Today I was looking at jobs at Kaiser Permanente, the giant HMO. I saw this listing:
Director of Network Services
With the name, National Operations, you can assume that our focus is huge - not to mention, 24/7 - and you'd be right. In a nutshell, NOPS is a group of 850-plus people who provide the day-to-day automation services necessary to support Kaiser Permanente's many medical groups, business partners and millions of members. With 6,000 servers, NOPS is one of the largest Oracle shared database projects in the world.
Wow. Well, I have to say - I'm not qualified for that job, and I don't think that I would like it even if I was. Can you imagine the phone call if 6,000 servers went down?
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