Hiring smart people and training them is definitely more of an Ops route than it is a development route. That's how I got my job as a Linux admin, I worked in t

Hiring smart people and training them is definitely more of an Ops route than it is a development route. That's how I got my job as a Linux admin, I worked in tech support and learned a bunch then got promoted. I was already ahead of the curve anyway, but I was definitely not qualified to be an admin before my stint in tech support.