Re: [SAGE] System Engineer vs System Administrator (was Resume inflation)

[Stephen Fulton <sfulton@esoteric.ca>]

Jennifer Davis wrote:

At the risk of appearinging facetious, these definitions apply to 
virtually any competent, experienced Systems Administrator in a small 
(<50) company.  Jack (or Jill) of all trades, so to speak.

IMO, the title of "Engineer" is used far to liberally, and I know of 
many licenced engineers who can become quite animated when they hear 
terms like "Systems Engineer".  That's not to say that everyone who uses 
the term "Systems Engineer" is not deserving of the title, but a clear 
definition that is acceptable to most technical professionals would be a 
way to solve this.  Perhaps this is something for a SAGE committee to 
work on.

-- Stephen Fulton.


> 1) "System Engineer" was a term for, or perhaps the next step above,
>   "Senior System Administrator"; or
>
> 2) "System Administrators" did operations and reactive work, while 
> "System
>   Engineers" did automation and proactive work.
> 
> 
> 3) System Engineers support the sales team on site to integrate 
> different products, or provide technical support before a company 
> actually buys the product.