The reason why my idea is just an idea and yours is a business is yours is a lot more realistic, but I'm happy to hear that something like it exists. I had lost hope that I could find real challenges in my work but now I see that I must look harder.
It is not even hard to find these things, especially if you have some contacts; we definitely cannot handle the work and it's visibly accelerating. There are so many systems where the original team is no longer there and everything 'runs'; especially with VPSs, ec2, docker, kubernetes etc, things are just running blackboxes and when there are changes that don't automatically work and break things, no-one has a clue what to do. A lot of bitrot as well; we had a client who use codeigniter ancient version in 500+ internal and external applications running on ancient php (not supported) etc and with IT demanding updates to the infra, things started failing fast ; a lot of these systems were manually installed on servers that are basically forgotten until something goes down. There are 100s of 1000s of companies in the world that have situations like this and I cannot even attempt to estimate the costs of downtime, hacks, 'must rewrite' new consultants coming in, 'must rewrite' resume driven new employees etc.
We are looking yes, but you have to like screwing around with a lot of tech; from Clipper to C# and from Cobol to k. We are overloaded but we try to get full utility for all people on what we like.
Any chance I could be contacted too please? username at gmail.
I used to find my niche in contracting for banks always actively seeking the opposite of “greenfield” projects (usually to the utter surprise of recruitment agents) but this market has not been the same in the UK recently.
