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Option 1 may be your best option however I suggest you get someone who can also think for the future. So basically a 2 in 1 guy i.e. architect and admin guy who

Option 1 may be your best option however I suggest you get someone who can also think for the future. So basically a 2 in 1 guy i.e. architect and admin guy who is very ambitious and willing to take your business to the next level. Offering share options might also be a great incentive to attract highly skilled individuals.

dgunn 13y ago
I don't think you can find a very good 2 in 1 guy for this. These two people are very different types. One is happy chugging along just keeping the lights on and probably is only interested in doing that. The other is going to be more of a visionary who would not be motivated by just admin work. For example I consider myself more of a 2 of the two types listed here. I am a builder and would never accept a sysadmin job. It would be boring to me.
- webdisrupt 13y ago
  I guess then you haven't met me and another friend hehe as I do both the architecture and sys admin. I feel that recruitment within the IT industry is shifting to having people that do more than one thing rather than an individual who is very specialised. This obviously would save companies lots of cash. E.g. Front end and back end developer merged into one.
  - dgunn 13y ago
    I'm not saying I can't do this. Or that you can't. I certainly do everything on my own when I'm starting something new as I'm sure many builders do. My point is that I don't think it's a sustainable assignment. When the sys admin job becomes big enough, admins will spend a ton of time doing simple repetitive tasks. I can't imagine a person with the neural architecture of a visionary/builder-of-things being willing to do this type of work for very long. Perhaps the fact that there are tools out there which automate repetitive sys admin tasks is a sign that these types of people have been placed in these jobs before and they did what they do best. Perhaps that's even reason enough to place them in these jobs to begin with. I may have just talked myself out of thinking this is a bad idea...

dgunn 13y ago

I don't think you can find a very good 2 in 1 guy for this. These two people are very different types. One is happy chugging along just keeping the lights on and probably is only interested in doing that. The other is going to be more of a visionary who would not be motivated by just admin work. For example I consider myself more of a 2 of the two types listed here. I am a builder and would never accept a sysadmin job. It would be boring to me.

webdisrupt 13y ago
I guess then you haven't met me and another friend hehe as I do both the architecture and sys admin. I feel that recruitment within the IT industry is shifting to having people that do more than one thing rather than an individual who is very specialised. This obviously would save companies lots of cash. E.g. Front end and back end developer merged into one.
- dgunn 13y ago
  I'm not saying I can't do this. Or that you can't. I certainly do everything on my own when I'm starting something new as I'm sure many builders do. My point is that I don't think it's a sustainable assignment. When the sys admin job becomes big enough, admins will spend a ton of time doing simple repetitive tasks. I can't imagine a person with the neural architecture of a visionary/builder-of-things being willing to do this type of work for very long. Perhaps the fact that there are tools out there which automate repetitive sys admin tasks is a sign that these types of people have been placed in these jobs before and they did what they do best. Perhaps that's even reason enough to place them in these jobs to begin with. I may have just talked myself out of thinking this is a bad idea...