nickninevah
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Hello all,
I work at a small engineering company (25 users). We currently use an outside consultant for part time IT services. At this point, we pay the consultant enough that we could just hire a full time sys admin. But several people at the company are worried that anyone we hire will get bored and move on.
So I open it to the sys admins of the forum. Would you get bored in such a small company? (This is not a job advertisement. Just a question for general feedback.) I accept that we may have to hire a new sys admin every five years or so. But I would really like to know what sys admins seek in their ideal job.
Let me also describe our company a little. We are an engineering company. only 25 users. Most user will ask a variety of tier I type questions. Installing new software, pointing our the correct options in MS office, that sort of thing. But we also have a few advanced users, who ask very specific questions and frequently challenge hardware performance and network optimization. Some particulars about us:
- Running windows network, active directory
- 3 main physical servers with VMware virtual servers
- SAN storage network. One primary SAN host, with a mirrored host
- Small high performance computing cluster for advanced computations
- Nightly backups, using a mixture of local harddrives, removable drives swapped offsite, and internet backup service
So I ask you. Would a sys admin be bored at this job? Ideally, we need someone who can watch our network like a hawk and maintain stability. We need a guy with the free time to run diagnostics and do preventative maintenance before they turn into a problem. Someone who is willing to search for creative solutions that minimize our hardware costs, but who will have the time to do that research.
Is this the type of job that would fit a middle career sys admin? Or would everyone find this job boring? Looking for some feedback on what makes a sys admin happy in their job. Thanks.
Based on our user workload, I think this would be maybe 70% of a full time job, once everything was smoothed over.
I work at a small engineering company (25 users). We currently use an outside consultant for part time IT services. At this point, we pay the consultant enough that we could just hire a full time sys admin. But several people at the company are worried that anyone we hire will get bored and move on.
So I open it to the sys admins of the forum. Would you get bored in such a small company? (This is not a job advertisement. Just a question for general feedback.) I accept that we may have to hire a new sys admin every five years or so. But I would really like to know what sys admins seek in their ideal job.
Let me also describe our company a little. We are an engineering company. only 25 users. Most user will ask a variety of tier I type questions. Installing new software, pointing our the correct options in MS office, that sort of thing. But we also have a few advanced users, who ask very specific questions and frequently challenge hardware performance and network optimization. Some particulars about us:
- Running windows network, active directory
- 3 main physical servers with VMware virtual servers
- SAN storage network. One primary SAN host, with a mirrored host
- Small high performance computing cluster for advanced computations
- Nightly backups, using a mixture of local harddrives, removable drives swapped offsite, and internet backup service
So I ask you. Would a sys admin be bored at this job? Ideally, we need someone who can watch our network like a hawk and maintain stability. We need a guy with the free time to run diagnostics and do preventative maintenance before they turn into a problem. Someone who is willing to search for creative solutions that minimize our hardware costs, but who will have the time to do that research.
Is this the type of job that would fit a middle career sys admin? Or would everyone find this job boring? Looking for some feedback on what makes a sys admin happy in their job. Thanks.
Based on our user workload, I think this would be maybe 70% of a full time job, once everything was smoothed over.