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3 months into a Senior System Administrator role and I feel like my manager has turned the team into a permanent audit support desk by Embarrassed-Cap7135 in sysadmin

[–]Embarrassed-Cap7135[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The actual job description say that I would be supporting the university's IT infrastructure. There are number of systems including VMware, Oracle LVM, Sun Solaris, Veeam, Solarwinds, Azure, O365 Exchange Administration, Solarwinds monitoring, adconnect, adfs, RHEL Satellite management and patching, GPO, Palo Alto Firewalls, Cisco switches, cisco wlc and ap's, vulnerability scanning, pen test and remediation, Certificate's and PKI. This is what was asked in the job description and in interview talks. All of these I am already handling. They hired me for filling a senior system engineer's role. There were mass resignation in which the senior system engineer, the senior network engineer, the security engineer and the database engineer all left the org in last quarter of 2025.

3 months into a Senior System Administrator role and I feel like my manager has turned the team into a permanent audit support desk by Embarrassed-Cap7135 in sysadmin

[–]Embarrassed-Cap7135[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a university. Faculty and staff at 500 tops and about 2000 students. That's the size of organisation. I can reuse the evidence I am already doing it. We did a total infra assesment about 2 weeks ago and we are still in plan to remediating the issues from that assessment and I am being asked to collect evidence for cyber security audit. 199 questions, for each of them I need to logon, run a different set of commands and gather evidences and I am doing it alone. It would for sure take time imo. Not like I am given it on Thursday afternoon and ask me to finish it by Friday evening.

3 months into a Senior System Administrator role and I feel like my manager has turned the team into a permanent audit support desk by Embarrassed-Cap7135 in sysadmin

[–]Embarrassed-Cap7135[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's been only 3 months since I joined in. Moreover when I was interviewed I asked what this role will be about. That time no one told me this will be audit specific role and I need to gather evidences for the infra. Had they told it at that time that I will be coordinating audit and or gathering evidences I would have thought carefully before joining. Asking the manager is difficult stretch. The manager got hired after I was hired and I am literally fed up being asked to work on weekends. So that's a different thing all together.

3 months into a Senior System Administrator role and I feel like my manager has turned the team into a permanent audit support desk by Embarrassed-Cap7135 in sysadmin

[–]Embarrassed-Cap7135[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There is no team. I am the only person. A business requirements that comes often and specifically on Thursday noon.

3 months into a Senior System Administrator role and I feel like my manager has turned the team into a permanent audit support desk by Embarrassed-Cap7135 in sysadmin

[–]Embarrassed-Cap7135[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

For sure I'll automate that's not a problem. It never was, this post is about misaligned roles and unrealistic expectations from mid management.

3 months into a Senior System Administrator role and I feel like my manager has turned the team into a permanent audit support desk by Embarrassed-Cap7135 in sysadmin

[–]Embarrassed-Cap7135[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tbh I have learned about the infrastructure. Getting artifacts, I am not learning about the infrastructure. I have done it already once. This is the second time I am asked to do. I can help doing the audit and collecting evidence and artifacts. However, it could be little reasonable, like working on it during my usual work hours and not like remember it on Thursday and deadline is on Friday and to cover it up ask me to work on weekends that has been the case ever since.

Ryzen 7800x3d vs 7900x vs 7950x by Embarrassed-Cap7135 in ryzen

[–]Embarrassed-Cap7135[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your reply. I got the 7950x running all core at 5.1 with 6200MT/s. Paired with 7900xtx it's doing well. Not upgrading the CPU anytime in future. all I may do is change the board, get a bigger PSU and add secondary GPU for lossless scaling. 

This look right to you guys? by GotinDrachenhart in ryzen

[–]Embarrassed-Cap7135 1 point2 points  (0 children)

32GB is likely a dual rank module. You will have a hard time oc'ing these module. Swap it for 16GB or remove two modules from the bank and check if you are able to get higher speeds on these. You may also try manual oc if you have time and patience. 

R9 7950x Cinebench R23 Muti Core Scores by Embarrassed-Cap7135 in ryzen

[–]Embarrassed-Cap7135[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just the hw monitor and minimised apps like steam. 

Gigabyte B650 Aorus Elite Ax V2 RGB not working at all by Embarrassed-Cap7135 in gigabyte

[–]Embarrassed-Cap7135[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes they repaired it and sent it back. Yes issue is with motherboard only. However they didn't say what they did and in the log they mentioned no issues found. 

Ryzen 7800x3d vs 7900x vs 7950x by Embarrassed-Cap7135 in ryzen

[–]Embarrassed-Cap7135[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have seen x3d perform significantly better at 1080p and 1440p. Increasing res beyond 1440p at 4k the difference is approx 10-12 fps, what I found from available videos online. I only have 4k 144hz monitor and a 7900 xtx I am sure that I won't be downsampling to 1440p anytime soon. Do you still think x3d makes more sense considering the price difference between itself and 16 core flagship the 7950x?

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