On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Chris Knowles wrote: > That having been said, just thought I'd see if my experience is > typical. I work for a small company (~150 people) non tech company. > I'm titled a "Network Operations Coordinator" which is HR talk for > "Network Administrator/System Administrator, but if we put administrator > in his title we have to pay him more."
I think companies are brazen enough now to give you the "System Administrator" title with the "Network Operations Coordinator" pay scale. > I'm sort of a many hat wearing computer guy. I admin several systems, > and control great chunks of network too. I think this is the norm now. Look at the job listings these days. It's rare to find job req's for purely one discipline in System/Network/DB Administration. The sad thing is, there are a lot of multi-discipline guys out there now that don't know how to properly tune a database for maximum performance, how to secure their servers and automate administrivia or how to properly customize their router/switch configuration to suit their environment. I think there are a lot of guys out there that can do one or two of those specialties, but not all three. The DBA types can squeak by with doing less these days as exponential leaps in hardware performance over the years can somewhat obscure professional buffoonery in their field. System/Network Admins don't have this edge. In my ten years in this field I have seen a sharp decline in the expertise and depth of knowledge in most Sys/Net/DB Admins likely due to this consolidation of roles. And you know what? I don't blame the admins. I blame the managers who figured they had met someone once who could do all three somewhat competently and figured it was wise to assume that they could find others to do the same. Few companies can justify the cost of hiring specialists in the three major disciplines when the competition is consolidating also. It's a bit too early for a proper rant, but had I seen this a little later in the day I'd figure a way to work offshoring into this discussion. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
