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Alright, then, what should I be studying in my free time to qualify? I'm already hitting a career ceiling and a midlife crisis, this might really interest me.

you_should_die 2y ago
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globalnode 2y ago
Contact a recruiter and ask, maybe you could even get an apprenticeship / on the job training. I always thought the book "Code" by Charles Petzold was gold for new people to the industry.
- culopatin 2y ago
  Has a recruiter ever known anything about a job they list? 0 times in my life
hoofhearted 2y ago
Not in any particular order: Java, Spring Boot, Angular 1 & 2, React, CSS design tokens like Tailwind or Bootstrap, Oracle DB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS and AWS Gov Cloud, Amazon SQS, Kubernetes, Rancher, New Relic, GitHub and GitHub Actions, Service Now, Confluence, Jira, and so on. Study up and understand AGILE workflows, and a 2 week 10 business day sprint working cycles. Then tie that back into continuous integration/continuous deployments mentioned above. If you get a grasp of everything I mentioned above and build out your LinkedIn and resume with all of those skills, multiple recruiters will be in your inbox on a daily basis.
- dotancohen 2y ago
  Thank you, I've already got a portion of that under my belt. Getting to work now...
  - ninininino 2y ago
    Please don't take the parent too too seriously, they listed some fairly useful technologies that are widespread but some that are definitely more situationally needed/niche. I think they were speaking somewhat jokingly/ironically if you couldn't tell (listing 3 relational databases for example as if you need to have experience with all 3 rather than just _any_ relational database).
    - dotancohen 2y ago
      I've done work for places where both MySQL and PostgreSQL were used. In any case, I'm reasonably proficient with either. Thanks.
    - hoofhearted 2y ago
      I was not joking at all. I was 100% serious and listed technologies and skills that the U.S. government is actively recruiting for right now.
      - ninininino 2y ago
        In that case I think you perhaps overstated what is necessary to get a US government job. Or to get a software engineering job in general. I get paid GS-15 level as a civilian and I've never touched Oracle DB, Tailwind, Rancher, or some other technologies you mentioned. Perhaps you didn't mean to imply a person need to know all those things to get a job, but it came across that way to me and I disagree.
austin-cheney 2y ago
Start with a Security+ cert. It is the baby entry level certification for information security, but it is widely respected. More importantly, it is the first level of candidate screening for IT employment in the federal government. Graduate to the CISSP. It is a management certification, but for the last 20 years it has been considered the gold standard for information security employment, and that is likewise reflected in federal government employment. If you want to work in any relation to the DOD you will need a security clearance. If you have a regular federal background check that is active you are immediately more employable than other people. If you have a secret you are supremely more employable than other people. If you have a TS you are more employable than having a secret and can demand a much higher salary as a contractor, but to use a TS you will likely have to work on site at a SCIF. A graduate degree and prior military experience in a leadership capacity seem to be equally weighted for consideration in federal employment and are supremely beneficial. A graduate degree is more practical as military experience alone will not provide career elevation. Specifically for Cyber offense/security jobs you need to aware of CVE reports, reporting processes, mitigation, and security operations. It's absolutely more administrative and operational than technical, but technical skills are nonetheless essential for consideration. You will also want to look at the GSEC certifications, but those are ridiculously expensive.
- dotancohen 2y ago
  Thank you. About half of those acronyms I know. My military experience is not in the US and not in a leadership capacity anyway. I'll start learning, see where we are this time next year!
  - alephnerd 2y ago
    You also need US citizenship and the ability to pass a background check (and if you've been in IL for years, I don't think you'd pass that check), but tbh depending on when and which unit you served in the IDF along with your technical skills, I think you could network your way into some good private sector SWE and PM jobs in the US or TLV.
    - 2y ago

you_should_die 2y ago

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globalnode 2y ago

Contact a recruiter and ask, maybe you could even get an apprenticeship / on the job training. I always thought the book "Code" by Charles Petzold was gold for new people to the industry.

culopatin 2y ago
Has a recruiter ever known anything about a job they list? 0 times in my life

hoofhearted 2y ago

Not in any particular order: Java, Spring Boot, Angular 1 & 2, React, CSS design tokens like Tailwind or Bootstrap, Oracle DB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, AWS and AWS Gov Cloud, Amazon SQS, Kubernetes, Rancher, New Relic, GitHub and GitHub Actions, Service Now, Confluence, Jira, and so on. Study up and understand AGILE workflows, and a 2 week 10 business day sprint working cycles. Then tie that back into continuous integration/continuous deployments mentioned above. If you get a grasp of everything I mentioned above and build out your LinkedIn and resume with all of those skills, multiple recruiters will be in your inbox on a daily basis.

dotancohen 2y ago
Thank you, I've already got a portion of that under my belt. Getting to work now...
- ninininino 2y ago
  Please don't take the parent too too seriously, they listed some fairly useful technologies that are widespread but some that are definitely more situationally needed/niche. I think they were speaking somewhat jokingly/ironically if you couldn't tell (listing 3 relational databases for example as if you need to have experience with all 3 rather than just _any_ relational database).
  - dotancohen 2y ago
    I've done work for places where both MySQL and PostgreSQL were used. In any case, I'm reasonably proficient with either. Thanks.
  - hoofhearted 2y ago
    I was not joking at all. I was 100% serious and listed technologies and skills that the U.S. government is actively recruiting for right now.
    - ninininino 2y ago
      In that case I think you perhaps overstated what is necessary to get a US government job. Or to get a software engineering job in general. I get paid GS-15 level as a civilian and I've never touched Oracle DB, Tailwind, Rancher, or some other technologies you mentioned. Perhaps you didn't mean to imply a person need to know all those things to get a job, but it came across that way to me and I disagree.

austin-cheney 2y ago

Start with a Security+ cert. It is the baby entry level certification for information security, but it is widely respected. More importantly, it is the first level of candidate screening for IT employment in the federal government. Graduate to the CISSP. It is a management certification, but for the last 20 years it has been considered the gold standard for information security employment, and that is likewise reflected in federal government employment. If you want to work in any relation to the DOD you will need a security clearance. If you have a regular federal background check that is active you are immediately more employable than other people. If you have a secret you are supremely more employable than other people. If you have a TS you are more employable than having a secret and can demand a much higher salary as a contractor, but to use a TS you will likely have to work on site at a SCIF. A graduate degree and prior military experience in a leadership capacity seem to be equally weighted for consideration in federal employment and are supremely beneficial. A graduate degree is more practical as military experience alone will not provide career elevation. Specifically for Cyber offense/security jobs you need to aware of CVE reports, reporting processes, mitigation, and security operations. It's absolutely more administrative and operational than technical, but technical skills are nonetheless essential for consideration. You will also want to look at the GSEC certifications, but those are ridiculously expensive.

dotancohen 2y ago
Thank you. About half of those acronyms I know. My military experience is not in the US and not in a leadership capacity anyway. I'll start learning, see where we are this time next year!
- alephnerd 2y ago
  You also need US citizenship and the ability to pass a background check (and if you've been in IL for years, I don't think you'd pass that check), but tbh depending on when and which unit you served in the IDF along with your technical skills, I think you could network your way into some good private sector SWE and PM jobs in the US or TLV.
  - 2y ago