Employers Want More Open Source Workers, Says Linux Foundation Study (zdnet.com)

As in past years, "Open source is professionalizing, and employers are seeking staff with demonstrable skills," says the executive director of the Linux Foundation, describing the results of a new study with Dice.com. An anonymous reader quotes ZDNet: According to the two groups' 2017 Open Source Jobs Survey and Report, "Not only do 89 percent of hiring managers report difficulty in finding qualified talent for open source roles, but 58 percent report needing to hire more open source professionals in the next six months than in the six months prior"... Seventy percent of employers, up from 66 percent in 2016, are hunting for workers with cloud experience. Web technologies placed second, with 67 percent of hiring managers hunting for workers with JavaScript and related skills. This is up five percent from last year's 62 percent. The demand for Linux talent remains strong. Sixty-five percent of hiring managers are looking for Linux experts. That's down slightly from 2016's 71 percent.
The three most common positions that they're looking to fill are developer, DevOps engineer, and systems administrator, according to the study, and "a growing number of companies (60 percent) are looking for full-time hires, compared with 53 percent last year.

"Nearly half (47 percent) of companies will pay for employees to become open-source certified."

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Difficulty in finding quality talent? Bullshit.

[nctritech]

"89 percent of hiring managers report difficulty in finding qualified talent for open source roles"

When your job ad demands 7-10 years of experience in a thing that isn't even 10 years old then yeah, you might have some difficulty "finding quality talent" because you're being ridiculous.

Job ad bullet points are used as filters and do a great job (ha!) of filtering out all of the ideal candidates in favor of the ones that will gladly lie about their skill sets yet can't write anything more trivial than strcpy() on a whiteboard. Maybe you stop looking for "workers with cloud experience" and start looking for "workers that have great system administration skills who we'll train to use the specific 'cloud' thingy we're using this month." After all, what these job posts that demand a "hit the ground running" candidate fail to realize is that they have to train the new employee in the operations and peculiarities unique to their business anyway.

Pay a decent wage and write realistic job applications and give everyone who applies in earnest a fair shake and you might not have so much "difficulty finding quality talent."

the title that just wont die

[nimbius]

developer: write code. gotcha.

systems administrator: write scripts, config management, handle infra. gotcha.

DevOps engineer do neither. Write code in a shitty open floorplan office, get hounded for using noise cancelling headphones and working from home, endure nerf fights and microbrew on a tuesday because the CEO decided the devs were too gloomy for his investors to look at, and the burndown didnt matter anyway. Break incessantly from your coding job to go play sysadmin poorly. get overbooked to ops meetings, burn out and quit.

seriously, devops is a cancer. it only makes to @botchagalupe who uses it as a vehicle to pay the mortgage. It pisses off sysadmins by turning shit like NTP into a fragile 'microservice' of hypervisors and poorly documented ruby layers. it pisses off devs by making them take an oncall shift for an OS theyve only ever deployed to.