7/9/2023 0 Comments Lil smarky posh![]() Having your CISSP says "hire me for senior level positions with senior level salaries" in a way nothing else does. ![]() What you want to do in your career is reach the plateau and stay there as long as possible. The plateau goes up a little every year but right now it's at around that number in the USA. Getting my CISSP was by far the biggest boost to my income but incomes in cyber security plateau around $150K a year for the most part, unless you're in banking or San Francisco or some special case like that. However, for most people, that would open some doors. Even becoming a certified Splunk architect would do nothing for me because of my special circumstances. I feel they were overall worthwhile, and I still have more Splunk Certifications and Accreditations that I will be pursuing here in the near future. They were sometimes even required, but your personal mileage may vary. Certifications were a part of my personal Splunk journey, but so was a lot of other Splunk relevant experience. Getting and continuing to succeed in this position relies on all of the knowledge and experience gained through my former employer as well as the help and helping of all of the awesome people I've met through the Splunk community. Now fast forward a few years, and I currently have one of the most meta jobs in the world: Helping Splunk run Splunk for Splunk and I couldn't be happier. Later when other areas of the business added an OEM partnership with Splunk, I already had the Architect certification that was required to help that partnership go forward. Through working deeply with Security teams, I learned a bit about a number use cases and data streams that I as a reforming J2EE developer had no opportunity to be exposed to previously. Later when Security groups at my former employer started getting going with Splunk, I feel some combination of this official recognition by Splunk and unofficial recommendations from certain Splunk Employees helped me get in the door to work with those groups. Through contributing back to the Splunk community, in addition to building my skills, over time I also acquired additional recognition from Splunk (A Splunk Ninja Revolution Award, and election to the Splunk Trust). ![]() That helped me build a nitche for myself at my former employer in certain areas of the business for administering Splunk and enabling users with Splunk. I went through the certs through Admin early in my Splunk related career, and that knowledge along with the help of the IRC and Answers communities I got really deep really fast. I'm going to say "it depends on the lens you put on it." The knowledge behind the certifications, and the experience beyond that are ultimately the actually valuable piece, but the certifications helped open the door for me.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |