I notice in the past two years of searching Monster / Linkedin / Dice and most other various job posting sites, I never see a position or offering for a Jr. DBA. When I started my career as a Linux System Administrator, I was a Jr. after being in technical support for 2 years. I was working under a Sr. Linux guy who showed me a lot of cool things you just can't get from online training or certs.
I still love Linux and find it an essential building block / skill in IT however I have a huge passion for Databases and find PostgreSQL to be a really stable and exciting platform to learn. Sadly I'm not skilled enough yet to use triggers, stored procedures, or complex constraint checks and more...but eventually hope to learn.
Is there a way you guys suggest I can get some real RDBMS experience? Any reason why the only paid / technical positions I can find are Sr. DBA's or Architects? Do companies generally just have a programmer of some kind work w/ the DBA and shift them into a Jr. DBA role?
I still love Linux and find it an essential building block / skill in IT however I have a huge passion for Databases and find PostgreSQL to be a really stable and exciting platform to learn. Sadly I'm not skilled enough yet to use triggers, stored procedures, or complex constraint checks and more...but eventually hope to learn.
Is there a way you guys suggest I can get some real RDBMS experience? Any reason why the only paid / technical positions I can find are Sr. DBA's or Architects? Do companies generally just have a programmer of some kind work w/ the DBA and shift them into a Jr. DBA role?