Senior data center technician vs noc technician

The differences between senior data center technicians 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 senior data center technician and a noc technician. Additionally, a noc technician has an average salary of $45,884, which is higher than the $45,590 average annual salary of a senior data center technician.

The top three skills for a senior data center technician include cable management, cloud and tcp ip. The most important skills for a noc technician are customer service, troubleshoot, and network operations.

Senior data center technician vs noc technician overview

	Senior Data Center Technician	NOC Technician
Yearly salary	$45,590	$45,884
Hourly rate	$21.92	$22.06
Growth rate	5%	5%
Number of jobs	110,488	48,270
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 48%	Bachelor's Degree, 50%
Average age	43	43
Years of experience	2	2

Senior data center technician vs noc technician salary

Senior data center technicians and noc technicians have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Senior Data Center Technician	NOC Technician
Average salary	$45,590	$45,884
Salary range	Between $27,000 And $74,000	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 senior data center technician and noc technician education

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

	Senior Data Center Technician	NOC Technician
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 48%	Bachelor's Degree, 50%
Most common major	Business	Computer Information Systems
Most common college	-	University of Pennsylvania

Senior data center technician vs noc technician demographics

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

	Senior Data Center Technician	NOC Technician
Average age	43	43
Gender ratio	Male, 89.1% Female, 10.9%	Male, 88.5% Female, 11.5%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 8.8% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 12.5% Asian, 9.7% White, 63.5% 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 senior data center technician and noc technician duties and responsibilities

Senior data center technician example responsibilities.

Manage vendor replacement of faulty equipment, maintain inventory, activity and procedure documentation on NOC SharePoint site.
Install, configure, and troubleshoot technical hardware resources including servers, switches, routers, cabling and relate components.
Set up and deploy workstations.
Work daily tickets to complete installs within the SLA.
Perform network and configuration changes daily to meet change management requests to meet timely SLA.
Design and implement EPA's DR facility out west in the event there are a disaster or network failure.

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.

Senior data center technician vs noc technician skills

Common senior data center technician skills

Cable Management, 27%
Cloud, 13%
Tcp Ip, 9%
Switches, 6%
HVAC, 4%
Unix, 4%

Common noc technician skills

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

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