What Is The Difference Between Storage Engineer And Service Engineer

The current job market for hardware and storage engineers is growing but that growth is wearisome.

As global device users create exponentially more than stored data over the next three years, demand for hardware also increases. Enterprises need hardware experts with a range of feel and skills with storage mediums.

Demand for hardware and storage employees, while increasing, will grow at a bottom rate than the demand for software engineers.

See below to learn what positions are available in the storage hardware market and what skills engineers and technicians need to be competitive:

Storage Hardware Job Market

The Chore Market
Storage Hardware Task Types
Educational activity for Storage Hardware Roles
Storage Hardware Job Openings
Storage Hardware Salaries
Conclusions

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The Job Market

The Agency of Labor Statistics forecasts a 2% growth rate for computer hardware engineer positions from 2020-2030, which it notes equally slower than average.

By comparison, software applied science demand is increasing more than apace: the BLS expects 22% job growth for the software developers, quality assurance analysts, and testers market.

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Storage Hardware Job Types

Storage hardware-focused roles typically include experience with storage market place trends and technologies, including:

Primary and archival storage
Solid-land drives (SSDs), difficult disk drives (HDDs), record, and optical devices
Storage protocols and buses
PC and server compages, such as x86 servers and CPU cores
Storage technologies, such as redundant array of independent disks (RAID)

The following are storage hardware roles in the job marketplace and sample requirements that employers may expect for each office:

Task Championship	Storage Hardware Responsibilities
Systems Hardware Engineer	Integrating systems Knowing at least one storage medium Understanding information storage protocols
Storage Administrator	Managing stored files and hard drives Configuring storage systems
Infrastructure Engineer	Managing block and file storage systems Working within data centers Knowing server operating systems and hardware
Hardware Product Managing director	Collaborating with development, engineering, and leadership teams Designing hardware product road maps Working with hardware engineers
Senior Hardware Engineer	Testing hardware systems Potentially managing other people and projects Deploying hardware in data centers
Systems Ambassador (Advanced)	Monitoring storage area network (SAN) tools Configuring deejay pools and storage groups Maintaining tape libraries

Education for Storage Hardware Roles

Many high-paying storage hardware positions require at least a available'due south degree, and some require a main's degree.

Hardware engineers typically take at to the lowest degree a bachelor's degree in computer engineering, computer science, or another related engineering field.

Hardware and storage engineers may also choose to earn a technical document from an accredited establishment. Common certifications for computer hardware engineers to concord include Certified LabVIEW Programmer (CLD) and Engineer in Training (EIT) certifications. The EIT is i stride to earning a professional technology license, co-ordinate to Zippia.

Storage Hardware Task Openings

There are over 8,000 jobs available tied to storage hardware in the U.Southward., according to LinkedIn. Here are some of the positions:

Hardware systems engineer – storage
Storage ambassador
Infrastructure engineer
Principal storage hardware builder
Senior hardware engineer
Storage direction consultant
Senior storage hardware architect
Systems ambassador (advanced)
Data eye operations
Server administrator

Storage Hardware Salaries

The tabular array below shows a range of salaries for hardware and storage positions, according to Glassdoor:

Task Title	Salary Range (Median)
Server/systems administrator	$73,000-76,000
Storage administrator	$91,000
Infrastructure engineer	$101,000
Systems hardware engineer	$109,000
Senior hardware engineer	$131,000
Senior storage engineer	$133,000

(Source: Glassdoor)

Conclusions

Professional positions in hardware and storage crave significant technical feel and often a higher degree. Knowledge of storage protocols, hardware configuration, and networking is useful in an enterprise surroundings that prioritizes technology and storage. Although the hardware task marketplace isn't growing as rapidly every bit the market for software-related roles, many requirements for hardware and storage engineering are also useful skills for software roles.

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Jenna Phipps

Jenna Phipps is a contributor for Enterprise Mobile Today, Webopedia.com, and Enterprise Storage Forum. She writes about information engineering security, networking, and information storage. Jenna lives in Nashville, TN.