Well, in my opinion a sysadmin does not need to be a master of every
single piece of technology but he(she) must understand the concept and
have a vision of the whole.
- OS (Unix, Windows)
- Security
- Hardware
- Networking
- Webserver / Email server
- Application Server
- Programming (but scripts is a must for *nix world)
- Databases
And must important, patience and will to learn always helps !
David Filion escreveu:
You may want to add SMTP to the list (Sendmail, Postfix, antispam).
David
Jean-Francois Theroux wrote:
I forgot firewalls and VPN.
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Jean-Francois Theroux <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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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
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