As a senior systems administrator? I'm surprised you're senior at all if you don't have any programming skills. You can't tell how the system works if you've ne

As a senior systems administrator? I'm surprised you're senior at all if you don't have any programming skills. You can't tell how the system works if you've never written a program that interacts with OS. Moreover, operatios is a field with still much, much to do; I often find myself writing missing stuff (I'm a sysadmin myself). Funny enough, being sysadmin I'm not seen as a programmer, so I'm not tied to any technology my employer is attached to and I can use any programming language I find appropriate (Python, Perl, Ruby, Erlang, C, you name it). A freedom that is rarely found among regular programmers.