Ask HN: Where should I advertise to find a great DevOps person?

6 points by redguava ↗ HN
Just wondering if anyone has any tips for a good place to advertise to find a DevOps person.

I prefer to find industry specific job boards if possible.

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It may be harder to find DevOps industry specific (unless you're say in the financial/energy sectors/health care sectors which have specific operational requirements. (eg: security, etc).

Look at Stackoverflow careers, and specifically contributors in the "Server Fault", "Super user", and "Unix/Linux" sections.

Linux boards on google groups and local Linux meetups.

We found a great DevOps guy from Stackoverflow.
I'd suggest craigslist.org. One major pet peeve is BS in job postings. Don't ask for 5+ years with a technology that has been around for 3 ;)
Email sajobs@lists.lopsa.org

LOPSA is a professional association by and for system administrators.

I've been thinking of switching from being a software engineer to DevOps, would this be a good association in doing that?

While I enjoy coding, I've found that most really challenging backend positions are few & far between. DevOp's seems like a guarantee of finding more challenging work experience.