DevOps - combining 3 jobs into 1 and paying only once for it
Lately the trend is to combine traditional SCM position with your Unix/Linux administrator and Automation/Helpdesk work, call it "DevOps" and pay only one salary. They're asking for the world and paying for a cityblock. They are asking for a jack of all trades who is a master of no trade specifically and what they get are burnt out engineers trying to please everybody and failing miserably.
Witness a recent post to the job board DICE: DevOps Engineer to which I respond:
I suspect that this is an example of the kinds of assignments we would be shooting for however let me point out a thing or two.
First, this is supposedly W2 only. As such this supposedly would not be open to our business at all...
Secondly there's a statement of "This is an excellent opportunity to work on the latest technologies used by the big software/web companies while maintaining a great work/life balance" however anybody knowing all of this stuff clearly has no room on their calendar for any kind of work/life balance unless you define work as working at work and life balance as working at home!
Finally, in order to quote/unquote "qualify" for this assignment you'd need to know Linux, Windows, Agile Envs, Ruby and Java web apps, Perl, Python, Bash, Awk, PHP, Elastic Cloud (probably Electric Cloud but the recruiter got it wrong), ESXi, EC2, Rackspace Cloud, Hypervisor, KVM, Xen, VDI, Jenkins, Hudson (which is merely the old name for Jenkins), Cruise Control, Electric Commander (yes all of the CI web based platforms... 'cept BuildForge, of course...), Chef, Puppet, Cfengine (cause you can't know just one), Babushka, Knife, Mcollective, Func, Kickstart, PXE, MySQL, Oracle, MongDB, HBase, Cassandra, Hadoop, Junit, Phpunit (is that real?), Rspec, Cucumber, MQ, CDN, Varnish, MemcacheD, Redis, haproxy, Global Traffic Management, GeoDNS, Failable Architecture (I would venture to guess the non-failable architecture too), SDLC, Nagios, Gangila, CollectD, Graphite, Aptitude, dpkg, Yum and RPM (what no setup.exe or Install Shield?), Single Sign on, LDAP, Kerberos, OpenDirectory, PAM, NFS, NTP, APache, nginx, IPTables, Nessus, nmap, F5 BIG-IP, Viprion, REST, XML, JSON and if you can add it on - HBase. Oh and walk on water, turn that water into wine, in high heels, backwards and if it were not too much trouble - with a smile . On and exhibit all you're wonderful skills in a mere 6 months.
Is this for real? I would bet my entire year's salary that a person who knows all of this does not exist in America! Like my subject says: Basically: Looking for Jesus!
Can you say unrealistic? Sure you can
Witness a recent post to the job board DICE: DevOps Engineer to which I respond:
I suspect that this is an example of the kinds of assignments we would be shooting for however let me point out a thing or two.
First, this is supposedly W2 only. As such this supposedly would not be open to our business at all...
Secondly there's a statement of "This is an excellent opportunity to work on the latest technologies used by the big software/web companies while maintaining a great work/life balance" however anybody knowing all of this stuff clearly has no room on their calendar for any kind of work/life balance unless you define work as working at work and life balance as working at home!
Finally, in order to quote/unquote "qualify" for this assignment you'd need to know Linux, Windows, Agile Envs, Ruby and Java web apps, Perl, Python, Bash, Awk, PHP, Elastic Cloud (probably Electric Cloud but the recruiter got it wrong), ESXi, EC2, Rackspace Cloud, Hypervisor, KVM, Xen, VDI, Jenkins, Hudson (which is merely the old name for Jenkins), Cruise Control, Electric Commander (yes all of the CI web based platforms... 'cept BuildForge, of course...), Chef, Puppet, Cfengine (cause you can't know just one), Babushka, Knife, Mcollective, Func, Kickstart, PXE, MySQL, Oracle, MongDB, HBase, Cassandra, Hadoop, Junit, Phpunit (is that real?), Rspec, Cucumber, MQ, CDN, Varnish, MemcacheD, Redis, haproxy, Global Traffic Management, GeoDNS, Failable Architecture (I would venture to guess the non-failable architecture too), SDLC, Nagios, Gangila, CollectD, Graphite, Aptitude, dpkg, Yum and RPM (what no setup.exe or Install Shield?), Single Sign on, LDAP, Kerberos, OpenDirectory, PAM, NFS, NTP, APache, nginx, IPTables, Nessus, nmap, F5 BIG-IP, Viprion, REST, XML, JSON and if you can add it on - HBase. Oh and walk on water, turn that water into wine, in high heels, backwards and if it were not too much trouble - with a smile . On and exhibit all you're wonderful skills in a mere 6 months.
Is this for real? I would bet my entire year's salary that a person who knows all of this does not exist in America! Like my subject says: Basically: Looking for Jesus!
Can you say unrealistic? Sure you can
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