Career advice- catching the next wave 2019 edition
This is so good to hear!
congrats
I had another AWS thread saying invest, posters would have already 200% their investment.
Anyway, the game is still early and evolving.
Serverless is becoming a big thing.
It allows AWS to re-leverage existing capacity when a while a user server/VM is sitting there being under-utilized.
Check out DevOpSec as well
Look into product management
Check out Product School, tell me if you are interested in what you are seeing.
Alternate paths that are not so technical but still in the technical field:
- Product Management
- Agile: Agile project management, Scrum master
- Sales Engineering (somewhat technical but not too technical- supports the sales team)
- Tier 1/Tier2 technical support: SaaS, trouble tickets, field support
- Data Analyst- Tableau, Microstrategy, PowerBI (tableau is the clear winner)
Check out youtube to get some more details about each.
Browse udacity as well to understand the different technology domains.
.
you would be surprised based on the company.
Some SEs review proposals, do demoes for clients, answer some product questions.... anything else they bring in the prod Mgr, Engineers etc
example:
Sales Engineer
Leanplum4 reviews - New York, NY
$150,000 a year - Full-time, Commission
We’re looking for talent to join our world-class team (including but not limited to 7 ex-Googlers, 3 medalists from programming competitions, an ex-Adobe exec and an ex-VC)! Leanplum is on a mission to reinvent marketing automation for the mobile world, by empowering marketers and product managers to optimize their mobile apps with hyper-personalized messaging and user experience optimization, all without coding.
Responsibilities:
- Create and deliver highly personalized technical sales presentations in conjunction with the sales team
- Take the lead to achieve technical acceptance
- Taking complex technical ideas and functions and articulating them in a way that someone without technical knowhow can understand clearly
- Working and traveling to meet directly with Senior C level executives
- Collaborate closely with our product team to help influence product roadmap based on the customer’s needsProvide responses to RFPs and RFIs 20-25% Travel
- You have 1-3 years of sales engineering experience
- You have 1-3 years of SaaS company experience
- You have been part of a fast growing start-up in the past
- You have an interest in the mobile app space
Salary: $150,000.00 /year
Experience:
- Sales Engineering: 1 year (Required)
- SaaS: 1 year (Preferred)
- No
- Multiple locations
- Fully Remote
- On the road
- Paid time off
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Healthcare spending or reimbursement accounts such as HSAs or FSAs
- Gym memberships or discounts
- Commuting/travel assistance
- Flexible schedules
- Workplace perks such as food/coffee and flexible work schedules
- Yes
- Ops Manager
From Indeed dot com
Man, sales engineers can make a KILLING off commission if they can get government contracts.
I am currently a DoD civilian employee and I manage several contracts where we buy services, as well as, hire contractors to do specialized work. From a DoD standpoint, Cybersecurity is our biggest concern these days. It is very difficult for us to hire qualified cyber folks because we cant compete in salary, to what the bigger companies (Boeing, Lockheed Martin, BAE, Honeywell, Raytheon, and a host of other companies) are willing to pay folks with the right degree and certifications. Coming into the government as cyber, depending on where you live, we would probably bring someone in with the right credentials, i.e., Security +, CEH, NCSF, and variuos others. Entry level, the government would probably offer someone starting between 82 -92K, where as the companies I named before are offering double that right out school. If I didn't already have a masters degree, was a little younger, and didn't have so much time invested in my current career, cyber is the way I would go
For those considering cyber security:
Elasticsearch now has a SIEM plugin: https://www.elastic.co/solutions/siem
For those building on AWS:
- Shield
- WAF
- Cloudwatch
See NIST: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/tag/cybersecurity-framework/
You can add Splunk to that list too. It's not going anywhere anytime soon.
Bump
Yall are on a roll this month
^^^
I can’t say this enough , IT operations is dead , everything is now automated . Devs can spin and destroy a machine using code . Hence why @water is advising you to think like a software engineer .
I have data centers around the world that I have never visited , yet I can control them all from my laptop .
I have data centers around the world that I have never visited , yet I can control them all from my laptop .
