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eitallyyesterday at 2:51 PM2 repliesview on HN

They actually are abundantly available and many are looking for work. The volume of "enterprise IT" sysadmin labor dwarfs that of the population of "big tech" employees and cloud architects.


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organsnyderyesterday at 3:07 PM

I've worked with many "enterprise IT" sysadmins (in healthcare, specifically). Some are very proficient generalists, but most (in my experience) are fluent in only their specific platforms, no different than the typical AWS engineer.

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torginusyesterday at 3:55 PM

Yeah, anyone who has >10 years experience with servers/backend dev has almost certainly managed dedicated infra.