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All these companies leaving Heroku and other PaaS providers is definitely a blessing for the thousands of unemployed devops & sysadmins out there.
by meritt 12y ago
All these companies leaving Heroku and other PaaS providers is definitely a blessing for the thousands of unemployed devops & sysadmins out there.
- lucisferre 12y agoI can't say I meet all that many who are unemployed. Maybe that's just me.
- meritt 12y agoOur last engineering job req we received about 10 sysadmin applicants almost all of which started with a "I know I'm not an exact fit but..." sort of line. Maybe it was just an oddity.
- incision 12y ago>'Maybe it was just an oddity.' I think there's a reason, but it's not outright unemployment - yet. On the enterprise side what I'm seeing are traditional sysadmin positions being eaten up by aggressive VARs and software vendors. They all have XaaS plays now and they're targeting their existing customers first. The pitch is literally... "Hey, I can save you $350K/yr. Just fire your ________ team and use our PaaS. We'll perform the migration for free." Assuming the organization doesn't want to pursue their own internal or lower-level external service it leaves the sysadmins to either somehow make the leap to administering a provider system or diversify into other roles where they don't exactly fit.
- spudlyo 12y agoIf any of the thousands of unemployed devops & sysadmin types out there are reading this: Twitter is looking to fill five open SRE positions in San Francisco[1] and two in Seattle[2]. [1] https://about.twitter.com/careers/locations/san-francisco https://about.twitter.com/careers/locations/san-francisco [2] https://about.twitter.com/careers/locations/seattle https://about.twitter.com/careers/locations/seattle If you'd like to know more about the SRE org at Twitter (Seattle in particular) drop me a line. My email address is in my profile.