San storage administrator vs senior system administrator

The differences between san storage administrators and senior system administrators can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. It typically takes 1-2 years to become both a san storage administrator and a senior system administrator. Additionally, a senior system administrator has an average salary of $98,146, which is higher than the $89,614 average annual salary of a san storage administrator.

The top three skills for a san storage administrator include switches, MDS and VNX. The most important skills for a senior system administrator are linux, windows server, and troubleshoot.

San storage administrator vs senior system administrator overview

	SAN Storage Administrator	Senior System Administrator
Yearly salary	$89,614	$98,146
Hourly rate	$43.08	$47.19
Growth rate	5%	5%
Number of jobs	55,874	100,873
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 77%	Bachelor's Degree, 62%
Average age	43	43
Years of experience	2	2

San storage administrator vs senior system administrator salary

San storage administrators and senior system administrators have different pay scales, as shown below.

	SAN Storage Administrator	Senior System Administrator
Average salary	$89,614	$98,146
Salary range	Between $61,000 And $129,000	Between $75,000 And $126,000
Highest paying City	Newark, CA	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	Rhode Island	California
Best paying company	Medline	Cambridge Associates
Best paying industry	Manufacturing	Finance

Differences between san storage administrator and senior system administrator education

There are a few differences between a san storage administrator and a senior system administrator in terms of educational background:

	SAN Storage Administrator	Senior System Administrator
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 77%	Bachelor's Degree, 62%
Most common major	Computer Science	Computer Science
Most common college	-	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

San storage administrator vs senior system administrator demographics

Here are the differences between san storage administrators' and senior system administrators' demographics:

	SAN Storage Administrator	Senior System Administrator
Average age	43	43
Gender ratio	Male, 86.3% Female, 13.7%	Male, 89.0% Female, 11.0%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 8.0% Unknown, 5.0% Hispanic or Latino, 11.8% Asian, 14.0% White, 60.9% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%	Black or African American, 8.9% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 12.6% Asian, 11.8% White, 61.4% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%
LGBT Percentage	9%	9%

Differences between san storage administrator and senior system administrator duties and responsibilities

San storage administrator example responsibilities.

Support and manage an IP4700 and Clariion FC4700 unit that contains file repositories and application data.
Hire as a manager to lead a team of 20 people managing 8000 AIX servers in the bank.
Ensure AIX data integrity by evaluating, implementing and managing appropriate software and hardware solutions.
Implement multiprotocol environments like NFS and CIFS in NetApp NAS environment.
Migrate data for various hosts like Solaris, AIX, Linux and windows hosts.
Deploy ECC infrastructure agents and discover storage arrays, switches, hosts in the SAN environment.

Senior system administrator example responsibilities.

Manage and optimize the design and delivery of project associate with AIX arena.
Manage all installs and setup of new servers, and server upgrades to server 2008 R2.
Implement IIS servers for both the internal and external web servers and managing security on all web servers.
Design, implement, and manage a network and domain extension in a remote location via a secure VPN link.
Manage Cisco network equipment including firewalls and switches.
Administer and manage daily backups via Symantec NetBackup.

San storage administrator vs senior system administrator skills

Common san storage administrator skills

Switches, 9%
MDS, 6%
VNX, 6%
Linux, 5%
Storage Arrays, 5%
Isilon, 4%

Common senior system administrator skills

Linux, 7%
Windows Server, 6%
Troubleshoot, 5%
System Administration, 4%
PowerShell, 4%
SAN, 4%

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