Linux is often used for infrastructure services such as web, authentication, dns, etc. Having experience with Apache, OpenLDAP, MySQL and Bind is a minimum these days. Being able to script is essential too. Shell, Python, Perl are the popular ones. I personally prefer Python these days.
You also need to have some networking knowledge. I'm not talking about configuring BGP here, but you gotta be able to configure switches, routers, probably load-balancers. Understanding routing is essential to improve your debugging. Virtualization is another sphere in high demand. VMware, XEN and OpenVZ are popular. To become a sysadmin, you need to put in the hours. You gotta be ready to keep learning during your entire career. Until you get a job that allows you to better your skills during workhours, you will have to do that at home. -jf On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 12:03 PM, David Montminy <[email protected]>wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Pascal Charest wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd say that this somebody isn't very aware of what is popular in > > Quebec. The GNU/Linux community in Montreal is very strong and there is > > really no lack of contract. Either Ubuntu or Redhat trained > > professionnal (or self-taught) are getting a lot of interesting offer. > > Hiring is kinda hard in this domain... > > > > Not to sound pessimistic but this is not the impression that I got. I've > been looking for a job for the last 6 months and I don't see a lot of > offers. Add to that the fact that everyone seems to ask for 5+ years of > experience...in everything. Even in technologies such as Adobe Flex > (which came out in march 2004) > > As a general advice, I would says that Red Hat seems to be the > distribution of choise, with Suse a distant second. Database skills are > also a plus (something I don't have and get turned down becasue of it). > And remember that to get the job, you don't need to be a good candidate, > you need to be the best one among the ones they interviewed. > > Of course, knowing the right people also helps. I don't have > connections, and my only real source of job offers are the billboards. > > Good luck! > > David Montminy > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iEYEARECAAYFAkmQYbgACgkQvDxX1LVv8bMEZwCdFL45q/CqxPwZ4aSqILcM2/Ok > McYAoJpqLh5YT2unHmXatvHmGCqTPmFU > =HU40 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > -- Jean-François Théroux Linux/network security consultant http://www.theroux.ca
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