Occupation of 370Z heads

houkouonchi · 08-20-2013, 04:03 PM

My title is 'Lab Manager'.

Probably does not mean much to people and is not what they would expect. No I do not work in the medical field =P

The Lab is around 14 racks of servers for the use of testing and development of an open source distributed/clustered file-system for linux. As the lab manager I am half developer half linux system-administrator. I am the only guy who actually administers the servers and I do all the automation stuff (creating vms, dns automation, backups, etc..).

I have been doing it about a year and definitely gained a lot of useful experience but it has been a lot of machines/work for one person. My last job I did for 6+ years was just a generic linux sysadmin working with a bunch of other sysadmins on a large team for a server farm of > 3000 servers which was significantly less stressful for about the same pay. I honestly enjoyed my previous job more but I feel this one has more potential.

Any other Linux guys on here?

08-20-2013, 04:03 PM	#1 (permalink)
houkouonchi Enthusiast Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Ontario, California Posts: 440 Drives: '14 GT-R '10 M6 370z Rep Power: 16	My title is 'Lab Manager'. Probably does not mean much to people and is not what they would expect. No I do not work in the medical field =P The Lab is around 14 racks of servers for the use of testing and development of an open source distributed/clustered file-system for linux. As the lab manager I am half developer half linux system-administrator. I am the only guy who actually administers the servers and I do all the automation stuff (creating vms, dns automation, backups, etc..). I have been doing it about a year and definitely gained a lot of useful experience but it has been a lot of machines/work for one person. My last job I did for 6+ years was just a generic linux sysadmin working with a bunch of other sysadmins on a large team for a server farm of > 3000 servers which was significantly less stressful for about the same pay. I honestly enjoyed my previous job more but I feel this one has more potential. Any other Linux guys on here?