There was also a mention of Tomcat, which is dangerous enough in the hands of full-time programmers, as I can relate all too well. And the inclusion of the word "design".
I know an extremely competent and very experienced SENIOR sysadmin who would be reluctant to take on some of the requirements listed. When I wear my sysadmin hat, I managed to limp along with python, perl and bash scripts - I leave PHP and Ruby for applications. This week, I'm wearing my DBA hat, though. 130-million row database tables to prep, tune, and join. At least they didn't demand SQL skills, too. Tim On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 15:36 -0400, Alex Kaplan wrote: > My guess is that the reason they are asking for ruby/python skills is > that the company might not even have any physical servers and they > follow the DevOps mentality: > > Everything must be coded, testable and repeatable. > > So for example: > > The sysadmin never SSH into any particular server, the management of > servers is done thru Ruby using Chef > http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Just+Enough+Ruby+for+Chef or > Puppet and such. > > Their servers are running in Amazon AWS. It has a decent GUI interface > to provision/decomition servers, etc, but they could be scripting all > that management using Ruby and Fog http://fog.io/1.4.0/index.html > > In those cases, knowing Ruby, Python, Perl, PHP makes sense because > DevOps is where the industry is going. As an anecdote, Microsoft Azure > cloud has on average 1 sysadmin per 15000 physical servers. > > However the job listing also mentions that knowing HTML/CSS/JavaScript > is a plus. That is kind a peculiar. Their main website is > PHP/HTML/CSS/JavaScript, however why would you let a "junior" system > administrator hack on CSS/JavaScript is beyond me. > > Just as being a competent DevOp takes great skills and effort, being a > good CSS/JavaScript developer takes skills and effort (imagine having > to create a website that still supports IE6, mobile clients and people > with JavaScript disable). > > And having those two skills together is definitely not an entry level, > junior position. > > Cheers, > > Alex > > On Monday, July 16, 2012, Tim Holloway <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 14:57 -0400, Shayne Hardesty wrote: > >> A company I used to work for is looking for a entry-to-mid level > Linux > >> systems administrator in the Jacksonville area. NOTE: please do > not send > >> resumes to me or send questions about the position. I am merely > sharing > >> this on their behalf. If interested please apply via the posting: > >> > >> > http://jobview.monster.com/Linux-Systems-Administrator-Job-Jacksonville-FL-112271965.aspx > >> > >> Shayne > > > > Ah yes, another sysadmin position that requires professional-grade > > programmer skills. > > > > I'm going to go off and cry now. > > > > Tim > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > > RSS Feed > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > > Unsubscribe [email protected] > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
