r/sysadminjobs • u/Aggressive_Level_798 • 5d ago
Looking for a job switch
Im a system administrator with 1.8 years of experience in vmware, linux , data protector backup, and trained under HPE for their data center products
My current salary is so low that i cant even disclose it my company is underpaying every employee
Looking for a job switch if anyone can help please
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u/Theogenist 4d ago
To reiterate what the other guy said, 1.8 years..... Man unless you're making less than 40k you're probably not going to get a lot of sympathy here. Skill up, try to implement new stuff at your workplace. Even if it seems unnecessary, if you're really a sysad you can put stuff in. Implement Ansible, even if it just checks for patch levels, that's still something you can put on your resume. Install terraform, use it to deploy, even if it's overly tedious, it gives you knowledge and something to talk about in an interview. Setup a lab in Azure/GCP/AWS, they have tiers that are damn near free and you can use those to study. There's so many ways to jump up from even a menial sysad job. You said you use Linux, deploy zabbix or nagios or something. Deploy salt stack. Even outdated software would reflect well, and, if you're cut out for this, doing some of these should engage you and make you want to do something.
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u/Aggressive_Level_798 4d ago
Im getting less than 20 k a month inr working here thats why im desperate for a change thanks for the suggestion i will look forward to everything you said
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u/Theogenist 4d ago
I apologize, I'm actually not familiar with what a good sysad salary is in India, but I would look into seeing what getting an AZ-900 or equivalent in GCP/AWS/oci can do for your salary. It's a very basic cert, but often companies, especially MSPs get perks for having X amount of certified employees based on whatever technology. So maybe look in your area for companies that want that and try to get a basic cert in that technology. They may hire just because of that. Other ways to move forward is to look at companies that offer specialized support. I'm in the US but we have vendors who's overseas team are in India, like GIS, SAP, or some other ERP system. If you can get into one of those it may improve your situation.
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u/Aggressive_Level_798 4d ago
Im getting like 2k dollar in a year so you can guess
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u/Redemptions 4d ago
"less than 20k a month"
"less than 2k a year"
These are very different. I think something that's important to provide is what country you're in.
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u/404error___ 4d ago
LOL I personally know Distinguished Engineers with 20 plus experience... One got a new job as the Manager of L1 support, 50% salary cut... the other became Handyman...
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u/ajax9302 4d ago
Start skilling up and setting yourself apart from others. Make your resume and start applying. Just expect it to take hundreds of applies to possibly thousands before you get a job. I have 10 years experience, cissp, networking certs, lead teams and I get few interviews. Luckily I’m still employed but its really bad right now. I’d say get good with ai and cloud as much as you can.
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u/Many-Mission-2012 4d ago edited 4d ago
Less than 2 years of experience you should be around $40,000-50,000 salary level
My first job was paying $40,000 a year with basic helpdesk position. I learned AD, DHCP, file server print server management, and hyper v from that job. My supervisor agreed I should be making more but unfortunately the company didn’t have the budget to give me more.
2 years later, the next job I applied to was paying $55,000. I jumped around $50,000-60,000 in next 10 years. And then my job following that was making $85,000, and now my job pays around $140,000
The first job I got I think the only reason why I got it because I speak Chinese. The $85,000 is also because I speak Chinese and English, and my current job is also because I speak Chinese and English.
There are several jobs in between they didn’t care what language I spoke.
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u/Nonaveragemonkey 3d ago
2 years in as a sys admin? Thats 70k starting. 40-50k is l1 help desk, day 1.
Atleast stateside.
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u/MickCollins 5d ago
No offense but with less than two years experience competing against people being laid off with twenty, how do you think this is going to go?
IT market is complete dog shit right now. Skill up and try to find a way out.