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The original was posted on /r/sysadmin by /u/need_some_water2 on 2024-01-22 02:51:58+00:00.
Contemplating a new job offer, what're your guys thoughts and would you take the offer or stick with the current job I have? Both don't require on-call responsibilities. Just looking to see if it's worth taking a pay cut to work in the Public Cloud space as my current job is all on-prem. I have around 10 years of experience but slim to none working in a Cloud provider (Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.) with the exception of some minor Office 365 administration.
I feel like my current gig is almost a Unicorn with how much it's paying (in relation to the work I do) and how lax the work environment is and given the 98% WFH. Thinking about giving it up is very hard but I know I need to start gaining some solid Cloud experience (Azure/AWS/GCP/etc.) so I'm stuck at a standstill. Do I stay or do I go?
Current gig:
Contractor W-2 (Public Trust)
Systems Engineer
- $80/hr
- 20 days PTO
- Meh, expensive health benefits and non-matching 401k
- Lax work environment, 98% WFH (Only time I'll really have to go in is if one of our devices in the DC goes down, even then I have a backup who can go in for me if I'm not available ASAP.)
- Managing VMware and Citrix environment, no cloud, all on-prem
- Doesn't have any room for upward trajectory in terms of career due to smaller team and supporting a smaller environment. Contract will most likely get renewed vs going FTE.
New Offer:
FTE (non Govt.)
Cloud Engineer
- $110k base and 10% bonus
- Unlimited PTO + (18 holidays and 12 sick days)
- Good health benefits and 8% matching 401k (3yr vesting period)
- Hybrid Remote (3 days in office 2 days remote)
- Performing VMware migrations from on-prem to Azure and working in Azure environment. This company also has infra in the AWS environment as well so I could potentially get to work on that.
- Has bigger upward trajectory for career since environment is much bigger and supporting much more