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Althou I am in IT
I want to ask some IT guys on this forum or anyone if they have expereience doing this job?
What does it take whats your experience
And what knowledge you possess and pay you earn
Would like to know your experience
Came up through the ranks of network administration/engineering. So just my .02.
First those titles are very generic and can mean different things, and somewhat more of an HR terms than actual IT titles. For a small organization, it essentially the more experienced IT guy. He manages the servers or runs the data center. Backups, server builds, network administration etc. In a larger environment, you have more of a distinction between system administrators and network engineers. The Sysadmins are the ones that manage the servers (backups, new system implementations, tier 2/3 troubleshooting) and the network guys will manage the networks (configure switches, routers, ACLs, VLANs etc.).
To an extent, a successful network/system administrator would need a good foundation knowledge of networking and computer architecture. And it may also be necessary to specialize - like security, voice, storage etc. or even a specific product like Exchange, VMWare, Cisco UCS, etc. (albeit that may make you too specialized).
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