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Solaris Admin is a strong flavor of UNIX Admin, and the SPARC flavor is mostly but not entirely overlapping the x86 flavor, a very accessible place to start. Mix in sites with old versions, tools, other SunOS, and it gets fun. Virtualization takes you one direction, Clustering another, and the Cloud potentially a third direction.
Different shops put Solaris in different roles, based on site customer politics. Being Sys Admin might not much flex a CS degree. You have to consider App and System Architecture, Distributed Robust systems, network and SAN architecture when putting together a shop. Then there is the whole related world of RDBMS and Data Architecture, service frameworks, web, J2EE, etc. To get hired, you need experience, so paid internship is golden.