What is the best way to enter a network engineer career?

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Computer networks

People such an interesting question 30 years is very interested in the career of a network engineer. I only get higher education (software engineer). I almost finished the Cisco Network Academy, then I will try to get CCNA. The question is where next CCNP, CCIE or develop towards SDN? And in general, in 30 ku, will anyone need it without real practical experience. Still, give them the gurus of the fathers of engineers)! What is really valued in the market now?

Answer 1

I almost finished the Cisco Network Academy, then I will try to get CCNA. The question is where next CCNP, CCIE or develop towards SDN?

Regarding the direction of training, I believe that all these magical SDNs, with which you do nothing, but everything is there, this is, of course, wonderful, but the base (routing&switching) is necessary for normal operation, so you should concentrate on it. In parallel (but not to the detriment of the base) - Linux / FreeBSD at the level of deployment and support of monitoring servers (nagios, cacti, zabbix), programming at the level of elementary scripting (I suggest python, but here it’s up to you).
All these "cloud distributed failover solutions" are great as long as they work. In the event of an accident, a person is sharply required who understands what exactly is hidden behind the veil of marketing terms.
About certificates. It is better to spend the employer's money on them than your own. If you still decide to pay for it yourself, then look towards Juniper (JNCIA-JunOS and JNCIS-ENT), exams are cheaper, organized, in my opinion, much more correctly and conveniently (I did not find cisco-lettering in them), documentation and The tutorials on the Juniper site are good too.
Good luck!

Answer 2

In my opinion, adequacy is valued.
At interviews, you can tell a fascinating story about what you went through on the courses and what problems you encountered. You can embellish the story by organizing the schemes not at the lab booth, but for example by freelancing by finding orders on exchanges like odesk, fl..

Answer 3

taking into account clouds and global automation, this is rather a dying area, I hope soon all switches will become software and cisco will die with its "beautiful" interface for people.

Answer 4

I don't think dying. the main thing is to get in line. started as an office system administrator, got into isp 10 years ago. there, after a year and a half, they sent me to ssna (although I still learned more myself, from friends / acquaintances / google), trips to cisco-expo. in general, there and stretched. isp was built exclusively on cats (kernel, distribution and aggregation). you should now get somewhere where you can gain experience, tk. ssna / ssnp without experience - not very much sense (after ssna he often asked his teachers for solutions to life situations - they helped very little). on the other hand, a person who does not have a single certificate always helped out (a cat lover in the main isp)