[150581] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Programmers with network engineering skills
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Mon Feb 27 20:16:04 2012
In-Reply-To: <4F4C28C2.9000706@i6ix.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:15:10 -0800
From: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
To: Jason Bertoch <jason@i6ix.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Jason Bertoch <jason@i6ix.com> wrote:
> On 2/27/2012 7:53 PM, William Herrin wrote:
>>>
>>> I think you're more likely to find a network engineer with (possibly
>>> limited)
>>> > =A0programming skills.
>>
>> I wish. For the past three months I've been trying to find a network
>> engineer with a deep TCP/IP protocol understanding, network security
>> expertise, some Linux experience, minor programming skill with sockets
>> and a TS/SCI clearance.
>
>
> Is clearance the problem, or the ability to obtain clearance due to
> something in their background? =A0If your work requires it, you should ha=
ve
> some recourse for applicants to obtain the required clearance, no?
My understanding is that while primary and subcontractor companies can
put people in the sponsoring organization's clearance granting queue,
it takes so long to get someone through the queue that for high-level
positions they essentially make having the clearance already a
prerequisite.
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-george william herbert
george.herbert@gmail.com
