A while back I wrote about an upcoming certification people receive from passing the Linux Foundation Exam. Now that it is available, I’m circling back as promised with more information. For those unfamiliar, this certification is specifically targeted at people who are newer to their IT career or just launching it. The goal is to […]
How to Build a Highly Qualified Cloud-Native Team
If you’re reading this, you more than likely are aware of the struggles involved in recruiting and building a team of technical professionals skilled in cloud-native computing technologies such as Kubernetes, Helm, Prometheus and service mesh. The Linux Foundation and edX’s “2020 Open Source Jobs Report” found 93% of hiring managers are having difficulties filling […]
Survey Sees Surge in Demand for DevOps Skills
The Linux Foundation and edX, a provider of an online learning platform, jointly released an annual report today that for the first time finds organizations are looking for more IT personnel with open source DevOps skills (65%) than developers (59%). Clyde Seepersad, senior vice president and general manager for training and certification at The Linux […]
Eliminating Unconscious Bias in Tech Recruitment
For a more diverse workforce, businesses need to be aware of the role of unconscious bias in recruitment and take the necessary steps to remove it where possible The business case for diverse organizations is clear: A more diverse and inclusive business consistently delivers better results. From a legal perspective, with a variety of discrimination […]
Despite Downturn, Enterprise IT Budgets Remain Intact
A survey of 137 IT operations leaders at companies in the U.S with at least 500 employees and an annual IT budget in excess of $5 million finds a surprising amount of resiliency at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Conducted April 1 by OpsRamp, a provider of IT operations tools, the survey finds more […]
DevOps Hiring: What Do You Need?
IT has long had a problem with hiring. I’m not certain where it started; most of us blame HR, and that’s probably incorrect, but gives us someone to blame. It’s that we post jobs with insane requirements. Sometimes this is done to keep the applicant pool down, but most of the time it is a […]
The Value of ‘DevOps Engineer’ as a Title
Now that DevOps is proliferating in the enterprise (many companies including Disney, Nike and Walmart, for example, are all on the adoption train) the term is starting to creep up more and more in job titles. This is challenging organizations to consider the significance of DevOps Engineer as a role and the value of having […]
Do Your Engineers Need a Degree? If So, You’re Missing Out on Great Hires
For more than a decade, tech team leads have lamented the fact that software engineers are among the toughest jobs to fill. But in some ways, their frustration is self-inflicted. It is almost a given that a lack of higher education represents a deal-breaker for hiring decision-makers. The same goes for job seekers—it can feel […]
Reinventing Talent Acquisition, DevOps Style: 7 Ways to Become a ‘Destination Company’
Just as brilliant drummers have their pick of bands, top cloud-native developers and project managers can be choosy about their employers. They’re the rock stars of the business and they know it. If you’re not a “destination company” like Amazon, Facebook or Google, how do you entice top talent to work for you? And if […]
Age or Experience: Which is Better in Hiring a DevOps Engineer?
In such a rapidly shifting space as the DevOps talent market, many employers find themselves challenged with deciding what type of DevOps engineer to hire. Do I choose the junior talent with all the energy in the world and is eager to learn anything at the click of a deployment? Or, do I push the […]