Multicloud? Nah, we're multilingual
Speed tests don't troubleshoot Wi-Fi; Network Automation is digital transformation; FAQ on repatriating your Cloud; Cisco buys another company and jobs galore
This week we speak three languages 🏳️🌈; subnet in IPv6 without throwing up 🤮; debunk Tech Debt 💸; watch SSH get weaker ⛓ and check our salary expectations against the rest 🩲. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
NetEng 🔧
Subnetting in IPv6 because you can relive trauma from IPv4 in the new v6 world too 🤪
Three Essential Languages of the Modern Network Engineer that aren’t “crying”, “memes” or “Chinese” (big up Huawei CLI 🇨🇳, we feel you 版本)
Why speed tests aren’t always the answer when troubleshooting Wi-Fi networks because (latency + jitter) > bandwidth 🚇
How automation is driving network engineer skills transformation is a long white paper read from Cisco, but worth chucking under your CxO’s nose 🐽 as food for thought
Kill the CLI or at least make it consistent make-it-consistent, (big up Cisco, couldn’t stick to “show mac-address table” when you could “show mac address-table” too eh? 🤬)
Hiring 💼
⭐ NetDevOps Team Lead @ FullCtl, Contract, Remote ⭐
Senior Network Services Architect @ Bloomberg, Permie, USA, New York NY
Principal Network Reliability Engineer @ Oracle, Permie, USA Austin TX
Senior Network Reliability Engineer @ Oracle, Permie, USA Austin TX
Director of Solution Architecture @ IP Fabric, Permie, USA, Boston MA
Packet Network & Systems Architect @ Colt, Permie, Spain, Madrid
Network Development Lead @ AWS, Permie, UK, London
Senior Network Operations Engineer @ Google, Permie, UK (Remote), SC/NSV Clearance
Network Automation Engineer @ IP Fabric, Permie, EU (Remote)
Network Automation Engineer via Sterlings, Permie, £80k+, UK, Camberley/Bromley/Chester
Network Automation Engineer FinTech via Hamilton Barnes, Permie, £200k+, UK, London
Technical Consultant (Automation and DevOps) @ Nomios, Permie, UK, Basingstoke
Network Automation Engineer @ Pico, Permie, UK, London (Hybrid)
Network Deployment Engineer @ Cloudflare, Permie, UK, London
NotEng 🤔
The Big Cloud Exit FAQ on cloud repatriation and running your own baremetal 👙 again
SSH protects the world’s most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker in a cool-named attack called Novel Terrapin (no, not the Terraform 🍴 thing - that’s OpenTofu…)
Technical Debt is not real it’s just called “moment in time” ⏰ and shows progress linearly
Levels.fyi End of Year Pay Report 2023 is worth a browse to see if you’re being paid fairly for your 🔨 pipe work
Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays is helpful 💡 for NetOps and NetEng alike too
Events 📅
Cisco Live! Europe, Amsterdam, 5-9 February 2024
MPLS SD & AI Net World Congress, Paris, 9 -11 April 2024
AutoCon 1, tbc Europe, 27-31 May 2024
Industry 🏭
Defining the Future of Multicloud Networking and Security: Cisco Announces Intent to Acquire Isovalent the Cisco buying spree 🤩 continues
The hyperloop is dead for real this time and we never got a chance to see if it accepts Split Ticketing 🎟 either…
NetDevOps on Azure from the Microsoft Community on how Azure thinks about DevOps in their Cloud ☁
That’s all for this week, but if you have any tip-offs, blogs, events or job posts you’d like us to feature then please feel free to let us know at newsletter@reloadin.net 📮 and we’ll see if we can add them in 💬.