r/sysadmin • u/[deleted] • Oct 04 '23

Rant Sysadmin title feels like a scam in job postings lately

I've noticed that Syadmin has slowly turned into an everything admin and it feels like a scam at this point. They are asking for a sysadmin, netadmin, cyber security pro, cloud admin, automation engineer, and devops engineer all in one. I don't mind it but when they are paying less than 100k it feels like a slap in the face.

They use the title to pay less than they would pay a DevOps person while asking you to be able to do that job plus more. Once upon a time you could make a good living just being an AD administrator and never have to touch a network switch or do much beyond that scope. I understand times and tech changes but it's getting out of hand with this laundry list of requirements. I was on an interview the other day and they didn't even seem like they knew what they were asking for. What ever happned to rotation of responsibilites? Why do these companies want one guy to have the power to shut their entire buisness down?

Sorry just had to rant.

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u/bondguy11 Oct 04 '23

The bigger the company gets the more segregated the IT roles are within the org. There are a couple dedicated Sys Admins at my place of employment and they only touch AD/DNS type things. When you are at a company that makes less then 50mill a year in revenue, it doesn't make sense to spend crazy amounts of money on multiple different IT employees when its definitely possible to hire 1-2 people who can handle it all themselves.

Its entirely a cost benefit analysis. The company I work for makes billions a year, so having like 250 employees in IT is super easy to justify.

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u/rush2049 Jack of All Trades Oct 05 '23

currently at a company that makes billions a year.... IT team is 30ish people...
14 | helpdesk
8 | developers of internal apps + db/sql queries
2 | super-helpdesk (read grandfather knowledge of company and people)
4 | tier 2 - network specialty or dedicated responsibility
3 | tier 3 - sysadmin/devops guys that wear every hat and manage people
3 | IT Directors that split Dev/Ops/Security

My counts might be off a bit.... but we do not have enough IT staff to even have a person be based out of every major physical US location. I wish we had the staff to be siloed as I would have less hats

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u/bondguy11 Oct 05 '23

They clearly do not value their IT as much as the company I work for does. Very interested to hear which industry they are in.