IT Certifications and Careers (Official Discussion Thread)
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Appreciate it. Been trying to skill up for DevOps and learning a bunch of things at once. I this chart does a great job of breaking it down. Both for beginners and those with some preexisting knowledge.
Operational work (support, network, security, servers) is more cert/experience while development and management would be more degree/experience.
Mirin4rmfar
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You will honestly find both. To make it to upper management you definitely need the degree base on what I have seen so far. You will find people who started doing help desk, work their way up to support etc. Everyone's path is different. Tips..go on linkedin and glassdoor, find six figure titles and look for their qualifications. Cert allow you to set a baseline salary if you have the experience.
Secure Da Bag
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IAM contracts? What are those?
xXMASHERXx
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IAM is so important but so many companies don't care about it. I can't tell you the number of systems I have access to that I shouldn't because no one cares to manage access properly.Work paid for a bunch of Azure certs so I'll be doing them next
I'm seeing a wave of IAM contracts, varying between £550-750 a day
The bag is just waiting
IAM = Access Management. Basically managing who has access to what systems and the type of access they have. Very lucrative if you know your shyt.
i think i might be the minority in here these days...but i got the degrees...2 of them actually..in my case the degrees def opened some doors for me...but ive had professional work experience since 2003 when i got my first internship..so it balances it out..but most only have 1 degree from my experience..or degree and certs combo
What y'all know about cloud engineering? IT guy at my job was upgrading my monitors and I was chopping it up with him and saying how I had been looking into the A+ cert. He was like forget that. Ima get you right and put you on with cloud engineering. That's where it's at. Make decent money there. Other IT guy that was with him has his A+ and his networking. My boy who does QA was telling me that those are stupid certs for IT. The guy said we were gonna talk later this week so gonna see what's up. I ain't no computer expert but I know some basics. Not tryna be a damn near genius with this cloud engineering in like a month tho. Feel like I should still get the A+ just as a base but most of the stuff that I'm not good with is the troubleshooting aspect.
Mirin4rmfar
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He is right, this is where the money is at. The Cloud is so big that it's best to focus on sub section of it. You can learn data engineering, cloud security, devops etc. etc. All are highly paid skillsets.
49K jobs with some jobs paying as high as 135K+
https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q="aws"&l=
11K job for A+
https://www.indeed.com/jobs?q="a+"&l=
What's a good beginner role cuz doing research and it looks like you need five years of experience for this and I have none? People tell me A+ is useless yet you gotta be an established expert to get into any of these fields.
Mirin4rmfar
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It's hard to tell man. Depends on what you want to do. My passion is cyber security so that's what I chased but there is so much more to do in the cloud.
Go in linux academy , they do a pretty good job of breaking it down by career path and what you can learn.
Also a lot of luck too, you may get lucky n land a senior position or you may start at bottom. Just start studying for aws solutions architect exam or gcp. Then go from there for cloud.
xXMASHERXx
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To get into stuff like cloud and security, yes you need some experience. There are always exceptions but that is the case most of the time. You wouldn't expect someone who just completed med school to perform open heart surgery. Same thing here. When we get a new team member, I give them view/read only access until they can prove to me they won't blow something up. And even then I give them basic access until they've proven themselves even more. You should focus on what entry level jobs in your area are looking for and do what you need to get that position. Once you have your foot in start focusing on what is needed to get those higher level positions.
Yeah I feel what you mean. Gotta get your feet wet before diving in. I saw something also called the ccent from cysco. Guess that's another comptia alternative. Ima need the A+ or a basic one regardless just to get the entry level stuff down and then move on to cloud and networking stuff so I'll understand it better.
Go for the AWS Solutions Architect or Cloud Practitioner certification. While the services will be specific to Amazon, you will get a great education on how a network works and how to maintain it. A+ and many of these others certs are just theory. Amazon gives your a year to use AWS so you can get real world experience. Once you get AWS down, GCP and Azure will be similar just with different names for their services.