Way of development of the system administrator?

Question

System administration

Good afternoon!
What do you think is the right way to develop a system administrator - a further transition to devops or studying 1C at the level of a consulting programmer?

Answer 1

A system administrator develops into a system administrator with a higher rank.
Administrated an office of 5 computers, then administrated an office of 100+ computers, then the main corporate system administrator in an office of 1000+ computers with different offices, complex infrastructure, and so on.
And devops or network admin are parallel industries, not an evolutionary path to the top.

Answer 2

If you like programming, go to devops.
I like to study networks - in network engineers.
I like fiddling with servers - stay admin.
And remember: A good thing "1C" will not be called.

Answer 3

Well, first of all, there is no right way. There are ways right for you, for someone else they will be wrong.
Secondly, neither 1s nor devops relate to either system administration or the development of a system administrator.

Answer 4

No.
Because neither one nor the other is not about administration at all. Devops is now again called everyone and sundry - it's just a buzzword.
1C programming is not even quite programming. This is such an atomic hybrid of programming and accounting, programming and inventory control, programming and God knows what else, that 1C programmers are generally a separate people.
The usual line of development of the admin - it's like the line of development of a unit in the game - there are forks in it :) You administer a small office - and you are responsible for everything, up to the kettles (electric). You administer a larger one - specialization begins - Windows, linux, networks, security. You choose a specialization - and start administering an even larger one - and then again either into specialists (the branch towards the chief specialist is just devops), or into managers (the branch towards the head of the IT / IS department, then CIO / CISO)

Answer 5

It is better to look not at the system administrator's development path, but at your own. Then it will be clear what activities you want to do more and what niches to occupy.

Answer 6

Choose an office where there is a lot of server hardware, storage systems, etc.
In small organizations, a server is a workstation in which there are already 2 disks and Windows Server is installed.