Sysadmin Careers

You definitely can, that's how I got into sysadmin jobs :)

As a developer with practically no sysadmin skills, how would I go about improving these skills?

Is my career doomed if I don't become a sysadmin?

Join a small company or startup where they don't have dedicated Sysadmin/server/devops people. Now you could do it all for them.

> It was the same thing with switching to Linux, where I have a more personal relationship with my laptop because I've taken the time and effort to care for it.Don't suggest this to a sysadmin. OS religious arguments aside, sysadmins don't want to take time to "care" for machines any more than they have to :)To the OP: What if you tried to get into DevOps or System administration? Futzing around with hardware and OS level stuff may be something just different enough for you to get back

What about moving into sys admin / devops?

Nominally, sysadmin for various startups, got trapped 18 years ago. Now a voice of reason and experience but still a sysadmin mostly.

Will do. Briefly, been a sysadmin for 11+ years and worked my way up the ladder. Have various certifications but honestly most/all of this can be learned on-line nowadays. Working at a mega corp looking after High Performance Compute (HPC) infrastructure. Think labs across the country + scientists needing HPC to do their research.

would be interested to hear your learning experience in sysadmin.

I do too. I am sysadmin. Maybe 20 years' sysadmin. I don't even think i make it as a sysadmin (e.g. i don't know which ip are 172.20.157.97/27 off hand...). I write some bash scripts (omg i actually test whats $0/1/2/3...ahahahaha)... Thats about it. I don't know how i still get by in this job! I mean surely every freshgrad knows all this stuff that i always google for! On the other hand I've also seen the opposite. Like mail admins that ask me to ad