What are the career & job prospects in India for Linux?

A snapshot of employment situation for the Linux jobs as compared to other platforms in India. The career opportunities in Linux, mentioning not only the Linux platform, it covers a lot of different areas like: Desktop Application Development Kernal & Device Drivers Development Web Development & Deployment and many more. Today there is a huge demand for open source software and open source software developers. There are many around the globe who turn to become the users of open source software. There many Fortune 500 companies today who migrated to Linux and open source software. The companies like Google, Yahoo, Boeing, Lufthansa, wiki.org, and many Indian companies migrated to a cost-effective open source solution. There is a huge demand for the skilled professionals in PHP & MySQL, Ruby, PERL, and Python.

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Career is good but you need to be an expert to achieve good levels. Linux has very good future as this is the most preferred back-end systems OS in all size of set-ups. Work hard and do certifications and further enhance your knowledge. Make the good career as best career for yourself. Best of luck.

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Job opportunities in Linux are – 1. Technician Jobs In this job profile, the candidate is responsible for managing Linux workstations and desktops. As a technician, the professional should know how to perform partitioning, installations, services, managing users, troubleshooting network, basic scripting and operating system problems. 2. Systems Administrator Through direct study or after getting a few years of experience as a technician, one can become a Linux system admin. In this profile, professional are aware of everything that a technician knows and a lot more things too. 3. Application and Web Programmer As Linux is growing rapidly in the corporate arena and huge part of web content publishing business is being run on Linux, PHP, MySQL, and Apache, more and more programmers are in demand who can write plugins, code in multiple languages, design databases and applications, add-ons, script in various languages and manage services. The average salary for a Linux System Administrator ranges from 3-7 LPA. For Technician, role pay ranges from 2-5 LPA. For developer, role pay is higher and starts from around 6 LPA

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The demand for Linux certified professionals are never ending. The job opportunities for a Linux professional are: 1) Technicians: They are responsible for the maintenance of Linux workstations and desktops. For that, they need to know how to perform installations, services, managing users, troubleshooting network, and operating system problems. 2) System Administrator: The system admin is responsible for managing important services like setting up backups, secure systems and servers, firewall management, package management and other administrative tasks. 3) Application and Web Programmer: Many skilled programmers in Linux who can write plugins, code in multiple languages, design databases and applications, write script in various languages and manage services can get the jobs as programmers in Linux based systems. 4) Support officers: The professionals who can help others with Linux do their work efficiently can work as support system engineers. 5) Teaching: With relevant certifications or experience as a teacher, one can get a job in a School, University, Institute or College. One can also get a job which would include writing articles or documentation for large companies, newspapers, magazines and so on. With the right attitude, knowledge, one can easily earn a lot of money as a Linux professional.

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