Re:Maslow's Hierarchy of Site Reliability Engineering Needs ...
by alrs on Tuesday December 27, 2016 @08:33PM
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In my early sysadmin years I knew absolutely nothing about algorithms while untangling infrastructure messes spawned by the educated. Most of the good ops people were scratch-and-dent smart people who came to the field without the benefit of any kind of CS education.
OS + linux internals + reliable systems = 3 non trivial skills, harder to find and more expensive. The combination is definitely rare.
> Breaking out the roles and trying to hire for all of them helps ensure you don't get blindspots.
If you break out the skills and hire for them independently. You'll end up with a lot of people with the common skills and barely anyone with the rarer skills and the ability to train them to others.
I agree with getting people with different strengths together. It's a NP-complete hiring problem though.