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by johngalt
1651 days ago
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This has been exactly my path. Can write data security guidelines and also read PCAP files fluently. However, you will not find very many of me. Sysadmin/ops has too many offramps that drain talent before year 10. If you can integrate software/systems well, manage projects or do advanced troubleshooting; you will likely be pulled out of ops. Conversely there are an ocean of security certifications being issued to people who have very little operational/technical experience. Data security in practice is being reduced to a policy and procedure checklist. It is frustrating for an engineering group to receive non-specific or contradictory policy guidelines written by non-technical people, but I have yet to see that change hiring or decision making. Businesses want someone who will agree to check the box. If that someone doesn't know all the details, that makes checking the box easier. The future of cybersecurity is not skilled coordinator/PM but instead yet another non-technical management arm handing down mandates that are blind to technical reality. There isn't another option. There aren't enough people to fulfill demand, and the compensation for cybersecurity positions are often less than a senior infrastructure role. How many sysadmins really understand networking, programming, databases, etc; While also having the people skills to not alienate both management and highly technical development and operations teams? We will never have enough people at the intersection of that many skills. |
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Plus nowadays more and more companies are going on cloud, so there are fewer sysadmins jobs anyway.
I'm someone who really wants to be in some admin jobs, be it DBA or sysadmin, problem is I first joined as a business analyst, and now I'm a DWH developer/Data engineer hybrid, every step towards a admin-ish job takes way too long and difficult for me :/