Senior engineering field technician vs systems administrator

The differences between senior engineering field 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 engineering field technician and a systems administrator. Additionally, a senior engineering field technician has an average salary of $79,876, which is higher than the $77,156 average annual salary of a systems administrator.

The top three skills for a senior engineering field technician include network troubleshooting, workstations and VPN. The most important skills for a systems administrator are linux, troubleshoot, and windows server.

Senior engineering field technician vs systems administrator overview

	Senior Engineering Field Technician	Systems Administrator
Yearly salary	$79,876	$77,156
Hourly rate	$38.40	$37.09
Growth rate	5%	5%
Number of jobs	126,391	134,500
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Associate Degree, 41%	Bachelor's Degree, 60%
Average age	43	43
Years of experience	2	2

Senior engineering field technician vs systems administrator salary

Senior engineering field technicians and systems administrators have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Senior Engineering Field Technician	Systems Administrator
Average salary	$79,876	$77,156
Salary range	Between $54,000 And $117,000	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 engineering field technician and systems administrator education

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

	Senior Engineering Field Technician	Systems Administrator
Most common degree	Associate Degree, 41%	Bachelor's Degree, 60%
Most common major	Electrical Engineering	Computer Science
Most common college	Northeastern University	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Senior engineering field technician vs systems administrator demographics

Here are the differences between senior engineering field technicians' and systems administrators' demographics:

	Senior Engineering Field Technician	Systems Administrator
Average age	43	43
Gender ratio	Male, 95.9% Female, 4.1%	Male, 83.9% Female, 16.1%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 9.1% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 12.8% Asian, 8.7% White, 63.9% 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 engineering field technician and systems administrator duties and responsibilities

Senior engineering field technician example responsibilities.

Recommend, engineer and manage office systems, including centralize productivity and communication systems such as e-mail and centralize desktop environments.
Repair phones, numbers, distributions blocks and workstations for trouble work orders.
Test and turn up T1 & T3 circuits and configure routers and access servers.
Work with RF design engineers to maximize RF propagation and eliminate sources of RF interference.
Resolve RF interference issues - locate source of interference using directional antenna and spectrum analyzer.
Used OC equipment to test with field technicians and to successfully turn-up T1 & T3 circuits.

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 engineering field technician vs systems administrator skills

Common senior engineering field technician skills

Network Troubleshooting, 34%
Workstations, 15%
VPN, 10%
Ethernet, 9%
RF, 8%
Transmitters, 6%

Common systems administrator skills

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

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