I think you're more likely to find a network engineer with (possibly limited) programming skills.
That's certainly where I would categorize myself. Owen On Feb 27, 2012, at 12:02 PM, Brandt, Ralph wrote: > Generalists are hard to come by these days. They are people who learn > less and less about more and more till they know nothing about > everything. People today are specializing in the left and right halves > of the bytes.... They learn more and more about less and less till they > know everything about nothing. And BTW, they are worthless unless you > have five of them working on a problem because none of them know enough > to fix it. Worse, you can replace the word five with fifty and it may > be still true. > > I know of three of these, all gainfully employed at this time and could > each find at least a couple jobs if they wanted. I am one, my son is > two and a guy we worked with is the third. > > At one time (40 years ago) the mantra in IS was train for expertise, now > it is hire for it. Somewhere there has to be a happy medium. I suggest > this, find a good coder, not a mediocre who writes shit code but a good > one who can think and learn and when you talk about branching out with > his skill set he or she lights up. His first thing on site is take the > A+ networking course. > > No, I do not sell the courses. But I have seen this kind of approach > work when nothing else was. > > > > > Ralph Brandt > Communications Engineer > HP Enterprise Services > Telephone +1 717.506.0802 > FAX +1 717.506.4358 > Email ralph.bra...@pateam.com > 5095 Ritter Rd > Mechanicsburg PA 17055 > > -----Original Message----- > From: A. Pishdadi [mailto:apishd...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 8:27 PM > To: NANOG > Subject: Programmers with network engineering skills > > Hello All, > > i have been looking for quite some time now a descent coder (c,php) who > has > a descent amount of system admin / netadmin experience. Doesn't > necessarily > need to be an expert at network engineering but being acclimated in > understanding the basic fundamentals of networking. Understanding basic > routing concepts, how to diagnose using tcpdump / pcap, understanding > subnetting and how bgp works (not necessarily setting up bgp). I've > posted > job listings on the likes of dice and monster and have not found any > good > canidates, most of them ASP / Java guys. > > If anyone can point me to a site they might recommend for job postings > or > know of any consulting firms that might provide these services that > would > be greatly appreciated.
