Accelerating Your Career with OpenStack

Scott SanchezDirector of Strategy@scottsanchez

Niki AcostaCloud Evangelista@nikiacosta

Just sayin’….

“Public and private IT cloud services will produce nearly 14 million jobs worldwide by 2015.” GLOBAL CLOUD SCORECARD 2013

“There are 1.7 million open cloud jobs worldwide that organizations are having a tough time filling.” DECEMBER 2012

Right place, right time!

Cloudstack Eucalyptus OpenStack®0

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OPEN CLOUD JOB POSTINGS - US

October 2012

10/16/12 & 04/15/2013 & 06/10/13

277% increase over 8 months

OpenStack 101 Revisited

PRETEND THIS IS A SERVER

We now interrupt this broadcast to bring you some

words from a (grey-haired) old school Linux dude…

(Actual photo)

Pets versus Cattle

Slide courtesy of CERN

Why is true automation possible now?

How does this help me?

If you’re looking…

MORE ON JOBS…

TOP POSITIONS

ADMINISTRATOR

ARCHITECTD.C OPERATIONS

NETWORK ENGINEERENGINEERPYTHON

DEVELOPER

SALARIES FOR OPENSTACK POSITIONS ARE HIGHER THAN INDUSTRY AVERAGES BY 13%

TOP COUNTRIESUNITED STATES

UNITED KINGDOMINDIA

CANADACHINA

RUSSIA

WHO’S HIRING?

If you’re an employer…

Support Your Innovators

Source: Dice employer survey, March 2011.

Take Care of Your Talent

Source: Dice survey of tech professionals, June 2011.

Invest in Training…

…And Automate All the Things!

OpenStack.org/join & participate!

Questions?

@nikiacosta @scottsanchez