaboratively with multiple Engineers and functions to develop, deploy, and maintain the organizations software and/or systems. DevOps function strives to achieve improved deployment frequency for faster time to market, shortened lead time between fixes, and quicker recovery time in the event of a new release failure. This is achieved though development of system automation, scaling efficient repeatability with Continuous Delivery methodologies, and building out technology providing effective reliability. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES AT ALL LEVELS: Responsible for the design, implementation, and support of large-scale infrastructure across multiple cloud solutions. Automate and streamline operations and processes to rapidly release reliable applications faster and more frequently. Build and maintain tools for deployment and testing in stable and scalable production environments. Best regards, Brian Fellers | Lead Professional Recruiter T 913.982.4972 | M 785.250.7060 | bfellers(a)TEKsystems.com 800.318.2074 | F 913.982.5053 7421 W 129th St, Suite #300, Overland Park, KS 66213 -- Jonathan

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seeking optical media for turbine rotors
by David Nicol 05 Sep '24

05 Sep '24

Has anyone got a spindle of disks they have been contemplating throwing out but haven't yet? A friend and I are building a model tesla turbine and need a couple hundred. -- "At first it doesn't make any sense, which is perfectly all right" -- Ken Nordine

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