Re:Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration
by section_me on Friday January 28, 2022 @07:42PM
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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 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.
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Re:Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration
by j-krieger on Friday January 28, 2022 @10:09PM
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No Sysadmin in Europe is being paid 120k Euro. It‘s learned trade and you‘d be lucky to pull 70k.
Re:Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration
by belter on Saturday January 29, 2022 @05:52AM
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The 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...
Re:Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration
by PeterisP on Saturday January 29, 2022 @02:44AM
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The 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.
Re:Reclaiming the lost art of Linux server administration
by native_samples on Saturday January 29, 2022 @09:48AM
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I 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.