[HTCondor-users] Training new cluster SysAdmins

[Matthew T West <m.t.west@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To those who maintain infrastructure,

What materials do you use to train new members of staff on your team?

I understand if folks spend money on RedHat or LPI training sessions & 
exams. What I am interested in are the things that make working in 
research computing different than standard enterprise server farm.

Academic IT departments, including my own, regularly bemoan the 
difficulty in finding experienced folks to fill infrastructure roles, 
which puts the onus on staff to train new hires. But who has time to 
pair program with a new hire when your team is understaffed? I just 
figure that having some clear training materials we could all share 
would allow new members to get up to speed more easily and enjoy doing 
fun stuff rather than banging their head against a wall because some 
novel configuration was never explained in the docs of some outdated 
toolset.

If there is a paucity of onboarding materials, does anyone think there 
might be a way to get some grant funding to write up some materials.

Cheers,
Matt

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Matthew T. West
DevOps & HPC SysAdmin
University of Exeter, Research IT
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/researchcomputing/support/researchit
57 Laver Building, North Park Road, Exeter, EX4 4QE, United Kingdom