Information systems
An IT person who is specialized in information system technologies, he lives with a question such as “How does it work”, he likes to go deeply inside the digital things. The main job for this guy is to take care of infrastructure layer in IT, starting from Data center equipment, to the high level Operating systems, Storage, Cloud and other infrastructure service.
Systems Engineering tracks
There are many tracks in this field, as it covers the big portion of IT environment and infrastructure, the following section will explain the most attractive tracks that have high market demand,
Technical Support, Help Desk
The primarily start for an IT specialist, who has an excellent computer user experience, and able to support others, this person has the capabilities to solve his computer issues, and for his friends and others. He can start his career by some only the technical background he has during schools, although the certificate for this position is not too much it’s better to prove your skills and organize your knowledge by taking one or more from the following entry level training and certificates:
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ICDL (International Computer Driver license
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CompTIA A+
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MTA (Microsoft Technology Associate)
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CompTIA IT Fundamental
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MCSA: Windows 10 or Office
MS Windows Engineer/IS Administrator
This position mainly related to most of Microsoft Windows Server Operating system and its infrastructure services, such as Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, VPN, etc… He is also working other IT related application to manage the Data Center and IT environment such as backup servers, Storage, Server’s Monitoring tools, plus an advanced MS Product such as MS Exchange, MS Windows Clustering, MS SQL Administration,
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MCSE Cloud: Platform and infrastructure
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MCSE Productivity
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CompTIA Server+
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MCSA Windows Servers
Linux System Engineer
Open Source Specialist is a special one, who believes and loves open source, this field is becoming highly required as most of the companies are looking for open source tools and become publicly accepted in most of the enterprises, and small business. The open source guy is open, smart, love to build everything from scratch, work independently, he is not vendor oriented, but it’s also important to prove your knowledge by holding one of the following certificates
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CompTIA Linux+
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LPI
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RHCSA
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RHCE
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Oracle Linux
Cloud Specialist
Cloud Computing and virtualization specialist is considered as a new position, that is created based on the high demand and transformation to cloud by most of the organization. The cloud computing requires systems engineering experiences, and the are many options to select your specialization in cloud computing, as some big name of vendors how are leading the cloud computing technology.
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VMware certificates
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MS Hypervisor and Cloud certificates
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Red Hat Virtualization and Cloud Certificates
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OpenStack Cloud certificates (offered by many vendors)
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Oracle Virtualization certificates
Storage Admin
The storage admin is very critical position and it requires deep experience in systems infrastructure and advanced knowledge in SAN (Storage area network) usually this position can be combined with other systems engineering positions and backup systems expertise , there is a high demand on this position as the storage requirement increased and SAN technology exists in most of companies, the certificates usually are vendor based Certificate based the Company manufacturing the storage. such as
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EMC Storage Admin
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Oracle Storage Admin
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HP Storage Admin
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NetApp Storage Admin