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@dtauvdiodr@c.im  ·  activity timestamp last week

It's time to throw the line out again.

I have been working in SRE for 13 years. I am a specialist in Observability, Incident Management, and DevEx. I have also managed teams and been certified in observability, agile, and unix operating systems.

In June of 2025, I was suddenly laid off. I'm still jobless in my seventh month of trying to find work.

I'll be completely honest, I don't know why I can't find a role, I'm either over- or under-qualified, I either give too much detail or not enough, I don't tell it like a story or I tell it too much like it's a story.

The people I used to work with have been shocked when I tell them I can't find work. One of them even said:

"you have such a great mix of talents that I wish more engineers had, and I still cite you as an example of the type of people I want to work with"

If you know of any leads in the SRE, DevEx, DevOps, InfoSec, or anything of the sort, I'm still searching as hard as I can.

Remote, I'm in Southern California.

My profile on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattcookedavis

For direct help, please buy my music:

https://craque.bandcamp.com

#sre #FediHire

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Gabriele Svelto
Gabriele Svelto
@gabrielesvelto@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@dtauvdiodr we have quite a few remote positions open, some are specifically SRE such as this one: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/position/gh/7500446/

Mozilla

Mozilla Careers — Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure — Open Positions

Mozilla is hiring a Senior Engineering Manager, Infrastructure in Remote US, Security, Security, Security, Firefox, Finance, Security, Security, Marketing, Firefox,…
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@dtauvdiodr@c.im replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@gabrielesvelto Thank you! I'll have a look!

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Drew Pickard
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@drewpickard@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@dtauvdiodr
if it makes you feel any better, 25 years of experience as a designer . . . took 12+ months to land a job

The market is BAD.

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Travis F W
Travis F W
@travisfw@fosstodon.org replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@drewpickard @dtauvdiodr man all you hyper-qualified underemployed professionals are not good for my confidence. I've been searching for years, but my resume has always been a hard sell due to my work history being spotty and varied, to say the least.

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Drew Pickard
Drew Pickard
@drewpickard@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@travisfw @dtauvdiodr
It’s a tough market, my friend, and capitalism is uniformly cruel when it contracts.
I think some of the best options are to parlay skills into
- a different, insular specialized market
- freelance / contract work
- using your skills and network to make something that others find useful and will pay for (anythijg from art, goods, books, content, writing, software, etc)
- ???????
- small profit?

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