Secret is good. It’ll take you far and will help you get to a top secret.
IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)
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Secret is good. It’ll take you far and will help you get to a top secret.
How do you get clearance if you don't have it? Is it an employee sponsored thing?
My motivation to do that passed about a decade ago
. I should have tried to get into West Point when they scouted me but I was just too damn lazy. Our biggest obstacle tends to be ourselves
Also, note, clearance isn't transferable from business to business.
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Finally,After 3 panel interviews! 
Just accepted an offer for $96k with a Silicone Valley based company as a Jr. Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, It's more or less a lateral move salary wise,
But it will be my first cloud / cybersecurity focused role, and I'll be getting exposure to Azure, AWS, and GCP environments and a buffet or other technologies, cybersecurity frameworks etc.
And they're adamant about this being a developmental position that pivots straight into Site Reliability Engineer
Didnt know why that was so important and such a sticking point for them, but apparently, SREs . . .
So I'm basically getting paid to learn extremely valuable skills bootcamp style.
That RHCSA finally came in handy, alot of the technical questions were mainly Linux command line based, Sucks that i'm gonna have to re-certify in 2-months from now, might as well go for the RHCE afterwards
I was studying for the CCNA, but i'm gonna have to ease off the gas on that in favor of Linux, Terraform and Splunk, My networking foundation is decent enough as is and the clout of having a CCNA isnt really that necessary at this point in my career, . If anything I MIGHT go for the CyberOPs Associate or Devnet Associate. But not before I knock out the more relevant Cloud and DoD compliant certs. get all these certs out the way ASAP so I can focus purely on Scripting and automation to gear up for that IaC life
I got turned down for multiple cloud and security roles, hell even had the interviewer for a IAM specialist role flake on me 30 minutes beforehand
( Coretelligent, fukk You
)
I got a better offer in the end anyways, took me 4 years to land a role like this so it's time to feast brehs,
It seems like everytime I commit myself to grinding it out the long way or going backwards in efforts to progress, I get inexplicably catapulted forward or sent down an significantly better path-- every since I got into IT it's been that way. I'll just keep counting my blessings, continuing to progress and paying it forward to brehs who arent where i'm at yet. That's not even a brag, My resume is ok. my skills have a loooong ways to go. I mostly get by on my honesty, willingness to learn, and solid grasp of some of the foundational concepts. Truth be told I've rarely felt like I was the most qualified person in the room, mostly the opposite...Imposter Syndrom is real.
aside from basking in the fact I got a better job after almost 4 months of being laid off
My advice would be:
dont try to bullshyt your way to the top, there are way too many Savvy, experienced MFs in this game that will see straight through it,
keep it a buck, play to your strengths as many or few as they may seem and always be willing to grind. Also depending on your financial situation, waiting for the right role is worth it.
Done.
Just accepted an offer for $96k with a Silicone Valley based company as a Jr. Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, It's more or less a lateral move salary wise,
But it will be my first cloud / cybersecurity focused role, and I'll be getting exposure to Azure, AWS, and GCP environments and a buffet or other technologies, cybersecurity frameworks etc.
And they're adamant about this being a developmental position that pivots straight into Site Reliability Engineer
Didnt know why that was so important and such a sticking point for them, but apparently, SREs . . .
So I'm basically getting paid to learn extremely valuable skills bootcamp style.
That RHCSA finally came in handy, alot of the technical questions were mainly Linux command line based, Sucks that i'm gonna have to re-certify in 2-months from now, might as well go for the RHCE afterwards
I was studying for the CCNA, but i'm gonna have to ease off the gas on that in favor of Linux, Terraform and Splunk, My networking foundation is decent enough as is and the clout of having a CCNA isnt really that necessary at this point in my career, . If anything I MIGHT go for the CyberOPs Associate or Devnet Associate. But not before I knock out the more relevant Cloud and DoD compliant certs. get all these certs out the way ASAP so I can focus purely on Scripting and automation to gear up for that IaC life
I got turned down for multiple cloud and security roles, hell even had the interviewer for a IAM specialist role flake on me 30 minutes beforehand
( Coretelligent, fukk You
)I got a better offer in the end anyways, took me 4 years to land a role like this so it's time to feast brehs,
It seems like everytime I commit myself to grinding it out the long way or going backwards in efforts to progress, I get inexplicably catapulted forward or sent down an significantly better path-- every since I got into IT it's been that way. I'll just keep counting my blessings, continuing to progress and paying it forward to brehs who arent where i'm at yet. That's not even a brag, My resume is ok. my skills have a loooong ways to go. I mostly get by on my honesty, willingness to learn, and solid grasp of some of the foundational concepts. Truth be told I've rarely felt like I was the most qualified person in the room, mostly the opposite...Imposter Syndrom is real.
