Advice on becoming a sysadmin: A talk for my former self
Linux Sysadmin Careers
Paul English
Paul is CEO of PreOS Security Inc and is a board member for the League of Professional System Administrator, a nonprofit professional association for the advancement of the practice of system administration from 2015 through 2017. Paul has a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute obtained in 1998. He has been a UNIX & Linux system administrator and wearer of many other IT hats since 1996. More recently he has managed a few sysadmins while still racking the occasional server. In 2016, Paul ventured into a firmware security startup to help sysadmins keep their systems safe from new threats.
Alternate titles: * Career advice for the aspiring Linux sysadmin today or myself 10 years ago * "So you want to be a sysadmin?"
"It’s Difficult to Make Predictions, Especially About the Future" - So is Attribution
Being a sysadmin is a career path which can be fun, lucrative and one of the best ways to get paid to work with and on open source software. In this presentation I share some of the mistakes I made so you don't need to repeat them. Why not make new and interesting mistakes?
It is a confusing time to enter this field. Why not be a DevOps instead of a Sysadmin? What is this Site Reliability Engineer thing? What if the whole world goes NoOps? Do I really have to carry a pager? I'll provide some answers, hints and raw speculation.
About the Presenter: Paul English is President of the Seattle Area System Administrator's Guild, Board Member for the League of Professional System Administrators, and multi-year organizer of the Cascadia IT Conference. Paul also works as a system administrator and manager at Vaisala Inc, creating weather forecasts for wind, solar and hydro power.
- Date:
- 2015 October 23 - 14:00
- Duration:
- 50 min
- Room:
- Room 3184
- Conference:
- SeaGL 2015
- Language:
- Track:
- Difficulty:
- Easy
- Exhibitor Hall Day One
- Start Time:
- 2015 October 23 09:00
- Room:
- Room 1110
- You Should Speak
- Start Time:
- 2015 October 23 14:00
- Room:
- Room 3183
- SAFE: An Internet for Privacy, Security and Freedom
- Start Time:
- 2015 October 23 14:00
- Room:
- Room 3178
- Access Without Empowerment
- Start Time:
- 2015 October 23 14:00
- Room:
- Room 3179