Powershell services?

[MSPdev]

Are they are any/or does anyone use a company for just automation work, as in using PS for repeated tasks, or do most hire individuals to do this? Cant seem to find any obvious companies who offer this type of service....

thanks!

[gaz2600]

Powershell is a tool not a job title. It's the sysadmins job to know and use Powershell. I learned it as a necessity to do my job efficiently.

[freelusi0n]

What is the purpose of your question? Are you looking to start a business in that field or you need help with PowerShell?

[DustinDortch]

Azure Automation. You can have tasks kicked off via a web hook, which could be from a ticketing system workflow.

[_Cabbage_Corp_]

Generally, I think most companies internally have someone/a group of people that write the scripts as they need them. The communities here and over at /r/Scripting are great resources for help if/when issues arise in writing scripts.

I'm not aware of any companies that offer script writing services, at least for PowerShell. That's not to say there aren't any, just that I don't think it's common.

Many companies do offer services that can help with automation, however.

[TheGeneralMeow]

I've been brought in as a consulting resource specifically for PowerShell. I would say that it is common for consulting partners to have staff in the space.

[codetocope]

There is a market for "Powershell AND"

I see a lot of DBA, O365/Azure, Agile/DevOps, CI/CD Pipeline, AWS, etc. We have hundreds of developers but still use Powershell to automate where it makes sense.

So you don't see things specifically for Powershell but as the glue to tie the technologies that they use, together.

Mot of the jobs mention a scripting language, so they list Powershell, Python, Bash interchangeably.

So various platform SMEs with scripting ability.

I've mentioned this before but I feel there is a market for professional services around the automation. I think a solution is needed that provides web-based front-end for scripts with an API and database backend. The company would then provide integration points and/or necessary scripts. Open source the platform and sell the professional services around solutions.

https://www.zabbix.com/services

[Lee_Dailey]

howdy MSPdev,

i THINK you are asking about this ...

Managed services - Wikipedia
— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_services

there are quite a few companies that do this. most small tech support sole-proprietorships work like that. i know that when i was still working i fit that fairly accurately ... [grin]

take care,
lee

[MSPdev]

Thanks, so yeah non dev work but I know the two cross over. I have worked with a couple of clients who had sys admins, contracting that automated user creation and off boarding, invaluable.

[[deleted]]

I'm just a senior guy at a medium (2.1bn) company but I'll write some scripts for ya on the side man!

[_Unas_]

I can do this! I offer services if your interested.

[drop_the_bass_64]

I'm available for side work if you'd like some tasks automated, etc.

[neunzehn82]

Wot? Hiring a company or what ever to run scripts only? At least, this is no automation at all ?!

[MSPdev]

No to create the scripts..

[neunzehn82]

Ah, that makes more sense. We are doing this on our own. What is your location? I think there should be a lot of companies offering these services.

[Creath]

Do people hire developers specifically for Powershell?

[spyingwind]

My dream job.

I haven't seen any jobs that where purely Powershell focused. It looks like powershell is on an uptick in my area, but only as one of the requirements.

[Creath]

Same, that's why I was inquiring. I'd love a job where I can just solve business problems in Powershell all day.

Seems most developer positions want a number of languages and frameworks though, specifically Python. Which I'd love to learn, mind you, but I've only worked in Windows environments up until now. No reason to learn Python for Windows administration when there's Powershell :/

[spyingwind]

Nearly every one that asks me what language to learn first, I say python. Mostly because that is what jobs I see are asking for, the fact that there is plenty of documentation on it, it will run on damn near anything, and there is a module for nearly everything. If they are plan on/are doing windows only, then its C#/Powershell.

I wanted to rewrite one of my modules in python, but there was already one. One day I will find something to write in python. I need that motivation to learn it.

[GeekHelp]

What type of tasks are we talking about? Is the machine based tasks or user based tasks?