Operations is not dead but rather concentrated to the big dogs:
Amazon is hiring SRE (Site Reliability Engineers)
Google is hiring SRE
Facebook is hiring Production Engineers
Microsoft is hiring SRE
Hence my advice about operations . The big boys are the ones who doing the heavy donkey work , and we consuming services from them. I m also shifting so much of my operations into (put name of cloud service provider here ) , the only applications remaining in my infra , is geo location specific items which can’t be moved due to ie anycast technology and I m serving the content as nearest as I can to the consumer .
Anyone ?
I'll take a shot.
You have the AWS Command Line Interface (AWSCLI) for PowerShell, and AWS Tools for Powershell that allow you to run AWS commands from powershell. You also have an AWS SDK for .NET that allows you to programmatically interact with AWS services.
You can get more info here: https://aws.amazon.com/powershell/
^^^
Mean Money Greene
Rising Star
So I am an IT PM by trade but I keep seeing hiring for SRE's everywhere. How do I make the transition to SRE?
Operations is not dead but rather concentrated to the big dogs:
Amazon is hiring SRE (Site Reliability Engineers)
Google is hiring SRE
Facebook is hiring Production Engineers
Microsoft is hiring SRE
Site Reliability Engineers (or SREs) are another name for what we call DevOps at my gig. It's basically the engineers who write the automation or orchestration code for SaaS based software.
It's software development, but not hard core backend C++ or Java programming. It's more like taking python and other scripting languages and build scripts and to build, deploy, and maintain distributed software especially software on the cloud.
It's not really replacing true full stack software development, but it's definitely a complimentary skill. The easiest way I can explain the difference would be with your typical banking app.
The people who add new features in an update to it are software developers. The people who make sure that the servers get deployed with the update, scale horizontally and send alerts when their's a problem are the DevOps engineers or SREs.
The unique thing about it is they don't just fix the problems that happen, they make it so those problems never happen again via automation and orchestration. That's why they have to have a developer mindset and not just the skills of a system admin or dba.
Continued bump for the info.
Good thread. If they are paying $150k, then how much are they making? Lawyer with a tech background (wrote html/perl/java code by hand in the late 90s for large companies and then went into project management before law school). Where do I fit in?
And my goal is to be an owner.
And my goal is to be an owner.
Jul 18, 2019 - https://aws.amazon.com/events/aws-innovate-2019/
AWS Innovate Online Conference is a free online event designed to inspire and educate executives and IT professionals about AWS. At AWS Innovate, you can learn how to build artificial intelligence (AI) applications and machine learning (ML) models, choose the right database, modernize your data warehouse and applications.
Whether you are new to AWS or an experienced user, you can learn something new at AWS Innovate. AWS Innovate is designed to help you develop the right skills to design, deploy, and operate infrastructure and applications.
We recognize customers are in many stages of their cloud adoption journey, from exploration to super-users and everything in between. This conference will enable you to maximize innovation with access to scalable and flexible infrastructure.
AWS Innovate Online Conference is a free online event designed to inspire and educate executives and IT professionals about AWS. At AWS Innovate, you can learn how to build artificial intelligence (AI) applications and machine learning (ML) models, choose the right database, modernize your data warehouse and applications.
Whether you are new to AWS or an experienced user, you can learn something new at AWS Innovate. AWS Innovate is designed to help you develop the right skills to design, deploy, and operate infrastructure and applications.
We recognize customers are in many stages of their cloud adoption journey, from exploration to super-users and everything in between. This conference will enable you to maximize innovation with access to scalable and flexible infrastructure.
figure out what tasks can be automated as you already know the legal domain.
Knowing:
1. The problems to be solved
2. The depth of pain i.e. the willingness for someone to pay for the problem to be solved
Those two are the critical pieces.
The technology used always changes over time but really get into the habit of brainstorm how you would solve problems (abstract away the technology).
Check this out:
https://www.lawsitesblog.com/2017/09/21-additions-list-legal-startups.html
https://outsideinsight.com/insights/4-ai-driven-lawtech-startups-changing-the-legal-landscape/
https://lexmachina.com/
https://www.judicata.com/
https://blog.judicata.com/introducing-clerk-848abbed8fd3
https://www.case-crunch.com/
https://startupheretoronto.com/type...how-courts-will-rule-on-employment-law-cases/
technology:
Use Elasticsearch and Kibana
