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Best: Ned Stark - calm, patient, honourable. Worst: So many to choose from...

Samwell Tarly - Constantly learning and can apply that knowledge effectively

Ah I thought I was doing well up until this question. I don't watch Game of Thrones. Brings back unwanted memories of my childhood - a question I'll have to skip :(

A Song of Ice and Fire. Winter is coming = DevOps is coming ?

I'm going with Arya Stark! She has so many skills and faces, she can adapt to any situation - FAST!

Jon Snow - aims to do what is right, collaborative, for the greater good, servant leader. Probably the best DevOps advocate.

"That's what I do. I drink, and I know things" -- Tyrion Lanister

Jon Snow - When all hope is lost, he always finds that small glimmer of hope to inspire and motivate everyone around him!

I miss the days when everyone was hooked on "Friends", but like DevOps we must embrace change and with that in mind... I will start watching Game of Thrones.

Worst: Joffrey Baratheon - It's about him, doesn't care about anybody or anything else. Was anybody sad when he was written off?

@fazanhabibIT " How you doin' ? "

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Sansa as the worst - always whingeing !

IT Job Watch shows that the number of Junior DevOps vacancies in the UK have more than trebled between 2015 – 2017 but we don’t need the stats, we’ve seen this from experience.

Gartner’s Market Trends now state – ‘digital business makes the adoption of DevOps essential’. Many companies see DevOps as core to their digital transformation plans.

Today high performing organisations want to deliver quality software faster, more efficiently, in a safe and secure manner. Finding people with the sense of community, culture, and competency to enable is hard.

Businesses need to take a sustainable approach to building new capability so they have the right skills not just for today but for tomorrow.

For @AutomationLogic product development, a blend of junior and senior skilled engineers is the best fit. “Growing our own” with an Academy has been a rewarding way of instilling the necessary values, processes, culture, and technical competency.

An open mind, a willingness to learn, a willingness to teach - an appreciation of the ‘big picture’.

Acknowledgment DevOps is about people and process, just as much as it is about technology. A book titled “The Phoenix Project” is the perfect representation of this - highly recommended

With 15 years in the game, I’ve seen many changes - and no doubt more will come. I’ve recognised that understanding ideas and concepts is more useful than specific technologies.

So although specifics matter, it’s better to hire for a candidate’s aptitude to learn and grow rather than an un-nuanced list of technology skills.

From a technical standpoint, generalist skills across a broad range of technologies from automation tools (chef, puppet..) to cloud (azure, AWS…) to continuous integration like Jenkins…

An ability to not spoil Game of Thrones episodes for those who aren't so up-to-date...

A desire to always be learning new things, not to be satisfied with the status quo

Skills can be learned. Values at important: Curiosity to always be learning, humility to consider other points of view, integrity to speak your mind and do what's right, collaboration in a blame-free working style.

From my experience, a broad technical background with a consultative attitude, able to explain technical concepts to any audience.

Experienced engineers may not have the time or space to upskill in their current roles. Automation in tech should help create the space to learn new skills.

DevOps is still relatively new, but becoming very topical in the IT industry. Over 750 of the fortune 1000 companies are expected to adopt DevOps by 2018. Demand is outstripping supply.

Agree with the above. Demand is soaring and supply simply hasn’t caught up. DevOps skills are still few and far between in today’s market. Salaries and daily rates are increasing, training internal staff is (very) costly…

Because DevOps is so new, graduates fresh out of university have never heard of the field DevOps. It has only been about app/web development, but never about deployment.

It’s always best to embrace change. New ways of working are inevitable. Despite fears that Robots will rule the world, UK unemployment (overall) is at its lowest since 1975. There have been many technological advances since then...

Automating mundane tasks leaves room to take on more exciting and complex challenges.

Automation is a key element to achieving the benefits of DevOps. Fear of automation and job loss is always very topical in the media. This must be addressed head on. Communication and training are key. Get on top of the wave, not under it.

Also, expect the fear of change on any such activity - plan to address it proactively with good communications

Re-skilling or up-skilling employees is something organizations can do. Both to preserve jobs and to do more with the same number of employees, due to increased productivity as a result of automation.

Proactive upskilling, keeping ahead of the changes and giving employees a chance to learn and grow with the lightning fast pace of the world of tech.

Hodor

Ok, real answer... Hiring is often not the best route to skills acquisition, especially when skills are scarce. Organisations need to look at new ways to secure the right talent.

Clients can explore re-skilling existing staff but this can be timely and costly, a trainer would also need to be sourced with the right level of skills.

DevOps tooling is not presently taught (to my knowledge) as part of the national curriculum at the moment. Organisations need to adopt new methods to bridge the gap for graduates seeking to enter the industry.

we found it difficult to recruit people with the appropriate skills and alignment to a collaborative culture, community, and sense of curiosity (always be learning). So we decided to “grow our own”.

Using a tried & tested recruitment process is critical to make new hires share company values & have the right profiles to succeed. AL has experienced a v.high success rate and means we have the confidence to take those who graduate on FT

Given years of experience in the field and knowing what @AutomationLogic needs, we created a course syllabus that aligns to our values, collaborative nature, and skills competency.

DevOps and automation go hand-in-hand. Automating the mundane activities to “deliver quality software, faster, more efficiently, in a safe and secure manner” allows DevOps teams to focus on continuous improvement opportunities -- reducing technical debt.

No. Automation of tasks such as testing should lead to better quality deployments reducing the risk of human error and poorly designed code. But DevOps alone won’t eliminate technical debt - it must be planned in and accounted for.

There are no silver bullets. However DevOps, if done right, can help with turn around times and free up resources which could be reused to pay down technical debt.

From my understanding most technical debt is down to "unplanned work" which disrupts actual work from being completed. DevOps alone can't tackle this problem, but it does help to reduce technical debt via its collaborative approach

Working with latest technologies!

Arcade Games & a fully stocked Beer Fridge ;)

A place they know they can make a difference and actually put their own ideas into practice.

Complex challenges. Variety. Empowerment. Blame-free cultures.

As an engineer, flexible working, good working relationships with peers and management, a high level of autonomy and interesting challenges, are all important to me. Automation Logic offers me all of this.

Typically, engineers want to work hard and be challenged. Communicating the goals and impact of DevOps roles makes a difference.

I believe everybody needs to feel they’re making a difference; contributing to the mission. We all want to be part of the solution for the greater good. This must be fostered in any workplace.