Where can I find a junior unix administrator job?

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Career in IT

Hello everyone, I am 23 years old, I am a student, I have been working in the IT field for 4 years. I'm not sickly bombed on the topic of finding a job, so read:
I worked mainly with enikey, I only knew about the existence of the nt line OS, I met unix by chance, the first time I found out that my router can be reflashed in openwrt and robustly increase its functionality and stability. Then I watched video courses for unix administrators. I was a little overwhelmed at the beginning by the difficult environment to master. But then I realized all the advantages of unix: it is a file system with a single root and many mount points, and a package manager, and a simple understandable directory structure, a standardized approach to storing configuration files and logs. Great freedom and flexibility in choosing system and application software, and most importantly, most administrative tasks are solved with very little resources and do not require an x-server, for example, taskmgr.exe in Windows eats 20 times more than top or ps in unix. And the most important advantage for enterprises,
Over the years of my work, I have not seen any idiotic solutions, for example, in an office with 10 workstations, an Internet gateway and a file server were raised on windows xp + acronis backup + kerio control, because the director wanted to block employees' access to social networks. Licenses are broken, of course, because where does an office with 10 jobs get 20-40 tr. for all these products. BUT WHY?? debian+samba+squid+bind+cron+ rsync would cope with this task with a bang and absolutely free of charge, plus you could raise apache, sendmail, cups, a scan server, a soft-raid of 2 disks, and even a frail system manager, would solve everything on Hurrah. And there are plenty of such examples, I know this because I worked as a traveling enikey and visited ~ 40 small and medium-sized offices in the city. Everyone seemed to be obsessed with Windows and paid bulky and buggy software, like Windows itself,
Despite the scribbling that I arranged here, I do not have much experience in administering them. But there is a desire to work and develop as a unix-admin. But here are the vacancies in which there would be a unix / linux administrator, alas, there are almost no in my city, what would you advise the forum members? Where are such specialists in demand? And most importantly, where to start a career?

Answer 1

It seems to me that just linux-admins are not really needed. It makes sense to attach a good knowledge of some applied software or hardware to a good knowledge of the system. In its purest form, unix admins are needed when you need to administer AIX+Power or Solaris+SPARC. And if storages like Storwize and Brocade switches are attached to this, then we can talk about almost pure unix-administration. The second option is a bunch of unix-admin and DBA. Linux alone does not surprise anyone.
As for small towns, I will allow myself to give advice. Level up Asterisk and offer small businesses a free telephone exchange with a bunch of tasty goodies, just like adult stations. This is where you get into a company with linux, and then you can offer all other services on linux, and then receive almost passive income from the service.

Answer 2

> I will never be able to be a unix only specialist, due to the fact that microsoft dominates here.
don't quite agree. Yes, the MS stack still dominates, but on the other hand, near-network equipment (VPN access servers, network gateways) or individual services - mail, NAS - may well not be on Windows. And if it is difficult for ONE administrator to be unix-only, then PAIRED with a screw administrator - quite, why not? In a normal enterprise > 2 administrators, the situation is normal, because some work needs to be done at night + sometimes on duty or leaving. To work within the framework of the shopping mall, two admins are quite an adequate solution. In regular situations, one may well specialize in * nix.
In general, you are rightly advised to learn some more software. People love more or less complete solutions, it is logical that the director wants you to be able to at least raise and administer mail, or maintain an internal site.
By the way, there is much less corporate software under .NET now, Python and Ruby have a good share in internal corporate applications, and .NET itself is already much better supported by MS itself on unix systems. Consequently, now > 80% of servers are about * nix (even more in IT-specialized companies). A huge amount of software on the java platform is much more often run on linux machines. So learn to say "Hi. I can support mail/NAS/JIRA/Redmine/Jenkins/Samba, if you don't, I can pick it up." And in many cases, you will either already have unix, or (with experience) you will be able to set everything up yourself. Oh, and DBA is a different story. If you cope with PostgreSQL, and even with Oracle, you will be given good money.
And after all, data loss is now fatal or highly undesirable for most companies. Almost always, the first task of the administrator is to set up backups and monitor them (operability, "training" accidents, etc.), and Windows is simply useless on a backup machine.
In general, draw your own conclusions. My opinion: if the company is not stuck in the 90s, it has more than 10 employees, and something is used there besides MS Office and Windows shared folders, then a unix admin is quite useful there. Oh yeah, be sure to learn a couple of scripting languages. For example, bash as a language from the unix world, and Python as originally cross-platform. When a person knows how to write scripts, the enikey man ends and the system administrator begins.

Answer 3

go to headhunter and look for