Data center technician lead vs data center technician

The differences between data center technician leads and data center technicians can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 1-2 years to become both a data center technician lead and a data center technician. Additionally, a data center technician lead has an average salary of $128,891, which is higher than the $46,560 average annual salary of a data center technician.

The top three skills for a data center technician lead include infrastructure, cloud and java. The most important skills for a data center technician are patients, customer service, and CLIA.

Data center technician lead vs data center technician overview

	Data Center Technician Lead	Data Center Technician
Yearly salary	$128,891	$46,560
Hourly rate	$61.97	$22.38
Growth rate	5%	5%
Number of jobs	118,299	139,177
Job satisfaction	-	4.5
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 43%	Bachelor's Degree, 41%
Average age	43	43
Years of experience	2	2

Data center technician lead vs data center technician salary

Data center technician leads and data center technicians have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Data Center Technician Lead	Data Center Technician
Average salary	$128,891	$46,560
Salary range	Between $76,000 And $217,000	Between $28,000 And $74,000
Highest paying City	-	Piscataway, NJ
Highest paying state	-	Massachusetts
Best paying company	-	Microsoft
Best paying industry	-	Energy

Differences between data center technician lead and data center technician education

There are a few differences between a data center technician lead and a data center technician in terms of educational background:

	Data Center Technician Lead	Data Center Technician
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 43%	Bachelor's Degree, 41%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	Stanford University	-

Data center technician lead vs data center technician demographics

Here are the differences between data center technician leads' and data center technicians' demographics:

	Data Center Technician Lead	Data Center Technician
Average age	43	43
Gender ratio	Male, 86.9% Female, 13.1%	Male, 73.1% Female, 26.9%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 8.5% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 12.2% Asian, 11.8% White, 62.1% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%	Black or African American, 9.0% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 12.7% Asian, 8.7% White, 64.1% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%
LGBT Percentage	9%	9%

Differences between data center technician lead and data center technician duties and responsibilities

Data center technician lead example responsibilities.

Recommend, engineer and manage office systems, including centralize productivity and communication systems such as e-mail and centralize desktop environments.
Install & setup BPCS & 3rd party ERP applications.
Provide first line defense by providing customer with support on hosting, HTML, FTP, POP3 issues.
Support various web-base applications, LAN/WAN connections and various media devices (FTP programs, PDAs and Smartphone's).
Set appropriate recovery model for SQL databases to maximize space used, depending on the type of data in the database.
Back up terabyte databases and perform restores and run consistency checks from SQL standby servers prior to making changes in production.

Data center technician example responsibilities.

Manage job schedules via Autosys, Tivoli, & Zeke.
Utilize remedy ticketing system to track and manage trouble tickets and changes.
Manage the daily operation of the NOC which includes provisioning servers, ticket handling and resolution and internal escalations.
Manage data center power, space and infrastructure planning for mainframe, distribute, storage and network equipment technologies.
Manage proactive network monitoring, repair, and maintenance for TDM, SS7, VoIP, and DWDM platforms.
Job responsibilities include monitoring network equipment and network performance in support of Net2Phones manage PacketCable VOIP solution.

Data center technician lead vs data center technician skills

Common data center technician lead skills

Infrastructure, 17%
Cloud, 13%
Java, 5%
Switches, 5%
Data Centers, 4%
Customer Service, 4%

Common data center technician skills

Patients, 12%
Customer Service, 10%
CLIA, 9%
OSHA, 8%
Standard Operating Procedure, 8%
Center Management, 8%

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