Senior noc technician vs systems administrator

The differences between senior noc 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 noc technician and a systems administrator. Additionally, a senior noc technician has an average salary of $77,518, which is higher than the $77,156 average annual salary of a systems administrator.

The top three skills for a senior noc technician include linux, network operations and tcp ip. The most important skills for a systems administrator are linux, troubleshoot, and windows server.

Senior noc technician vs systems administrator overview

	Senior NOC Technician	Systems Administrator
Yearly salary	$77,518	$77,156
Hourly rate	$37.27	$37.09
Growth rate	5%	5%
Number of jobs	12,979	134,500
Job satisfaction	-	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 46%	Bachelor's Degree, 60%
Average age	43	43
Years of experience	2	2

Senior noc technician vs systems administrator salary

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

	Senior NOC Technician	Systems Administrator
Average salary	$77,518	$77,156
Salary range	Between $46,000 And $130,000	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 noc technician and systems administrator education

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

	Senior NOC Technician	Systems Administrator
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 46%	Bachelor's Degree, 60%
Most common major	Computer Information Systems	Computer Science
Most common college	University of Southern California	Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Senior noc technician vs systems administrator demographics

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

	Senior NOC Technician	Systems Administrator
Average age	43	43
Gender ratio	Male, 85.7% Female, 14.3%	Male, 83.9% Female, 16.1%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 8.9% Unknown, 5.1% Hispanic or Latino, 12.6% Asian, 8.8% White, 64.4% 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 noc technician and systems administrator duties and responsibilities

Senior noc technician example responsibilities.

Recommend, engineer and manage office systems, including centralize productivity and communication systems such as e-mail and centralize desktop environments.
Rack and stack network equipment (routers, servers, switches and any other equipment).
Provide customer support on internet, email, webhosting and VoIP.
Receive calls and tickets for connectivity issues ranging from basic broadband to fiber connections.
Serve as the hands and ears of technicians dispatch to hotels to replace faulty servers, switches, and routers.
Recommend, engineer and manage office systems, including centralize productivity and communication systems such as e-mail and centralize desktop environments.

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 noc technician vs systems administrator skills

Common senior noc technician skills

Linux, 8%
Network Operations, 8%
Tcp Ip, 7%
SolarWinds, 6%
Switches, 6%
Escalate, 6%

Common systems administrator skills

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

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