Senior data center technician vs senior system administrator

The differences between senior data center technicians 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 senior data center technician and a senior system administrator. Additionally, a senior system administrator has an average salary of $98,146, 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 senior system administrator are linux, windows server, and troubleshoot.

Senior data center technician vs senior system administrator overview

	Senior Data Center Technician	Senior System Administrator
Yearly salary	$45,590	$98,146
Hourly rate	$21.92	$47.19
Growth rate	5%	5%
Number of jobs	110,488	100,873
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 48%	Bachelor's Degree, 62%
Average age	43	43
Years of experience	2	2

Senior data center technician vs senior system administrator salary

Senior data center technicians and senior system administrators have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Senior Data Center Technician	Senior System Administrator
Average salary	$45,590	$98,146
Salary range	Between $27,000 And $74,000	Between $75,000 And $126,000
Highest paying City	-	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	-	California
Best paying company	-	Cambridge Associates
Best paying industry	-	Finance

Differences between senior data center technician and senior system administrator education

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

	Senior Data Center Technician	Senior System Administrator
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 48%	Bachelor's Degree, 62%
Most common major	Business	Computer Science
Most common college	-	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Senior data center technician vs senior system administrator demographics

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

	Senior Data Center Technician	Senior System Administrator
Average age	43	43
Gender ratio	Male, 89.1% Female, 10.9%	Male, 89.0% Female, 11.0%
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, 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 senior data center technician and senior system administrator 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.

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.

Senior data center technician vs senior system administrator skills

Common senior data center technician skills

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

Common senior system administrator skills

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

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