<div dir="ltr">Cross-Platform is massively important.<div><br></div><div>I don't hire a network engineer now unless he has Cisco, Juniper, Linux skills and preferably has exposure to Ansible, Chef or Puppet. A programming language like Python or Ruby is also nice, and if they don't have it, need to plan to. They should also be well rounded in desktops and other related tech.</div><div><br></div><div>In Cloud, I recommend to clients that their senior IT people have experience in at least 2 cloud providers, mostly AWS/Azure... because a lot of companies are deploying hybrid environments and you should know how cloud providers work in general. And if they know AWS/Azure, I'd expect them to have at least played with Google Compute, vCloudAir and other common providers who pop up. It is an engineer's job to know what else is out there, if something comes along that is better, cheaper, faster, etc... and it is an employers/manages job to make sure the staff have some funds/resources to play with things that are coming out.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br>...Skeeve</div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div><b style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri">Skeeve Stevens - Founder & The Architect</b><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px"> - eintellego Networks Pty Ltd</span></div><div><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri">Email: </span><a href="mailto:skeeve@eintellegonetworks.com" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px" target="_blank">skeeve@eintellegonetworks.com</a><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px"> ; Web: </span><a href="http://eintellegonetworks.com/" style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px" target="_blank">eintellegonetworks.com</a></div><div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri;font-size:13px;margin:0px">Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; S<a>kype: skeeve ; </a>LinkedIn: <a href="http://linkedin.com/in/skeeve" target="_blank">/in/skeeve</a> ; Expert360: <a href="https://expert360.com/profile/d54a9" target="_blank">Profile</a> ; Keybase: <a href="https://keybase.io/skeeve" target="_blank">https://keybase.io/skeeve</a></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Mark Newton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:newton@atdot.dotat.org" target="_blank">newton@atdot.dotat.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div></div><div>On 13 May 2016, at 7:02 PM, Chad Kelly <<a href="mailto:chad@cpkws.com.au" target="_blank">chad@cpkws.com.au</a>> wrote:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<div>On 5/12/2016 10:07 AM,
<a href="mailto:ausnog-request@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog-request@lists.ausnog.net</a> wrote:<br>
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<pre>Most people are having trouble at the moment.
It is an interesting time that I've spoken about at Commsday events,
talking about the void of skills in certain areas:
- Cloud specialisation and experience (AWS, Azure, Google Compute)
- DevOps skills - Ansible, Puppet, Chef - with deployment experience
- Network (Cisco/Juniper/etc) + Linux + NetDevOps experience
- Anyone with actual experience on SDN
- IoT infrastructure experience - even using the AWS/Azure tools
- Languages like Golang</pre>
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But these are all different skills. <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>How many skills do you have? More than one?<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>
Your not going to find an individual with skills in every single
platform and every single operating system as they are all slightly
different. <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>This is a consequence of mismanagement in the IT industry. It's a growing problem.</div><div><br></div><div>It is my belief that quite a lot of the specialisation that exists now is a dead end. We actually need generalists in a Cloudy Cloud McCloudington world. People who understand concepts across a broad swathe of many IT disciplines, and how they interrelate to each other; and with enough applied skill to attack any problem from that "first principles" understanding.</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
Even the newer Cloud platforms such as AWS and Google Compute vary
slightly with what they can do and how they opperate. <br></div></blockquote><div><br></div>They all use the same concepts. A generalist can write you an API server front-end which can drive the provisioning pipelines on both of them via the same client-facing API, and write monitoring plugins to import performance metrics from both of them into the same Prometheus instance.</div><div><br></div><div>A specialist will say, "I'm really good at AWS," but doom you to maintaining two incompatible OAM systems if you ever decide to put some of your workloads in GCP.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>
You are better off building teams and having people with specific
skill sets working on particular projects. <br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>People who believed that statement in the 1990s spent tens of thousands of dollars on Novell or Windows for Workgroups vendor certifications, then went into full revolt when Windows NT came along and their "specific skill sets" we're suddenly obsolete.</div><div><br></div><div>If you want to get ahead long-term in IT, be a generalist.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div> - mark</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></font></span></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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