Linux/unix jobs

[doublehelix2]

Is there anyone who posts in this forum that actually works as asys admin with linux or unix? How did you start out and are there plenty of opportunities for you?

 

[.walls]

I work as an ESX / Wintel sysadmin with ~35 hosts and ~550 guests (we have about 300 more physical wintel boxes as well, but I mostly stay away from them). Not quite the same, but ESX uses RHEL 3 for it's service console, I get a fair bit of linux action.

BigRedShark is a sysadmin/sys engineer for an ISP and works with predominantly linux/unix, I believe.

 

[Dj_Jestar]

My current job involves a lot of linux stuff. Servers, workstations (including colleagues as well as mine) client platforms - servers, workstations and other assorted items (Kiosk machines etc.) but I'm a software developer so my primary focus is creating applications, not sysadmin (though I am seen as the 'guru' when it comes to linux.)

Old job involved sysadmin of 500+ "midrange" automated/batch scheduling servers.

 

[Una]

Not a systems admin per say because every week is different for me. I deal with windows, linux, bsd, solaris, aix/hpux/plan-9/IOS, embedded OS's.. just depends on whatever we are currently dealing with at the time. I specialise in linux boxes though because its the platform I feel the most happy with and understand the internals much better than other OS's. I said how I started out in the other thread, read that

 

[memyselfandi]

I am a sysadmin really, although that isn't my job title.

I deal mainly with HPUX, but some Linux, Solaris, AIX from time to time. I would say that there are a reasonable number of opportunities although the company I work for aren't that good at times for allowing you to follow them but ymmv.

I started by answering an ad in the local paper when I was looking for work after leaving university. I had not done a IT degree, (Astrophysics), and started as a trainee and worked up to a senior team member.