Also called: Storage Engineer, Backup Administrator
Manages the huge disk systems and backups that hold a company's data, so nothing is ever lost.
You add more storage for a team running out of space, test that last night's backups can actually be restored, and plan how to recover everything if a data center floods.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's or associate degree in IT plus vendor certifications.
Ways in: 2-year college, 4-year college, Certification. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Information Technology.
Shrinking (about -4% over 10 years). Tracks systems administrators; shrinking as storage moves to the cloud.
Medium risk in 5 years, high in 10. Cloud storage and self-managing backup systems cut the need for people to run disk arrays by hand.
Classes: Computer applications, AP CS Principles.
Official data: O*NET occupation 15-1244.
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