Senior data center technician vs systems administrator

The differences between senior data center technicians and systems 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 systems administrator. Additionally, a systems administrator has an average salary of $77,156, 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 systems administrator are linux, troubleshoot, and windows server.

Senior data center technician vs systems administrator overview

	Senior Data Center Technician	Systems Administrator
Yearly salary	$45,590	$77,156
Hourly rate	$21.92	$37.09
Growth rate	5%	5%
Number of jobs	110,488	134,500
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 48%	Bachelor's Degree, 60%
Average age	43	43
Years of experience	2	2

Senior data center technician vs systems administrator salary

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

	Senior Data Center Technician	Systems Administrator
Average salary	$45,590	$77,156
Salary range	Between $27,000 And $74,000	Between $59,000 And $100,000
Highest paying City	-	San Francisco, CA
Highest paying state	-	California
Best paying company	-	Meta
Best paying industry	-	Technology

Differences between senior data center technician and systems administrator education

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

	Senior Data Center Technician	Systems Administrator
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 48%	Bachelor's Degree, 60%
Most common major	Business	Computer Science
Most common college	-	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Senior data center technician vs systems administrator demographics

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

	Senior Data Center Technician	Systems Administrator
Average age	43	43
Gender ratio	Male, 89.1% Female, 10.9%	Male, 83.9% Female, 16.1%
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, 8.6% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 12.3% Asian, 11.5% White, 62.2% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.3%
LGBT Percentage	9%	9%

Differences between senior data center technician and systems 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.

Systems administrator example responsibilities.

Used Jenkins to automate most of the build relate tasks.
Manage windows file servers, messaging, and SQL databases.
Lead the project which integrate internal DNS into the corporate LDAP infrastructure for end user host management prior to deployment.
Lead business-critical information security initiatives involving encryption of customer data.
Authore and maintain shell and Perl scripts to automate administration tasks for infrastructure management.
Configure & manage all switches and servers responsible for providing WLAN connectivity and authentication services.

Senior data center technician vs systems administrator skills

Common senior data center technician skills

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

Common systems administrator skills

Linux, 7%
Troubleshoot, 7%
Windows Server, 6%
Database, 5%
Technical Support, 4%
PowerShell, 3%

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