Eric M Russell (7/30/2015)
Markus (7/30/2015)
IT here let go about 15 people last year and then created about 20 new positions mostly in the Mobile space. The direction and technology changes so IT must change as well.Long term I wonder about server and DBA staffs at companies. As the cloud and software vendors jump more and more into self hosting what company will ADD DBAs or server engineers? Those staffs will shrink. There is more and more of a push for self hosting and goingt to the cloud in general here.
It depends on what roles a DBA has in your organization. If you are actively involved in architecting the database, ETL and SQL development, line of business operations, etc. then moving to the database to the cloud just means that some of the more mundane tasks are offloaded to a third party, and you can focus on the more interesting aspects of your position.
However, if all you do is monitor processes and shuffle backups, then make no mistake, you're screwed, and you might want to start transitioning into retirement.
Yeppers on that.
I cannot justify my position as just a plain old DBA who monitors, does backups and so forth. I have to get more involved with the data in how it's being used in order to justify my position. That means doing more development and engineering aspects of my role, which I really enjoy a lot.
Luckily, not everything I work with is in the cloud. I still do a lot of the traditional stuff, but also have to get heavily involved with the data engineering portion with being that IT specialist for the team members who are good with number and not so good with the technology piece. It works out very well because that's not easily replaced simply because the data now lives in this so called "Cloud".