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I think this is valid in many cases. A decent sysadmin in the US is (speculating) 200K USD, a good one in Europe is 120K+ euro. You have cheaper but they probab
by section_me 5y ago
I think this is valid in many cases. A decent sysadmin in the US is (speculating) 200K USD, a good one in Europe is 120K+ euro. You have cheaper but they probably can't explaint a UDP datagram or know how ECMP over BGP works. It's the understanding of all of the underling tech which make them worth there weight in gold.
- selfmodruntime 5y agoNo Sysadmin in Europe is being paid 120k Euro. It‘s learned trade and you‘d be lucky to pull 70k.
- belter 5y agoThe calculation from the management side of 120K Euro is correct. And you are also correct that they are lucky in Europe to get paid 70K. To pay them around 70K, you need to budget for 120K. It will go into social security, taxes, training, overheard of management, HR team, other costs centers like a margin to account for sickness, absenteeism, people who are trying to "find themselves", personal crisis etc...
- PeterisP 5y agoThe sysadmin you need to manage your cloud infrastructure isn't going to be any cheaper, and if you want high-reliability 24/7, you still need your own staff on call 24/7, so you still need multiple sysadmins. If some cloud setup can halve your sysadmin labor, then a company with 20 sysadmins can go to 10 sysadmins, but a company with 1, 2 or 3 sysadmins still needs all of them.
- native_samples 5y agoI can't tell you how ECMP over BGP works and I was an SRE at Google. Your idea of what's needed to run Linux servers is well over the top.