question for ATOT's sysadmins

[AStar617]

I know that in smaller shops the lines are often blurred and title inflation abounds, but given a medium-sized enterprise / institution (dedicated datacenter / NOC with dozens to hundreds of servers), what would be the defining differences in job duties between a "System Administrator" and a "Sr. System Administrator"?

I know there are always semantic differences, but what do you see the defining skillset differences being?

 

[SoulAssassin]

experience

 

[Kwaipie]

architecture, decision making.

 

[Drakkon]

a lot of jobs will use the "Sr" title when your the only one, or theres only two people and your the more experienced of the two. i had this happen to me at universities, in the publishing industry, all over the place. it was a ploy so they could make you do more cause your the only one on staff.

 

[spidey07]

Sr. = more money, decision making abilities, tells sysadmin what do do, sets direction, strategic role over tactical, etc.

 

[SSSnail]

Sr. = they know mo better people than you do.

 

[LS20]

titles dont mean much

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: LS20
titles dont mean much

they do twice a month when its payday.

 

[AStar617]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
a lot of jobs will use the "Sr" title when your the only one, or theres only two people and your the more experienced of the two. i had this happen to me at universities, in the publishing industry, all over the place. it was a ploy so they could make you do more cause your the only one on staff.

That's why I specifically framed the question within larger shops. I know more small-biz "Directors of Corporate IT" that don't understand basic networking than I care to count...

 

[AStar617]

Originally posted by: Citrix

Originally posted by: LS20
titles dont mean much

they do twice a month when its payday.

Yup. They don't mean much across different companies but they definitely do within one company.

This has helped. I was examining two positions that basically seemed identical, at the same company, except one was Sr. I have a feeling it might be assessment / server deployment duties that separate the two more than, say, knowing Perl like the back of your hand. Someone mentioned "strategic over tactical"--I think that sums it up pretty well. :thumbsup:

 

[RichUK]

More responsibility.