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"Weren't the Mistrals a band in the '60s? Never heard of their song 7b, nah..."
This week we’ve got a guide to hardening 💪 your Linux distros; more YouTube video guides 📼 on NetDevOps; an IPAM for Azure VNETs 🪵; diving deep into VPC networking on AWS 🤿; coming to the end of your childhood 👨🌾 in your career; delving into the contents of the .git folder 👀; a non-cheese comparison of IaC involving tofu 🧀; not being worried about being late to the parAI 🤖 and a new essential book 📖 for you to master NetDevOps. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
NetEng 🔧
Linux Hardening Guide helps you take a stock Linux distro and harden it tougher than a 3 AM Router upgrade after a heavy night on the sauce 🍸
DevOps for Network Engineers - part deux (1h 4m) is the second part in the great series helping the NetOps get to grips 💪 with all this DevOps malarkey
A Framework for Automating Service and Network Management with YANG is a dry read, but helps explain why YANG exists and isn’t the same as YAML 🐪
Deep Dive - VPCs: A Guide for Network Engineers is part two of a great series covering Cloud Networking in the context of AWS for the on-prem NetEng ⛅︎
Azure IPAM is a lightweight solution that uses Azure to manage your Azure ontop of your Azure, dawg ⛓️💥
Hiring 💼
IT Infrastructure Engineer @ Lancashire County Council, Permie, £48k, UK, Preston
Staff Network Reliability Engineer @ Robinhood, Permie, USA, CA/NY/WA
⭐️ Network Architect @ CityFibre, Permie, UK, London (Hybrid) ⭐️
Senior Systems Engineer Smart Routing @ Cloudflare, Permie, USA (Remote)
Infrastructure Deployment Engineer @ Cloudflare, Permie, Portugal (Lisbon) or UK (London)
Network Engineer @ Pandora, Permie, Thailand, Bangkok
Network Development Engineer @ Amazon, Permie, USA, TX/TN/WA
IPU Software Product Manager Cloud and Networking @ Intel, Permie, $140k+, USA, TX/OR/CA/MA
Senior Technical Support Engineer @ Aryaka, India, Bengaluru
Principal Solutions Architect - Project Kuiper @ Amazon, Permie, Australia, Sydney
Lead Network Automation Engineer @ Johnson & Johnson, Permie, Belgium, Antwerp
Network Automation Solutions Developer @ Nokia, Permie, $43k, India, Bengaluru
Network Solutions Consultant @ Juniper, Permie, $102k+, USA (Remote)
Network and NetDevOps Engineer @ Airbus, Permie, France, Marseille
NetDevOps Packet Architect / Principal Engineer @ Internet2, Permie, $145k, USA, Remote
Expert NetDevOps Engineer @ Veradigm, Permie, USA (Remote)
Principal Network Backbone and Edge Engineer @ Roblox, Permie, $283k+, USA, San Mateo CA
Technical Solutions Engineer - NetDevOps @ Arista, Permie, Ireland, Shannon
NetDevOps Team Lead @ FullCtl, Contract, Remote
Senior Principal Network Architect, Core Architecture @ Equinix, UK, London
Senior Network Services Architect @ Bloomberg, Permie, USA, New York NY
Network Automation Engineer @ IP Fabric, Permie, EU (Remote)
NotEng 🤔
The end of my childhood talks sentimentally about leaving childhood behind and brings parallels from rite of passage into workplace career progression 🧐
AI and the automation of work ponders on where we are now with gen. AI versus where we were not too long back with the invention of the Personal Computer in the office setting 🕺
Inside .git is not as scary as you might think, but there is a whole other file system world in that tiny little folder… 🌍
Continuous Integration takes you through what CI is to the CD marriage, and why bothering with it is a thing, as well as what would happen if it weren’t (the olden days 🫣
You Are Not Late to Artificial Intelligence because the future is very rarely evenly-distributed; don’t forget, IBM still makes Mainframes 🧟
Comparing Open TOFU And Terraform which are “same but different” enough that if you don’t have kids, you might care about, but if you do, you’ll sleep better continuing to just
terraform apply
already 🧀
Events 📅
FutureNet World, London, 16-17 April 2024
AWS Summit, London, 24 April 2024
DTX Manchester, Manchester, 22 - 23 May 2024
AutoCon 1, Amsterdam, 27 - 31 May 2024
InfoSec Europe, London, 4 - 6 June 2024
Industry 🏭
Linux could have been brought down by backdoor found in widely used utility which we were late on the bandwagon because we couldn’t alias
zip
forxz
already, cmon, compress! 🪗GigaOm Radar for NetDevOps v3 both legitimises the term “NetDevOps” and gives a bit of (albeit paywall’d) insight into the Network Automation ecosystem 🥴
Ethernet advances will end Nvidia's InfiniBand lead in AI networks and we guarantee some of you think InfiniBand is a new thing, wait to be disappointed when you find out… 🕳️
Google Cloud - Choosing a Network Connectivity product is a handy guide to navigating the several and many networking option in them there GCP Cloud hills ⛳️
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 💬.