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That I'm not sure of actually but would be discussed with potential candidates who have the experience and would like to move if need be :D Terry has the figures as it's his team.

That said though, for a regional area where the cost of living is quite good, my pay is quite comfortable and I was a similar role before moving into middle management.

Reviewing and approving them is just as bad Ash :D

Still, in this Area this is one of the bigger players so it's not a bad place to work. I've been here 15mths so far and have worked for some of the competitors and am in no rush to go anywhere.

Plus couldn't be all bad knowing that at least one guy on staff is an SAUer....

Same, we have a guy here who's a candidate for go postal I think, he's far too nice and calm all the time. I'm just naturally assuming he's a cauldron of rage like the rest of us...

Vesuvius style.

I find advertisements like that interesting, the senior engineers I know are quite specialised so they'll pretty much only work on their technology whether it's messaging, SQL or whatever. This one isn't the worst at all but the amount of times you see we want exchange, vmware, dba admin, citrix, cisco certifications, etc.. I can't help but think they won't find their ideal candidate because if they are really a senior in all those technologies you'd be looking at a really big salary, and even then spending enough time in each technology to maintain the skills is tough.

And yes timesheets suck. Loving the achievements link.

Agreed to an extent. Though I didn't write the ad, I understand your point.

That said, in a time billing environment it's not uncommon to find people who are specialists at one or two things and who are also quite proficient in many other technologies, as being successful in this environment relies more heavily on being multi-faceted as opposed to internal IT.

I like the feedback but I'm yet to hear of app coming through guys...

I have a few my my engineers that would cover all that, I have them all on about 80K, you are essentially looking for a sys admin, all those technologies are data centre focused, most people that touch one or two of those platforms would have a pretty good idea of the others. Good luck trying to get vm specialists, they are in high demand atm!

gregor: I work for a government organisation and all 3 sysadmins have in depth knowledge of all of those systems, with a specialised network admin who runs the CUCM / Cisco router and switch initial configuration / node installations etc.

Even myself as a regular tech has to have a good knowledge of Exchange, Hyper V / VMWare, SCCM 2007, Commvault Archiving Systems, Windows Server, Papercut, Apple administration (inc Admit Mac) and deployments, as well as the basics of SQL, Sharepoint etc etc.

We also don't get paid obscene amounts, however the experience gained over simply being a "have you tried turning it off and on again" level 1 tech is invaluable IMO.

So therefore I don't find it that far fetched, but one would hope that it's paying AT LEAST 80k lol.

At least I don't have to state times on our internal helpdesk system taken on jobs, but I could see it happeneing one day

If anyone really nice is in the city and has a primarily network administration / architect / security job and wouldn't mind helping a SAU member/ Uni student out I might be needing some work experience >.>

Apparently I'm an engineer so I need work experience...

@ RMIT Bachelor of Engineering (Computer and Network Engineering)

TY!

gregor: I work for a government organisation and all 3 sysadmins have in depth knowledge of all of those systems, with a specialised network admin who runs the CUCM / Cisco router and switch initial configuration / node installations etc.

Even myself as a regular tech has to have a good knowledge of Exchange, Hyper V / VMWare, SCCM 2007, Commvault Archiving Systems, Windows Server, Papercut, Apple administration (inc Admit Mac) and deployments, as well as the basics of SQL, Sharepoint etc etc.

We also don't get paid obscene amounts, however the experience gained over simply being a "have you tried turning it off and on again" level 1 tech is invaluable IMO.

So therefore I don't find it that far fetched, but one would hope that it's paying AT LEAST 80k lol.

At least I don't have to state times on our internal helpdesk system taken on jobs, but I could see it happeneing one day

A late reply but..

I think my interpretation of the appropriate level of knowledge is different to others, IMO as a senior with no escalation point (except vendors) being pretty good isn't quite enough. I consider myself good at a range of the skills - some better than others - being discussed but the how in depth they want is the question. Theres also differences in supporting a single environment where you can just focus on that or consulting externally which has pros and cons. At the company I'm at now they're big enough to have teams that only do security, or connectivity, etc.. so you get a different type of experience again compared to a smaller business like where I worked last.

That's why I'd rather see a rough salary/package included, see a job asking for the world and paying 50-60k and you can get an idea of the person they are after (or likely to get). On the other hand if you see a job asking for all that and they are paying 100k+ you know they are expecting a hell of a lot more depth to the knowledge.

that's a fair point; I work in an IT department of 6 people, everyone NEEDS to be multi talented; that said we also have maintenence contracts with some of the vendors / integrators for stuff of an overly technical nature, but then some are not particularly interested in supporting enterprise, or so it seems at the same time.

  • 2 weeks later...

As an update to this, based on some re-shuffling of the staff. It looks like strong windows skills will be the critical component to this job. I will most likely be the direct line manager for this position now also and I can say that 80k is available for the right candidate.

I'm pretty awesome to work with and that sort of salary goes a long way here. Clearing $2,300+ a fortnight is not exactly chump change in a place where 400k gets you a house like mine, brand new, 4bdr + study on 1250+sqrs.

10-15mins to work, plenty of parking, lots of outdoor activities, race track within an hours drive, plenty of pubs and clubs, decent food an shopping. 3hr drive to Melb or less than 40min flight... This is living ;)

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