aside from basking in the fact I got a better job after almost 4 months of being laid off
My advice would be:
dont try to bullshyt your way to the top, there are way too many Savvy, experienced MFs in this game that will see straight through it,
keep it a buck, play to your strengths as many or few as they may seem and always be willing to grind. Also depending on your financial situation, waiting for the right role is worth it.
Done.
Congrats on the new position. You right, from what I've noticed from interviews is people instantly lose credibility by keyword stuffing resumes with skill sets they don't have real world experience with.Finally,After 3 panel interviews!
Just accepted an offer for $96k with a Silicone Valley based company as a Jr. Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, It's more or less a lateral move salary wise,
But it will be my first cloud / cybersecurity focused role, and I'll be getting exposure to Azure, AWS, and GCP environments and a buffet or other technologies, cybersecurity frameworks etc.
And they're adamant about this being a developmental position that pivots straight into Site Reliability Engineer
Didnt know why that was so important and such a sticking point for them, but apparently, SREs . . .
So I'm basically getting paid to learn extremely valuable skills bootcamp style.
That RHCSA finally came in handy, alot of the technical questions were mainly Linux command line based, Sucks that i'm gonna have to re-certify in 2-months from now, might as well go for the RHCE afterwards
I was studying for the CCNA, but i'm gonna have to ease off the gas on that in favor of Linux, Terraform and Splunk, My networking foundation is decent enough as is and the clout of having a CCNA isnt really that necessary at this point in my career, . If anything I MIGHT go for the CyberOPs Associate or Devnet Associate. But not before I knock out the more relevant Cloud and DoD compliant certs. get all these certs out the way ASAP so I can focus purely on Scripting and automation to gear up for that IaC life
I got turned down for multiple cloud and security roles, hell even had the interviewer for a IAM specialist role flake on me 30 minutes beforehand
( Coretelligent, fukk You
I got a better offer in the end anyways, took me 4 years to land a role like this so it's time to feast brehs,
It seems like everytime I commit myself to grinding it out the long way or going backwards in efforts to progress, I get inexplicably catapulted forward or sent down an significantly better path-- every since I got into IT it's been that way. I'll just keep counting my blessings, continuing to progress and paying it forward to brehs who arent where i'm at yet. That's not even a brag, My resume is ok. my skills have a loooong ways to go. I mostly get by on my honesty, willingness to learn, and solid grasp of some of the foundational concepts. Truth be told I've rarely felt like I was the most qualified person in the room, mostly the opposite...Imposter Syndrom is real.
aside from basking in the fact I got a better job after almost 4 months of being laid off
My advice would be:
dont try to bullshyt your way to the top, there are way too many Savvy, experienced MFs in this game that will see straight through it,
keep it a buck, play to your strengths as many or few as they may seem and always be willing to grind. Also depending on your financial situation, waiting for the right role is worth it.
Done.
Be honest, so when you in front of that panel - that sidechat they having is positive.
On week 4 of the google cert. just started on Wednesday. A lot of this stuff I remember despite it being like 3 years since I messed with anything it related.
Field Services (1 year experience) guy I used to work with just left to a cyber security role (he’s still in college) who has a security clearance from the marines. The job is based in DC but it’s remote.
Have said having a security clearance is what got him the job.
For CCNA all he needs is packet tracer. Once he tries for CCNP; then he can look into EVEng or CML.
The Ebay lab kits worked for me - Here is the setup I bought years ago. 2014?
Yup. I always have a good story about how I used it and the persons problem they were having and how I solved it with whatever technology they are talking about.
I don’t know. Let me ask him on LinkedIn today and see.
Didn’t need to ask. It’s on his profile. Secretly security clearance