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Hi guys - looking for some advice, imagine you had these 3 potential roads for your future:
1. Work for an established and secure telecomms company on products such as VoIP, Linux, Java, MySQL, PHP, Perl and C# with a VERY minor amount of infrastructure and virtualisation responsibility (no SAN's or disk arrays and not touching Windows Server much or SQL)
2. Work for a small (50 people! good contracts / clients though) ECRM company solely managing 40 servers in a Data Center (new business so growing) with primary responsibility for: SQL Server (2005 // 2008 R2 etc), Disk Arrays (ISCSI // Direct Attach), Dell servers (1950 // 2950 // R910's etc), Windows Server (2003 // 2008) and clustered solutions, Linux servers (MySQL, Apache, PHP - LAMP).
3. Work for a brand new Data Center with prime responsibility (with help from 2 other people, but I have most experience in OS & hardware) for ALL managed services & infrastructure // redundancy (R910's, Disk Arrays, R710's, CISCO, Monitoring, Linux, MySQL, Windows Server Clustered // Non-clustered, VMware, LTO backup, XenServer with pools, XenApp, XenDesktop) and going to potential clients discussing with them there current service and building them a solution, delivering it (kind of like technical architect I guess with the techie deployment as well, hands on)
What do you think?
Security of job is one major and 3 is the newest, Data Centre right now is about a quarter full, 2 is small company but doing well at the moment and 1 is the most stable and successful, but I'm not sure about the future proofing of my career going down the coding route.
I want to pick the one that will get me the best CV, with stability at least for 3-5 years or so and future proof my skills.
Thanks chaps
1. Work for an established and secure telecomms company on products such as VoIP, Linux, Java, MySQL, PHP, Perl and C# with a VERY minor amount of infrastructure and virtualisation responsibility (no SAN's or disk arrays and not touching Windows Server much or SQL)
2. Work for a small (50 people! good contracts / clients though) ECRM company solely managing 40 servers in a Data Center (new business so growing) with primary responsibility for: SQL Server (2005 // 2008 R2 etc), Disk Arrays (ISCSI // Direct Attach), Dell servers (1950 // 2950 // R910's etc), Windows Server (2003 // 2008) and clustered solutions, Linux servers (MySQL, Apache, PHP - LAMP).
3. Work for a brand new Data Center with prime responsibility (with help from 2 other people, but I have most experience in OS & hardware) for ALL managed services & infrastructure // redundancy (R910's, Disk Arrays, R710's, CISCO, Monitoring, Linux, MySQL, Windows Server Clustered // Non-clustered, VMware, LTO backup, XenServer with pools, XenApp, XenDesktop) and going to potential clients discussing with them there current service and building them a solution, delivering it (kind of like technical architect I guess with the techie deployment as well, hands on)
What do you think?
Security of job is one major and 3 is the newest, Data Centre right now is about a quarter full, 2 is small company but doing well at the moment and 1 is the most stable and successful, but I'm not sure about the future proofing of my career going down the coding route.
I want to pick the one that will get me the best CV, with stability at least for 3-5 years or so and future proof my skills.
Thanks chaps