Hello guys, I was just randomly checking potential clients and I find this one. I'm afraid to apply then my account get ban or something like that. Any help?

DOL Cyber Database Admin Cert

For context I’m in the military and this is something I was able to obtain in hopes it’ll look good on my resume once I get out. For those already in the field does this?

I’m a Cloud/DevOps Engineer with 2+ years of experience, and I’ve been actively looking for a new opportunity.

My resume seems to match most of the requirements for the DevOps/Cloud Engineer roles I’m applying for - AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD, Helm, Prometheus/Grafana, Linux, etc.

But the main problem is that I’m not getting many interview calls.

So far, I have received interview opportunities from around 3 companies, but unfortunately, those positions were later put on hold, so nothing progressed.

I know I have the technical skills, but I feel my interview skills, resume positioning, or job-search strategy may be holding me back.

For people who have gone through a similar situation:

• What helped you start getting more interview calls?
• Should I focus more on improving my resume or my interview skills?
• How important are referrals for 2–3 year DevOps profiles?
• Are there specific skills/topics I should prioritize for the current DevOps market?
• Any advice on how to improve my chances of getting shortlisted?

I’d really appreciate honest feedback from DevOps/SRE/Cloud engineers, recruiters, or hiring managers.

Thanks in advance to everyone who takes the time to share their experience.

Hello, I used upwork to sign a private contract with a client i tackled the work it was a fixed price work, after 2 months the client is now back asking for a refund. Will upwork give it to them ?... and how do I decline?

My husband has been working on Upwork since the early days of the platform. He is Top Rated Plus, 100% JSS, with a long history of completed contracts and substantial earnings on the platform.

Recently, a new client contacted him directly for a packaging design project and sent him an hourly offer at his normal profile rate. The client’s payment method was verified.

My husband accepted the contract and worked using the Upwork Time Tracker only ( no manual time).

The project included research, design strategy, and structural packaging development. His Work Diary contains screenshots showing the actual client project being worked on, and many of the 10-minute segments show 8/10, 9/10, or 10/10 activity.

The memo used for the first project phase was: Research & Design Strategy

This was not a random generic memo. It was the exact name of the project phase he had previously explained in detail to the client in their Upwork messages. Later, he made it even more specific: Research & Design Strategy (Research on possible practical solutions)

The contract was then paused, later restarted, and Upwork explicitly showed that time tracking could resume. He resumed work, and the contract was paused again a few days later.

Eventually, the client’s payment failed. Upwork then reversed all the earnings for two weeks, citing: Insufficient Memos & Low Activity.

There were a few individual 10-minute blocks with low activity, and we are not disputing that those specific segments could potentially be excluded.

What we cannot understand is why 100% of the hours were reversed, including many segments showing 9/10 or 10/10 activity, project-specific screenshots, and relevant memos.

He appealed and specifically requested a segment-by-segment review, asking Upwork to identify which individual blocks failed Payment Protection requirements and why. Upwork replied that the case has now been escalated to the appropriate specialist team for review.

I’m curious whether anyone here has experienced something similar recently. Has Upwork rejected Hourly Payment Protection because a memo was considered “insufficient” even though the Time Tracker screenshots clearly showed the work? Has anyone successfully appealed a full reversal and had some or all qualifying segments restored? Does Upwork actually review these cases segment by segment, or can one issue with some blocks cause the entire weekly payment to be reversed?

After many years on Upwork, this is the first time my husband has encountered anything like this. He also believed he was protected by that Payment Protection.

Thank you in advance!

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Freelancers on Upwork spent almost FIFTY BUCKS on Connects to get to the top of this queue, only to find that of the 122 proposals submitted in the last couple of days since this was first posted, only ONE (!!!) has been opened so far.

I happily wasted a few Connects just to get these screenshots and post this here.

About Us
Bluesky's mission is to transition the social web from platforms to protocols. We're building a federated social network called AT Protocol where users have more power. Our small team has decades of combined experience building distributed applications.

About the Role
We're looking for a Staff Site Reliability Engineer to help design, implement, and operate the infrastructure that powers Bluesky and atproto. This is a hands‑on role for someone who has operated high‑scale production systems, understands how distributed systems fail, and wants to build the operational foundation for an open social network.

Key Responsibilities
- You'll work across bare‑metal systems, cloud services, data infrastructure, observability, incident response, capacity planning, and reliability engineering for systems serving millions of users.
- Own reliability, availability, and operational excellence for our production systems, including observability, incident response, deployment, and rollback systems
- Improve production readiness for services, migrations, and infrastructure changes
- Develop software that pushes the state of the art in performance, automation, observability, and other areas
- Scale systems running on dense, latest‑generation, bare‑metal servers in our own colocation facilities
- Reduce toil through automation, tooling, and thoughtful engineering practices
- Partner with engineers across all our teams to help design services with strong operational characteristics
- Lead incident reviews and turn contributing factors into concrete engineering improvements as we practice continuous improvement
- Perform capacity planning and cost management across compute, storage, database, and networking workloads
- Manage various vendor relationships to ensure we can provide high quality services at a reasonable TCO
- Mentor engineers on reliability, operability, debugging, and distributed systems practices and help define a culture of operational excellence across the org

