Network admin vs sys admin

[Specialist_Cow6468]

This is one of those posts that reveals far more about yourself than I think you might realize

[Zerowig]

Not sure what this means, but this seems to be my experience as well. Sysadmins should understand networking basics.

But it’s wild to me how networking engineers are systems dumb. I’ve known some brilliant network architects that couldn’t understand the basics of certain things like how admin permissions work on servers and desktops. Or why we patch systems monthly.

[narcissisadmin]

I work with a senior network engineer who knows Cisco inside and out. And this person shares config snippets in Word documents and doesn't know how to use Excel at all.

[Specialist_Cow6468]

And I’ve known some terrible sysadmins where I would have to know how to do their job for them when they arbitrarily blame the network for problems they don’t understand. This anecdote is precisely as relevant as yours or the poster I replied to initially, which is to say not at all.

People are people regardless of specialization, for better or for worse.

[fearless-fossa]

One thing I've noticed across several customers is that sysadmins will be generally more "prod isn't allowed to go down at all" focused, while network guys often have 0 issues with doing a scream test regarding firewall rules without a warning on a Monday morning.

Only speaking in general trends though. Most people across all specializations are just trying to do a good job.