I am looking for just such a person now. Good Juniper, some Cisco and Sysadmin experience with an ISP background..
I expect it will be immensely difficult to find somebody. What makes it even more frustrating is that just such a person was not all that long ago made redundant! So if anybody is looking for something to do around London... -- Leigh > -----Original Message----- > From: randal k [mailto:na...@data102.com] > Sent: 01 December 2011 15:19 > To: Bill Stewart > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice. > > This is a huge point. We've had a LOT of trouble finding good network > engineers who have all of the previously mentioned "soft" attributes - > attitude, team player, can write, can speak, can run a small project - > and > are more than just Cisco pimps. I cannot explain how frustrating it is > to > meet a newly minted CCNP who has zero Linux experience, can't script > anything, can't setup a syslog server, doesn't understand AD much less > LDAP, etc. Imagine, an employee who can help themselves 90% of the time > ... > > Finding the diamond that has strong niche skill, networking, with a > broad & > just-deep-enough sysadmin background has been very, very hard. I cannot > emphasize enough the importance of cross-training. Immensely valuable. > > Randal > > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Bill Stewart <nonobvi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > And yeah, sometimes it means that you need to go > > learn technologies like Active Directory > > > [snip] > > > > > In addition to learning scripting languages > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud > service. > For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com > ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com ______________________________________________________________________
