I work closely with our security lead, we have a pretty good laugh. Always gives me a bit of shit over my patching being behind haha
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I’ve worked for worse.
I was made to re-order, paginate, desks on a website for about 2 months, for absolutely no reason we had product filters.
having to dev the front end to fitted on HIS giant wide Samsung screen properly.
Literally built a fool proof ordering system but had an admin call, questioning if customers had selected the right colour fabric (there were swatches on the site)
So many many more
I did opsec and netsec for a few years and got bored. A lot of it can just be monitoring and developing better monitoring tools. Eventually I left and got into commerce consultancy.
The plus side of security work is that you’re going to have better job security usually
What would be like a good course to start?
I got into it with a CCNA (cisco certified network administrator). Once I was network security I shifted to operations with on the job training (experience)
Network stuff is a decent place to start and the Cisco courses are the industry standard for that
There’s probably really different paths into those kind of roles now though. This was over a decade ago
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I hired a Data Engineer recently for a Fraud Prevention focused Security vendor.
Tech: Cloud Engineering space (ideally Azure), Airflow, Python, PySpark/Numpty. Ideally from a Computer Science or Mathematical degree background.
£110k base salary Salary + Bonus + Corp Benefits (private healthcare etc) UK based role.
this sentence gives me PTSD
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oh interesting you guys care about degrees? we had that conversation on here a few months ago i think
when i was a sysad in a team of about 30, i think maybe me and one other person had computer science degrees. everyone else had professional certificates (cisco, linux institute, red hat, cloud certs etc.etc.etc.)
do talent teams care about degrees now? i’d rather hire someone with professional certs in specific areas than a general comp sci
Not always… With that particular client, the Head of Data Science came from quite an academic background and the team he’d built around him were all of that ilk.
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Please elaborate
Reading the replies has got me looking at Cybersecurity again, apparently my current IT background would be a good start and I’m not as far behind as I first thought
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fair enough i suppose
We closed a Solution Architect role recently in Germany where there were no degree requirements, but they had to have CKA (Certified Kubernetes Administrator) status.
Interesting role that one, because we needed to find someone with the techie and soft skills, as it is a very customer facing position.
Basically setting up and making the software work for the customer and their tech stack after the Account Executive has closed the deal.
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mate as someone who is a tech with soft skills it’s so funny how easy i find it to get work. so many good techs seem to be utterly incapable of holding a conversation with a customer. we had such difficult hiring in my last job for people who could deal with phone calls it was insane
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They’re really hard to find!
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when I used to be a support guy it was disgusting the way some of the techs talked to the people that called in
I have done bits of CMS work for various people large and small, and the mount of times I’ve had to make things look god awful for 99% of the user base, just to appease Brenda who uses a tiny laptop running IE with the text set to 200%
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Oi the best one was to try and make it fit properly on a 80" Microsoft Surface that could only run edge. (Same company) Honestly I laughed when I was asked, then was told it was a serious request.
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Can we have a call haha
There’s some free ones on here:
Any worthwhile?
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