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What are better skills to have:
RedHat, Puppet, and Jenkins
Or
Ubuntu, AWS and Apache
RedHat, Puppet, and Jenkins
Or
Ubuntu, AWS and Apache
What are hotter skills in the market?
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OK. To add context, I have two roles on offer to me as a junior engineer. One with the first set of tech and the second with the other.
Which will enable me to improve my career moving forward.
Which will enable me to improve my career moving forward.
I guess I don't have a career path at the moment. I just want to get in to a role which will expose me to Linux on a full time basis.
I'm looking obviously to make the most money and get as high up the chain as I can as quickly as I can.
I'm 35 now and need to set a very aggressive pace before I hit 40. I wasted too much time in one job doing tech support for 8.5 years so now I am on a catch up job.
In relation to original question, I am looking at it from the perspective of me in say 2-3 years looking for a new role with a higher salary.
Which set of skills (1 or 2) will further enable me to do that do you think?
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What I have noticed about my peers in the industry is that they have ALL the skills which they accumulate throughout their careers. They move on every 2-3 years and like a snowball pick up new skills as they go. So if you look at their CV's they have got it all (relatively speaking)
I'm looking obviously to make the most money and get as high up the chain as I can as quickly as I can.
I'm 35 now and need to set a very aggressive pace before I hit 40. I wasted too much time in one job doing tech support for 8.5 years so now I am on a catch up job.
In relation to original question, I am looking at it from the perspective of me in say 2-3 years looking for a new role with a higher salary.
Which set of skills (1 or 2) will further enable me to do that do you think?
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What I have noticed about my peers in the industry is that they have ALL the skills which they accumulate throughout their careers. They move on every 2-3 years and like a snowball pick up new skills as they go. So if you look at their CV's they have got it all (relatively speaking)
Had my technical interview with job two today (Apache AWS). They have around 20 servers. The job is going to be pure, AWS and Apache configuration.
I think they have plans to optimise the architecture of the platform but it wont be great depth in terms of Linux. They said it would be patching the servers and basically hardening Apache security.
a lot of AWS. All the plans they have is utilising more of AWS's services.
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The other role with the museum is 90 servers, running Red Hat and Puppet configuration.
I think there will be a lot more technical depth in this one. I will be dealing with Jenkins as well as Hadoop (I think he said). They use KVM for virtualisation. They also have a huge storage system. On the job spec it does say I will be not only working with the Devops engineer but also working with the storage manager.
Projects in this job is upgrading Red Hat from 6 to 7 and upgrading Puppet to latest version.
They also stressed my scripting skills which I think is a good sign as the big money is in scripting.
I have to go with my brain on this one and probably go with the more boring role out of the two.
The first one was fun and hip and full of women. I saw Dom Jolly walk out the building for example. But the role has no training budget and I don't think has the technical depth I'm looking for.
It's a pure web hosting role.
I think they have plans to optimise the architecture of the platform but it wont be great depth in terms of Linux. They said it would be patching the servers and basically hardening Apache security.
a lot of AWS. All the plans they have is utilising more of AWS's services.
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The other role with the museum is 90 servers, running Red Hat and Puppet configuration.
I think there will be a lot more technical depth in this one. I will be dealing with Jenkins as well as Hadoop (I think he said). They use KVM for virtualisation. They also have a huge storage system. On the job spec it does say I will be not only working with the Devops engineer but also working with the storage manager.
Projects in this job is upgrading Red Hat from 6 to 7 and upgrading Puppet to latest version.
They also stressed my scripting skills which I think is a good sign as the big money is in scripting.
I have to go with my brain on this one and probably go with the more boring role out of the two.
The first one was fun and hip and full of women. I saw Dom Jolly walk out the building for example. But the role has no training budget and I don't think has the technical depth I'm looking for.
It's a pure web hosting role.
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I do believe am going to go with the Red Hat / Puppet role. Much greater technical depth, which I believe will lead to longer term career progress.