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Career tools

The stuff nobody tells you in cert prep — laid out plainly.

Cert roadmap
  • CompTIA: A+ → Network+ → Security+
  • Cisco: CCNA → CCNP Enterprise / Security
  • Cloud: AWS SAA → Azure AZ-104 → GCP ACE
  • Linux: LFCS → RHCSA → RHCE
Salary benchmarks
  • levels.fyi — infra / SRE comp
  • Glassdoor — sysadmin & netadmin
  • Robert Half tech salary guide
  • BLS occupational data (US)
Resume tips
  • Lead with impact: outages prevented, MTTR cut, $$ saved
  • Quantify scale: # endpoints, # sites, throughput, users
  • Name the stack: vendors, protocols, tooling — be specific
  • 1 page until staff/principal — recruiters skim
Job boards worth checking
  • weworkremotely.com — sysadmin / devops
  • /r/sysadmin job thread
  • Dice & Indeed (filtered for in-house, not consulting)
  • Company careers pages (always > aggregators)
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