Skills to learn post RHCSA, and career paths.

[K_akash_i]

Ahoy,fellow digit people, I need some directions, please help me :] . My ex200 (rhcsa) is coming up on may 6th. been doing at least two regular practise lab exam sessions. Problem is I find them a bit easy (maybe ignorance, will find out) anyway i could do any task, without panicking which are within the objectives. At a very good pace as well. i have also completed the ansible course for rhce as well, which i will find some fund to attempt the rhce exam. What I'd like to know is what skills should i deepen such that i am desirable candidate for a junior linux admin position? Should i deepen my bash scripting? or podman? I don't want to go into unrelated topics (was learning ccna level topics from jeremy's IT before enrolling for rhcsa, got upto basic routing. This i found very useful).
Lastly something related to career progression. I have a tinge of pessimism towards the future of my own country (tho i am living at one of the least problematic places). I also looked up career options past the junior role. I found HPC engineers are rare and require alot of mastery, and they are in demand in sane countries (countries which are internally and externally at peace, filled with mostly rational people). And workplaces are mostly related to research and academia, which is more oriented towards knowledge acquisition and not more numbers. So what skills should i learn on my free time, while i am prepping for the exam. Currently i have nothing else to do. I love Linux & FOSS Philosophy, an archetype (my character) would be Rocket from GOG, tho i am a mere atom when compared to an imaginary genius, i am talking about being autonomous, that;s what i really crave. If my assumptions are wrong, tell me your POV, anything other than HPC that i should try?. (My degree is in literature tho, my +2 was CS, and i am 25 with no career and lost years :\).
Thank you in advance. Also don't mind me wandering to different things, all i need to know is how to set foot and where to progress.

 

[Desmond]

What I'd like to know is what skills should i deepen such that i am desirable candidate for a junior linux admin position? Should i deepen my bash scripting? or podman?

Both skills are necessary. Bash, Docker/Podman including compose, IaC tools like Terraform/OpenTofu/Ansible/Chef/Puppet. Also some cloud services (AWS/GCP/OpenShift, etc) knowledge would be useful.

Lastly something related to career progression. I have a tinge of pessimism towards the future of my own country (tho i am living at one of the least problematic places). I also looked up career options past the junior role. I found HPC engineers are rare and require alot of mastery, and they are in demand in sane countries

If you are looking for opportunities abroad, you could look up some career programs of some countries. For example, Finland has "Work In Finland" where you can apply and look to work there, though you will also have to check how much your skills are in demand there or anywhere else.

So what skills should i learn on my free time, while i am prepping for the exam. Currently i have nothing else to do. I love Linux & FOSS Philosophy, an archetype (my character) would be Rocket from GOG, tho i am a mere atom when compared to an imaginary genius, i am talking about being autonomous, that;s what i really crave. If my assumptions are wrong, tell me your POV, anything other than HPC that i should try?. (My degree is in literature tho, my +2 was CS, and i am 25 with no career and lost years :\).

I think cloud engineer role is viable. With the rise in the number of startups there will always be demand for cloud engineers. I'm not sure whether a RHCSA certification will help here, but you could also get a job as a system admin in some companies. However, there is a trend where companies with on-prem servers are slowly moving to the cloud, so having skills in the cloud would be the most viable in the long run.

 

[K_akash_i]

Both skills are necessary. Bash, Docker/Podman including compose, IaC tools like Terraform/OpenTofu/Ansible/Chef/Puppet. Also some cloud services (AWS/GCP/OpenShift, etc) knowledge would be useful.

If you are looking for opportunities abroad, you could look up some career programs of some countries. For example, Finland has "Work In Finland" where you can apply and look to work there, though you will also have to check how much your skills are in demand there or anywhere else.

I think cloud engineer role is viable. With the rise in the number of startups there will always be demand for cloud engineers. I'm not sure whether a RHCSA certification will help here, but you could also get a job as a system admin in some companies. However, there is a trend where companies with on-prem servers are slowly moving to the cloud, so having skills in the cloud would be the most viable in the long run.

thanks, I dont know about cloud, in future i want to work where i could isolate myself from all the corporate hooliganism (coming from someone who doesnt even have a job ). And also since the new trump regime, i have seen news'( not reliable since good news providers are rare ) of EU based companies wanting to shift away from aws, azure and such, tho some speculate this wont be an issue. Some companies are trying to create their own setup for their own sake. Tho i will certainly try to learn it, because learning each tool would be handy and there will be alternatives. Also I should focus on docker more right? while silently contribute to podman or other OSS tech. Since docker is the industry standard. I guess i will go for that.

Lastly the quote you have on your profile. In the current centralized surveilance driven world, how free can we be. Every day feels like more and more power is going to the top and people are silently suffering and distracting themselves. No one has time to think or react. Every citizen is treated as a prisoner whom the world should also keep an eye on. People are fighting for irrational topics (it has become mainstream), driving us away from what is necessary to do. The social media era has become a major force in making people zombies. People are giving into their violent primal sides. Brilliant reserarch papers are being used to make people even more addicted to their screens, addicted to junkfood, addicted to infinite consumption. Who is actually free? aren't we all boxed in?