Programmers with network engineering skills

Tue Feb 28 13:23:52 UTC 2012

Rodrick, give me the name of one of those firms.  :)

Ralph Brandt

-----Original Message-----
From: Rodrick Brown [mailto:rodrick.brown at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 6:13 PM
To: A. Pishdadi
Cc: NANOG
Subject: Re: Programmers with network engineering skills

On Feb 26, 2012, at 8:27 PM, "A. Pishdadi" <apishdadi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
> 
> i have been looking for quite some time now a descent coder (c,php)
who has
> a descent amount of system admin / netadmin experience. Doesn't
necessarily
> need to be an expert at network engineering but being acclimated in
> understanding the basic fundamentals of networking. Understanding
basic
> routing concepts, how to diagnose using tcpdump / pcap, understanding
> subnetting and how bgp works (not necessarily setting up bgp). I've
posted
> job listings on the likes of dice and monster and have not found any
good
> canidates, most of them ASP / Java guys.
> 
> If anyone can point me to a site they might recommend for job postings
or
> know of any consulting firms that might provide these services that
would
> be greatly appreciated.

Good Luck guys like these are being scooped up by large financial firms
and hedgefunds and they don't come cheap  ~$250k easy! 