Sun Support vs. Solaris Admin

Sun Fire · #1 (**permalink**) 05-14-2009

I'm looking for career advice here.

I've been working as a support engineer for Sun partners for 2 years now, and I worked with a lot of servers, tape libraries, and SAN storage. I have also done a lot of server installations and gone to a lot of trainings.

Now, I'm offered to do Solaris administration on-site. I'm afraid that managing one site (it's a bank) servers will not give me good experience, specially that the environment is stable, with only some database and application developments. I will be handling Solaris operating system on 20 servers..or less.

Can anyone advice ? which career has better future ?

rhfrommn · #2 (**permalink**) 05-15-2009

I would say Solaris Admin is a better career move. Unix admins make more than field support people I believe, you could always check salary websites for your area to verify that. Also, it is far more flexible. Every company with a datacenter needs Unix admins, while only a few resellers and support companies need support engineers.

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