RedVEVO wrote:^^
No need for a Network Engineer anymore ..
It's a doomed career
Software is getting cheaper and more intelligent ..
No eh, network engineers in demand worldwide and the demand is growing, the same software you talk about for instance Cisco DNA/Juniper Contrail for enterprise networks require guys with good knowledge to build scaleable networks to support Azure/AWS/Private clouds. Also networks now are requiring folks to learn basic python to automate stuff but your knowledge of protocols etc is more needed over python (you can`t automate what you don`t understand) How you think people going to reach the cloud and optimise applications? I worked all over as a senior/lead network engineer outside of Trinidad and the money is there, the problem with Trinidad is the brain drain of dumpers so many CCNA`s out there that don`t even know networking they just memorise answers.
Ill list some salaries for enterprise networks regionally and one middle east salary.
Dart Cayman Islands (network architect) 110000 USD per year
Bremuda Senior IP engineer 110000 USD per year
Dubai UAE - 18000 AED a month
Panama 5500 USD a month
As for service providers stuff like segment routing, BGP, MPLS , all of the stuff that connects the world all rely on network engineers for instance in Cayman I got top dollar to do upstream ISP peerings to Cogent/C&W for IP transit over the CJFS and the Maya-1 fiber system in the ocean (to give customers access to the global internet) along with doing stuff like Qwit Caching/CDN for broadband, IPV6 allocation for GPON/Business solutions, IS-IS core routing and MPLS L3VPN`s. And none of that uses C++, Python, Java... That was all Cisco ASR 9001/NCS`s routers running Cisco IOS-XR`s (sure I could automate some stuff with python but you need to know why, when and how you are going to do these sort of things)
Hell I even have friends all over that do 5G as network packet core engineers and they get good $$$$. Don`t limit yourself to Trinidad only once you have the experience and certs other places will hook you up with a work permit easily as in a lot of places you are classed as a skilled worker and in shortage. In Trinidad I got software friends that don`t make anywhere near me also they can`t get a job overseas as countries have that talent and would give the job to a local instead.
