Workshop 5: System Administration Skill Tiers

LISA: Where systems engineering and operations professionals share real-world knowledge about designing, building, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.

The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The LISA14 program recognized the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, and developed a highly-curated program around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics. The program included 22 half- and full-day training sessions; 10 workshops; and a conference program consisting of 50 invited talks, panels, refereed paper presentations, and mini-tutorials.

Workshop
Monday, November 10, 2014 - 9:00am-12:30pm

Madrona Room

Matt Disney, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Abstract: 

This will be a half-day fast-paced, hackathon-style intensive effort to develop a series of modern system administration job skill tiers. The outcome will be the foundation of a flexible set of skills that map to more general system administration job functions (e.g. skills required for user support, server operations, server deployment, service architecture, etc). Progress from this workshop will carry over into an online community where work will continue to define a flexible set of skill tiers for system administrators. Attendees should have some familiarity with prior discussions on the topic, e.g. “Job Descriptions for System Administrators” from the USENIX LISA SIG Short Topics in System Administration series.

BibTeX
@conference {209009,
author = {Matt Disney},
title = {Workshop 5: System Administration Skill Tiers},
year = {2014},
address = {Seattle, WA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = nov
}
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