Jobs needing linux experiance - please bear with me on this...

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I Woke up this morning and had a phone call from an existing customer of mine. Now I do Windows and server and network support and this old dear from a small company realy P**sed me off. I want a career change but then relised with out a degree im mighty stuffed. SO HOW about moving away from small business and WINDOWS and going to large companies and using Linux. Always enjoyed playing around with desktop operating systems such as Fedora, Unbuntu etc.

But what qualifications would put me on a good spring board for this type of work.

Most job advertisments in the BATH area mention Redhat etc. Ive been on my prometric site but again its a mine field with many certs.

Any advicwe or thought would be appriciated. :)
 
So any recommendations on certifications or am I barking up the wrong tree.

I wanted to go to an employer with a good portfolio saying that I have multiple skills within the IT industry.
 
If you have your heart set on Linux.. Red Hat Certified Technician would be a good starting point I guess.

Otherwise stick with Wintel, get some Microsoft accreditations to validate your experience. Then have a look at 'addons'

VMware VCP4 (expensive because you need to do the course) or XenDesktop, XenApp, XenServer CCAs from Citrix.

Alternatively you could go down the networking route and start with something like Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA).

Whatever you do get an entry level postion in Enterprise IT and don't look back, strive to improve constantly and understand/learn everything in your environment. Even at a lower level it doesnt hurt to learn at home, install test labs, ask questions of the senior staff and show an interest. Get that all important thing experience!

Good luck, hope you make the move. I dislike small business IT, its an industry diluted by cowboys and teenagers.
 
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palmy said:
Good luck, hope you make the move. I dislike small business IT, its an industry diluted by cowboys and teenagers.
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Yeah, some moron who had the money for MCSE will beat you to the interview stage a lot of the time - despite the experience gap. Sigh...
 
I was talking to my boss about this today actually, I asked him what distro I should use in order to get a similar experience to redhat server and he says fedora as its redhats free version. Gonna set it up on esxi and migrate all my windows server stuff across (at home) as I find the best way to learn anything is to just use it, break it and fix it.
 
sr4470 said:
Yeah, some moron who had the money for MCSE will beat you to the interview stage a lot of the time - despite the experience gap. Sigh...
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Get an MCSE or catching up with 2009 an MCITP:Enterprise ;) then and then you can beat the moron with your experience and accreditations.
 
RHCT and then RHCE are the standard when it comes to Linux certification in my experience...

Not essential though, experience still counts for a lot with unix, mostly I suspect because it's fairly easy to work out someone's linux knowledge by just asking a couple of questions...
 
Sp00n said:
I was talking to my boss about this today actually, I asked him what distro I should use in order to get a similar experience to redhat server and he says fedora as its redhats free version.
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CentOS is probably the better bet - Fedora is the bleeding edge/desktop orientated variant AFAIK.
 
bigredshark said:
RHCT and then RHCE are the standard when it comes to Linux certification in my experience...

Not essential though, experience still counts for a lot with unix, mostly I suspect because it's fairly easy to work out someone's linux knowledge by just asking a couple of questions...
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Well that's me out, as I haven't managed to compile wireless drivers without a kernel error yet :p
 
daz said:
CentOS is probably the better bet - Fedora is the bleeding edge/desktop orientated variant AFAIK.
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This, CentOS is basically Redhat Enterprise Linux without the Redhat branding.

Certification wise ... there's the Redhat ones, RHCT and RHCE, and more vendor neutral ones like LPIC. I have the first level of LPIC (company put a group of us through it after a week long intensive course ... I found it pretty easy but I have been using Linux since the mid-90's) and I'll probably be doing RHCE next year if the company approve the costs.

Note with the RHCE though, don't assume that you can just do the RH300 fast track course with no previous knowledge and then sit the exam. That course is a revision course more than an actual training course and you will fail the exam at the end (I know several people who fell foul of that earlier this year)
 
sr4470 said:
Yeah, some moron who had the money for MCSE will beat you to the interview stage a lot of the time - despite the experience gap. Sigh...
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Nobody here has an MCSE - we've never placed a lot of value on paper qualifications when recruiting.
 
ruffneck said:
Lots do, IIS is very good these days.
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Not many by comparison, of boxes used as pure web servers, Linux outnumbers Windows by around 5 machines to 1 in our environment (we're a fairly big hosting provider). That's with around 5500 web servers presently.

That's not to say IIS isn't a lot better than it used to be, but it's difficult to see why you'd use it over apache unless you needed a specific feature - and the stats back that view up...
 
ASP.NET is the main reason we use Windows\IIS I don't know how proven it is on Linux/Apache Mono these days mind though.
 
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