Programmers with network engineering skills

Tue Feb 28 01:07:14 UTC 2012

On 2/27/2012 7:53 PM, William Herrin wrote:
>> I think you're more likely to find a network engineer with (possibly limited)
>> >  programming 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?  If your work requires it, you should 
have some recourse for applicants to obtain the required clearance, no?

/Jason