Job advertisements

george
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So that’s not just a US thing huh?

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I’ve lost track of the number of job ads in the UK where they require, for example, 5 years of experience in X, when X has been around for less than 5 years.

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The ideal candidate is a female between the ages of 20 and 25, with 10 years experience in this field, as well as at least 10 years experience in a similar field

How the UK jobs market works.

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I’d one speculatively sent to me late last year where they listed 9 non-overlapping specialities they wanted candidates to “demonstrate expertise” in. A few of them you could become an expert in with little time (maybe a year or so), but some, some you’ll only become an expert in if it’s your day job for 5+ years. Total experience required was in the region of 30 years, for a position that was clearly fairly junior from the role title.

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And then the employers will moan because there are no suitable candidates applying despite the high unemployment :scream:

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It’s never the fault of the person causing the problem.

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Hee haw. The fun never stops. Found this gem :

My derp-o-meter tells me it is three or more jobs rolled into one…

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Further, to the post above “highly pressured” and “fast-paced” does not inspire confidence…

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The one of the sadder parts of “fast-paced” is that only covers the rank-and-file, and possibly the lowest rungs of management.

If an employee needs management to do something, forget about it.

I spent three months once, trying to get a mistake on my paycheck fixed. Requests for time off could take weeks to get a response. Employment verification? a month.

Management needs to come in to opening the building, because security is out sick? Not going to happen until the manager’s shift starts (and they usually came in late).

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I thought so, something did not feel kosher to that advert

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One of the reasons I’m glad I’ve always worked for privately owned companies. The owner of the place I’m at now works about 20 hours a day. He’ll take a two or three week drop off the face of the earth Alaskan fishing trip once a year or so, but the rest of the time he’s working. Now, at that level working means a lot of travel and dinners and even “vacations” but he’s working.

We’re up to 800 people now, business is booming and I think he’s enjoying every minute of it. Even with the hours he’s keeping. It’s nice when upper management works hard. Just not too sure about middle management.

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And one more from the same headhunter

(Will clean and reformat this once I have access to a PC, on a phablet it is frustrating)

[Quote]Systems Administrator (R20 000 - R25 000)

Responsibilities:

  • Configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.

  • Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.

  • Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions.

  • Installation of new and rebuilding of existing servers while maintaining installation and configuration procedures

  • Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks.

  • Identify approaches that leverage our resources and provide economies of scale.

  • Repair and recover from hardware or software failures. Coordinate and communicate with impacted business units and escalate to Tier III where necessary

  • Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities.

  • Configure / add new services as necessary.

  • Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.

  • Maintain data centre environmental and monitoring equipment.

  • Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required. Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required.

  • Installing and maintain firewall access rules and polices

  • Monitoring of communication links

  • Documentation of procedures and technical implementation

Skills & Experience Required:

  • 5+ years of related experience with Windows platforms

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Engineering or a related qualification

  • Previous experience in a highly regulated environment where polices, controls and processes are strictly adhered to

  • Good working knowledge of Active Directory 2008/2012 as well as supporting Active Directory Group Policy
    Proven experience working on production/enterprise environments
    Ability to identify risks that exist within the IT infrastructure and propose clear and simple solutions to address them

  • Experience with

o Cisco ASA 5520+ & Cisco Switches
o Checkpoint firewalls
o VMware 4/5

  • Good working knowledge of
    o VLAN, TCP/IP, VPN ,LAN & WAN technologies
    o Amazon Web Services
    o Linux environments
    o Chef / Puppet
    o Powershell scripting
    o Monitoring tools such as Solarwinds, OPmanager, Splunk & New relic
    o HP / Dell server installation
    o SAN environments
    o MSMQ & NServiceBus architecture(Nice to have)
    o Continuous integration & pipeline management
    o Load balancers
    o high availability and clustering technologies
    -Good communication and prioritisation skills
    -Experience working in a high paced pressured environment
  • Appreciation of DevOps responsibilities
    We reward hard work and our benefits package includes , but is not limited to, VHI healthcare, 25 days holidays, onsite subsidised restaurant, pension (to be introduced later this year), life assurance, 50% off Maldron gym membership (Dublin), bike to work scheme and tax saver commuter tickets.
    [/quote]

Naaaaa, I’ll skip this one as well…

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Most companies can’t do this once a month.

Even if their hardware is nothing but abacuses, I doubt this could be done.

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Welcome to my life for the past 6 months.

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If you don’t have this automated to the point where you have a system-wide health status emailed to you by 0700 daily, you’re going to spend multiple days performing each day’s “verification.”

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A quickie ping and http job should make sure said sercer(s) is up and responding… But nah, too easy to virtualize something and then snaffle said hardware…

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I don’t know, “all hardware” doesn’t say “server hardware” to me. Especially when IT is expected to handle everything down to the clock on the CEO’s DVD player.

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I hear what you say… it is extremely vague.

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All that for a senior tech? And project management to boot?