Question: how to get a job as SysAdmin in 2023-2024?
We’ve been “moving to the cloud” for the last 4? years. We’ve all had training on it and most of us have accounts in “the cloud”. However, I’m supporting a legacy piece of healthcare software that they’re trying to move customers off. Dev’s have a POC that we COULD work in the cloud but it’s more a lift and shift then it is anything else. They’re going to have a HARD time getting Doctors, Hospitals signing on to be “in the cloud”, never mind the provinces. ALL health care data legally needs to stay in Canada so that’ll be fun too… Anyway, We’re not actually hiring your standard sysadmins, everyone they’re looking for needs cloud experience and they’ll be expected to at least support some ‘legacy’ software also.
it sounds like it’s the current work environment.
It is and it isn’t. I get ~$30 a day to carry the phone which is 1 week on 4 weeks off. If anyone calls me I get minimum 3 hours pay per day. This is on top of the 7h days if I worked that day. OT is a little weird math wise but I get 1.5* pay basically every time I’m called out. I’ve read this is MUCH better then a lot of places out there.
After hours work is planned but again, healthcare means I have to do it at 2-4AM usually. During the first year of covid was nuts. needed Director and in some cases VP approval for all work. why I have no idea, they don’t know what we do. It’s not so much the planned downtime that gets me, It’s when the unplanned stuff happens or I have to fight with a different team.
A couple months ago ~50% of our sql replication from one DC to another stopped working over the weekend. After an hour of fighting with the networking team I installed wireshark on both ends, wrote a quick while true nc to port 3306, captured this and showed them the packets were NOT making it to the other end. Going out A but not getting to B, it’s NOT ME. only then did they trace the fucking things to find a bad route on a device they were working on a couple hours before.
We’ve been “moving to the cloud” for the last 4? years. We’ve all had training on it and most of us have accounts in “the cloud”. However, I’m supporting a legacy piece of healthcare software that they’re trying to move customers off. Dev’s have a POC that we COULD work in the cloud but it’s more a lift and shift then it is anything else. They’re going to have a HARD time getting Doctors, Hospitals signing on to be “in the cloud”, never mind the provinces. ALL health care data legally needs to stay in Canada so that’ll be fun too… Anyway, We’re not actually hiring your standard sysadmins, everyone they’re looking for needs cloud experience and they’ll be expected to at least support some ‘legacy’ software also.
It is and it isn’t. I get ~$30 a day to carry the phone which is 1 week on 4 weeks off. If anyone calls me I get minimum 3 hours pay per day. This is on top of the 7h days if I worked that day. OT is a little weird math wise but I get 1.5* pay basically every time I’m called out. I’ve read this is MUCH better then a lot of places out there.
After hours work is planned but again, healthcare means I have to do it at 2-4AM usually. During the first year of covid was nuts. needed Director and in some cases VP approval for all work. why I have no idea, they don’t know what we do. It’s not so much the planned downtime that gets me, It’s when the unplanned stuff happens or I have to fight with a different team.
A couple months ago ~50% of our sql replication from one DC to another stopped working over the weekend. After an hour of fighting with the networking team I installed wireshark on both ends, wrote a quick while true nc to port 3306, captured this and showed them the packets were NOT making it to the other end. Going out A but not getting to B, it’s NOT ME. only then did they trace the fucking things to find a bad route on a device they were working on a couple hours before.
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