Where are all the datacenter jobs?

Posted by criticalseeweed@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 9 comments

I came up managing servers in data centers. Once AWS went mainstream I moved into DevOps and no longer miss the days of swapping out hard drives and carving out LUNs from a SAN. I gotta say I kinda miss it but I say that because I'm a manager now. :)

Curious but where are all the jobs now that most folks move to the cloud? I suppose at some point in my career I'd like to go back to managing an environment with physical servers, I had a lot more fun back then. Anyone else feel the same way?

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eastamerica@reddit

In the cloud 😏

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Outrageous-Insect703@reddit

Lots of datacenter (eg AWS) offshore … less need for large on prem datacenter staffing

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G2een@reddit

How’d you make the jump from datacenter work into devops?

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cmack@reddit

Yes. I built onprem clouds in the datacenter which could also burst to the public cloud, but I am seven years out from that time now which I did for roughly ten years. Was the best time of my life. IT sucks now.

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Dranea_egg_breakfast@reddit

There’s still data centers, wherever the cloud host is or anyone who has stuff they can’t migrate to the cloud.

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criticalseeweed@reddit (OP)

Yes I realized they still exist but I don't notice the jobs anymore.

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SilentSamurai@reddit

Because it's low tech work. Many of the places are now "we'll maintain the environment & for money we'll do the most basic server maintenance/troubleshooting but at the end of the day you're supporting your hardware/software if it bellies up."

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Dranea_egg_breakfast@reddit

I see stuff for AWS and Azure data centers every now and then, but more on the gov contract side of the house