Hi everyone, I'm sending this mail to apply as a Junior DevOps. My application is sponsored by Christian Heusel (gromit) and Kristian Klausen (klausenbusk / wCPO). My name is Robin Candau, also known as "Antiz". I'm a 29-year-old French guy passionate about music, cycling and IT / nerdy stuff. I'm an open source enthusiast. I've been using Linux for over a decade, and Arch Linux specifically for the past 5 years. I joined the Arch Linux staff in early 2023 as a ~~Trusted User~~ Package Maintainer and I've been contributing to multiple other parts of the Arch project since then; including Reproducible Builds, the Arch Wiki, WSL image maintenance, Testing Team coordination, AUR moderation, various tools & projects (e.g. pacman-contrib, devtools / pkgctl, archlinux-contrib, ...), infrastructure, submitting RFCs, Mediator, event organization, and so on... Generally speaking, I'm always up to help wherever I can (and hopefully learn something in the process). Outside of Arch Linux, I work as a Linux System & DevOps Engineer as my day job. I'm therefore using some of the stack that the DevOps team relies on to maintain the Arch Linux infrastructure on a daily basis. For the rest, I've got a strong desire to learn and I consider myself a fast learner. My past and present contributions regarding the Arch Infrastructure include: - Setting up a mirror via Fastly's CDN service [1] - Working on bumpbuddy (a daemon watching for new upstream releases for our packages) [2] [3], including maintaining its dedicated server (back when it was still a PoC) and writing the Ansible role to deploy it on the Arch Linux infrastructure [4] - Various other occasional contributions [5] to fix or improve things here and there As a Junior DevOps, I'd be interested in: - Maintaining the bumpbuddy box & associated services - Continue working on the ongoing Fastly experiments - Helping with any common, frequent or redundant tasks that would benefit from getting an additional pair of hands to work on (creating gitlab accounts, updating servers, etc...) Of course, I’m happy to jump in and help wherever else I can though! :) Thanks for reading my application! [1] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/issues/639 [2] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/bumpbuddy [3] https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.or... [4] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/merge_requests/963 [5] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/merge_requests/?sort... -- Regards, Robin Candau / Antiz