From this week I started working for SUNET as a public interest technologist. We are under Vetenskapsrådet, this also means from now on I am a central government employee in Sweden.

I will be helping out various in open source projects and services provided SUNET, focusing on privacy and security. I will also continue working on all of the upstream projects I maintain, including SecureDrop.

We (at Freedom of the Press Foundation) are looking for an Associate Site Reliability Engineer.

This position is open to junior and entry-level applicants, and we recognize the need to provide on-the-job mentoring and support to help you familiarize yourself with the technology stack we use. In addition to the possibility of working in our New York or San Francisco offices, this position is open to remote work within American time zones.

Skills and Experience

• Familiarity with remote systems administration of bare-metal or virtualized Linux servers.
• Comfortable with shell and programming languages commonly used in an SRE context (e.g., Python, Go, Bash, Ruby).
• Strong interest in honing skills required to empower a distributed software development and operations team through automation and systems maintenance.

For more details, please visit the job posting.

Are you thinking if you should apply or not?

YES, APPLY!. You are ready to apply for this position. You don’t have to ask anyone to confirm if you are ready or not. Unless you apply, you don’t have a chance to get the job.

So, the first step is to apply for the position, and then you can think about Impostor syndrome. We all have it. Some people will admit that in public, some people will not.