What they will get for $100/hour is a highly skilled, experienced, hard-working, and deeply corrupt freelance sysadmin who will take them for almost as much as the ransomware mob did.
The people running this casino don't seem all that bright. Unless that ad was a joke, in which case I guess I shouldn't be talking...
It's from a job posting that circulated last week:
Job Description
Arganteal seeks an onsite Red Hat Linux System Admin "RHEL SysAdmin" in Las Vegas, Nevada for immediate work starting 9-21-2023. This role will be helping the MGM Grand Casino to build its net new IT environment after the recent ransomware hack.
Candidates must be willing to work everyday until the new IT environment is fully stood up.
We are open to people who will only work a grand total of 7 days!
Expected Dates of Service 9-21-2023 through 10-15-2023
Hourly Rate: $100.00 per on 1099
Location: Onsite at MGM HQ in Las Vegas (absolutely no remote work)
Visa Status: Must be US Citizen (no Green Cards or H1b visa candidates will be accepted)
Working Hours: Expect to work 10 hours per day 7 days a week
> Expected Dates of Service 9-21-2023 through 10-15-2023 ... Hourly Rate: $100.00 per on 1099
That's a contract worker? So what's gonna happen is this poor soul is going to build out some hacked-together junk as quickly as possible, get replaced, and the replacements will have no idea how anything works. Some time down the line, a server isn't going to get a critical update because nobody even knows it exists, and this will all repeat again once the hackers find it. :)
I thought maybe it was some regulatory/gaming license sorta deal. But I'm looking at job listings for things like working on casino ATMs, repairing slot machines, and even a job listing for Revenue Auditor where the job description covers auditing slot machine drops, annual casino revenue, etc. None of these have US Citizen as a requirement. Seems very suspect, honestly. But I dunno how these things work on casinos.