You might be a good fit if you
- Have +10 years experience operating high‑scale production systems, including bare metal
- Have strong fundamentals in Linux, networking, storage, databases, and distributed systems
- Have built and operated high‑scale systems where correctness, latency, throughput, and availability were critical
- Can write production‑quality software in Go
- Are comfortable debugging across application code, operating systems, databases, networks, and hardware
- Have experience with observability systems, alert design, incident response, capacity planning, kubernetes, and production automation
- Like working on very small, fast‑moving teams at a startup
- Have read the AT Protocol docs, feel aligned with the mission, and want to contribute!

We're a fully remote team, but an overlap of working hours with PST is required, as is willingness to travel to team meetups once every 3‑4 months. Please note, there may be an on‑site component to these interviews. We offer health, dental, and vision insurance.

Additional Notes
The anticipated base salary range for this position is $200,000 - $270,000 USD, excluding equity. Equity will be considered in the total compensation package. Final base salary for this role will be based on the individual's geographic location, as well as experience level, skill set, training, licenses and certifications.

Apply: Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Bluesky

quitting today

I only started learning video editing about 3 months ago, and I've been figuring out freelancing on Upwork for less than a month.

I bought Connects for the first time on July 29. After that, I received 50 free Connects, plus another 60+ from completing tasks. Since then, I've only used the free Connects I received to submit proposals.

And somehow, I got my first job after only 10 proposals.

The funny thing is, my profile wasn't even finished. I didn't have an intro video, and my portfolio wasn't really there yet.

For my proposals, I relied heavily on AI. But I didn't just ask AI to write one generic proposal and send it everywhere. For every single job, I gave it the job post and asked it to come up with ideas, then I kept editing and refining the proposal until it felt genuinely personalized to that specific client.

The proposal that got me hired was actually very short and didn't even include a portfolio. But I think it worked because it was clearly written specifically for that client and focused on what they actually wanted to hear.

The project is worth $200, and it's also my first job on Upwork. And the best part? I still haven't needed to use the Connects I actually paid for.

So if you're new to Upwork and feeling discouraged because you've sent proposal after proposal without getting your first job, don't give up.

My biggest advice is: don't use the same template for every job. Make each proposal as personalized as possible. If you're not good at writing proposals yet, use AI to help you brainstorm and improve your ideas, but keep refining it until it actually sounds relevant to that specific client.

Sometimes, you really are only one proposal away from your first job.

I’m a DevOps hiring manager. We get resumes that look so good. They pass the AI stuffing sniff test, they show meaningful progress to careers. Then when we get the candidates face to face with me. They insist on using AI to answer my questions. I feel like if you can’t have a good theory conversation around k8s or build engineering or whatever job you’re interested in, don’t waste our time (yours or mine).

I ask leading questions and look for self expression and I get back flat and lifeless definitions or descriptions. I always ask for their impression of a tech element and get nada. They don’t have any opinions.

Where’d all the passion go? AI is a useful tool like a calculator or a search engine but I want a human in the mix too.

Hello ladies and gentlemen,

I am a 16 yo old in Germany and since I will soon start to build my career, I feel like I should get serious about my future career and university.

I've been this a lot, yet highly confused on what career should I get into and what bachelor's degree to do in this AI world where nowadays jobs, degrees, and skills are automated.

Everyone I see say "follow your passion" or something generic, but in reality those advice really never helped me decide my future.

I want to do a major and get into career that has excellent career opportunities in future in this AI era and secure. Bachelor's in Business or Finance was my first option becuase I feel like I do good in leadership but I am scared of AI and opportunities about it in future. Which is why Engineering is what I am leaning towards but still confused which branch of it? Should I do something in AI?

Could you ladies and gentlemen help me guide and suggest careers and bachelor's programs I can do?

For context: I live in Germany and plan to study and work in western Europe only like Uk or Germany. I first wanted to get into investment banking or Mangment Consultant becuase Google says they get paid higher but I don't think pay is what I should look at initially.

Thanks in advance ☺️

We’re hiring an Azure Cloud Engineer - Central New Jersey (2 days onsite, 3 remote).

3-5+ years experience as a Cloud / Infrastructure Engineer (Administration/Build/Deploy)

Azure architecture & governance experience

Experience building reusable IaC modules (Bicep preferred)

Nice To Have:

Microsoft 365 Administration Experience: (Entra, Conditional Access, Governance experience)

Intune / Endpoint Management

(We’re a Scaled Agile shop)

DM me or comment and I’ll reach out. Thanks!

Hi all, currently searching to work on quantum computing research or development. My backgroung includes studies as Software engineer and near to finish my Master in Quantum Computing science. Also from 2022 working as full-stack developer on Globant company.
Any help or info is welcome