There has recently been a reorg in my company and I have been moved from DevOps to Infrastructure. I have ONLY been working on cloud so this is a huge switch to work on prem. I expressed my concerns to my manager who says that they wanted at least a set of younger members to learn data center stuff. The Infastructure team is a merge of systems and in parts of devops, as there are other members on the team who havent worked in data centers before. But vice versa, the infrastructure team will also manage aws, so the sys team is lost on that. I personally believe that having data center experience might be useful but i dont want to be the weak link. Its hard to find accessible material. Also seems like trying to get a ccna cert is virtually impossible through just study. Are there other avenues to learn? Is infrastructure good as a career path? Tc 150 4yoe
Most of this stuff will and can only be learned on the job. CCNA will teach you all of the networking fundamentals that you will need and goes a long way. I think you’re doing fine. Just dive in and get exposed to every thing you can. The higher level Cisco certs will be more handy if you want to specialize in networking further and need to know the Cisco IOS in and out. But ya this is what I’d call traditional infra, not a bad career path at all, the Cloud wouldn’t exist without it. Just do what you enjoy.
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I've been in infrastructure my whole career (8+ YOE) and have been working in cloud for 4-5 years now (solutions architect now) and its 99.9% applicable to cloud platforms. I mean the cloud runs on a datacenter infra platform so... Especially with devops, im surprised you dont see the correlation between the two.
Understood, but i have no experince with data racks, fiber cable routing, etc. I undedstand high level stuff like DR on boxes, firewall, hpc, but not implementation on physical hardware
Thats okay. Networking is usually a separate org anyways, though very much fundamental. Are you just strugging with networking? Or other parts of infra like virtualization/server, server OS, shared storage etc (sys admin stuff) too?