[ale] [JOBS] Sr. Systems Administrator positions

[Ken Ratliff]

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On Feb 25, 2009, at 2:52 PM, Jeff Hubbs wrote:

> Are you proposing that no job posting on the ALE list should be
> commented upon?  And even though this posting, as Aaron said, appears
> legitimate, what are we to make of 5 years of Red Hat administration
> being considered "Senior" or any other head-scratcher that appears  
> in a
> posting (like, say, "20 years of Perl programming" or "C, C+, and C+ 
> +")?


I think the senior comment may have been blown out of proportion  
though. I mean, lets say all there other guys have like a year or 2  
experience adming a *x based system. In comparison, a guy with 5 years  
would be considered senior. I've seen that particular word used with  
so much variation. I've seen job postings for Senior Unix positions  
that want 7+ years, and others that want 15+ years.

It's much the same for network jobs. I see listings for things like  
Junior Network Administrator's or Engineers that want an associates  
and a CCNA, but Senior positions that range from 5+ years and a CCNP  
to 10+ years and a CCIE (and usually a damn bachelor's degree to boot).

I think you have to look more at the duties the job entails than the  
titles involved. After all, it's not a very hard stretch to imagine a  
janitor being called a Senior Sanitation Engineer

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