[AusNOG] Off Topic - Brisbane recruitment recommendations

[Skeeve Stevens]

Cross-Platform is massively important.

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.

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.


...Skeeve

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On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:13 PM, Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org>
wrote:

> On 13 May 2016, at 7:02 PM, Chad Kelly <chad at cpkws.com.au> wrote:
>
> On 5/12/2016 10:07 AM, ausnog-request at lists.ausnog.net wrote:
>
> 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
>
> But these are all different skills.
>
>
> How many skills do you have? More than one?
>
> Your not going to find an individual with skills in every single platform
> and every single operating system as they are all slightly different.
>
>
> This is a consequence of mismanagement in the IT industry. It's a growing
> problem.
>
> 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.
>
> Even the newer Cloud platforms such as AWS and Google Compute vary
> slightly with what they can do and how they opperate.
>
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> You are better off building teams and having people with specific skill
> sets working on particular projects.
>
>
> 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.
>
> If you want to get ahead long-term in IT, be a generalist.
>
>    - mark
>
>
>
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