Data center technician lead vs noc technician

The differences between data center technician leads and noc 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 noc technician. Additionally, a data center technician lead has an average salary of $128,891, which is higher than the $45,884 average annual salary of a noc technician.

The top three skills for a data center technician lead include infrastructure, cloud and java. The most important skills for a noc technician are customer service, troubleshoot, and network operations.

Data center technician lead vs noc technician overview

	Data Center Technician Lead	NOC Technician
Yearly salary	$128,891	$45,884
Hourly rate	$61.97	$22.06
Growth rate	5%	5%
Number of jobs	118,299	48,270
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 43%	Bachelor's Degree, 50%
Average age	43	43
Years of experience	2	2

Data center technician lead vs noc technician salary

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

	Data Center Technician Lead	NOC Technician
Average salary	$128,891	$45,884
Salary range	Between $76,000 And $217,000	Between $31,000 And $67,000
Highest paying City	-	Washington, DC
Highest paying state	-	Maryland
Best paying company	-	Duquesne Light Company
Best paying industry	-	Professional

Differences between data center technician lead and noc technician education

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

	Data Center Technician Lead	NOC Technician
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 43%	Bachelor's Degree, 50%
Most common major	Business	Computer Information Systems
Most common college	Stanford University	University of Pennsylvania

Data center technician lead vs noc technician demographics

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

	Data Center Technician Lead	NOC Technician
Average age	43	43
Gender ratio	Male, 86.9% Female, 13.1%	Male, 88.5% Female, 11.5%
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, 9.2% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 12.9% Asian, 8.7% White, 63.7% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%
LGBT Percentage	9%	9%

Differences between data center technician lead and noc 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.

Noc technician example responsibilities.

Manage troubleshooting for user side computer and Novell problems.
Manage windows server network configuration, disks and storage access requests.
Manage and administer VPNs using PPTP and GRE tunneling with TACLANE and FASTLANE encryption.
Install, setup, configure, manage and maintain desktop, laptop, and server equipment for multiple clients.
Manage core-network including all Cisco infrastructure elements including firewalls and perimeter routers.
Engineer and manage creation of co-registration Java modules for integration with Akamai streaming servers.

Data center technician lead vs noc technician skills

Common data center technician lead skills

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

Common noc technician skills

Customer Service, 10%
Troubleshoot, 9%
Network Operations, 5%
Switches, 5%
Technical Support, 4%
Routers, 4%

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