Welcome to the Ops School curriculum documentation site.
Ops School is a comprehensive program to teach you how to how to be an operations engineer. Operations engineers are highly skilled persons who manage the computer systems at small and large businesses, as well as the various computer, network and security systems that allow the Internet to work.
Since the early 1990's, operations engineers have been in high demand. As a result, these positions often provide high salaries and long term job security. The SAGE/LISA Salary Survey has charted the average salaries for systems administrators and operations engineers since 1999. This has consistently shown the field to be a prosperous field for those people who enjoy diving into the inner workings of computer systems.
If you already know about the profession and want to know how to start, read :ref:`How to become an operations engineer <how-to-become-an-operations-engineer>`.
If you reading about this career for the first time and want to know if it is for you, check out the :doc:`Careers in Operations </careers>` chapter.
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