OVERVIEW
What Is a Server Analyst?
The server analyst position is responsible for a majority of analysis performed on corporate or client servers, for insight into the server’s design, efficiency, network output, and/or other metrics. Server analysts have the critical responsibility of ensuring that an organization is able to continue running smoothly and avoid any issues that could cause delays or outages.
RESPONSIBILITIES
What Does a Server Analyst Do?
As a server analyst, individuals are responsible for a range of daily tasks that can entail troubleshooting, systems checks, and regular server audits. Specific day-to-day job responsibilities of a server analyst can include:
- Collaborating with team members and clients to identify server needs and test appropriately.
- Regular server audits to quickly diagnose potential problems and seek solutions.
- Leveraging creative solutions in addressing a wide range of potential server problems.
- Regularly communicate with clients looking for insight into server activity and performance.
- Supporting other server team members, especially by testing new server optimizations completed by server technicians.
- Corresponding with team members to deliver any relevant server updates, especially updates that might compromise project updates or deadlines.
These and other job responsibilities define the daily duties of a typical server analyst, providing for a quality blend of communication, technical analysis, and server troubleshooting.
EDUCATION & BEST DEGREES
What Education Does a Server Analyst Need?
If you want to become a server analyst, a crucial first step will be to obtain a bachelor’s degree in information technology. While not always required for positions, a bachelor’s degree will help you gain important skills and enhance your résumé to help you stand out among other candidates. In an IT bachelor’s degree program, you will learn scripting and programming, gain insight about different operating systems and security tactics, and understand business functionality with IT. These skills will be critical in a role as a server analyst.
What Certifications Does a Server Analyst Need?
In addition to a preferred bachelor’s degree and multiple years of experience in server technology or a related field, server analyst positions require experience in necessary technology.
Various certifications can make for stronger server analyst candidates. These can include:
- CompTIA A+
- CompTIA Network+
- CompTIA Security+
- CompTIA Project+
- CompTIA IT Operations Specialist
- CompTIA Secure Infrastructure Specialist
- Amazon AWS Cloud Practitioner
- CIW User Interface Designer
- LPI Linux Essentials
- ITIL®1 Foundation Certification
While not often required, these certifications and others can help server analysts build and maintain a working understanding of server environments as they change.
Best Degrees for a Server Analyst
Technology
Information Technology – B.S.
Award-winning coursework and value-add certifications make this online...
Award-winning coursework and value-add certifications make this online program a top choice.
- Time: 61% of graduates finish within 39 months.
- Tuition: $3,725 per 6-month term.
- Courses: 36 total courses in this program.
Certifications included in this program at no additional cost:
- CompTIA A+
- CompTIA Network+
- CompTIA Security+
- CompTIA Project+
- CompTIA IT Operations Specialist
- CompTIA Secure Infrastructure Specialist
- Amazon AWS Cloud Practitioner
- ITIL®*^ Foundation Certification
- LPI Linux Essentials
Skills for your résumé that you will learn in this program:
- Scripting and programming
- Networking and security
- Systems and services
- Data management
- Business of IT
Technology
Data Analytics Skills Certificate – School of Technology
The Data Analytics Skills Certificate will prepare you to demonstrate...
The Data Analytics Skills Certificate will prepare you to demonstrate foundational analytics concepts and build job-ready skills in fields like data analysis, data visualization, SQL, Python and Excel .
- Time: 4 months from start to finish.
- Cost: $2,000 for the certificate.
- Courses: 6 courses total in this program.
This certificate is designed to help aspiring data analysts begin their journey, gain valuable experience, and add a critical credential to their résumé. You are also guaranteed admission into a WGU School of Technology degree program. All of these courses can be applied to a course in the B.S. Computer Science and B.S. Data Analytics degree programs. This certificate will prepare you for the next step in your career.
This certificate can help build fundamental skills in data analysis, and also help those with no technical background begin to build vocational identity for a long-term career in data analytics.
Technology
Accelerated Information Technology Bachelor's and Master's Degree
Earn both your bachelor’s in IT and master’s in IT management at a faster...
Earn both your bachelor’s in IT and master’s in IT management at a faster pace with fewer courses.
- Time: Approximately 5 years.
- Tuition: $3,835 per 6-month term for the bachelor's degree; $4,040 per term for the master's portion.
- Courses: 42 total courses in this program.
Certifications included in this program at no additional cost:
- CompTIA A+
- CompTIA Network+
- CompTIA Security+
- CompTIA IT Operations Specialist
- CompTIA Secure Infrastructure Specialist
- Amazon AWS Cloud Practitioner
- ITIL®*^ Foundation Certification
- PMI CAPM
- LPI Linux Essentials
Skills for your résumé that you will learn in this program:
- Scripting and programming
- Networking and security
- Systems and services
- Data management
- Business of IT
This program allows students to earn their bachelor's degree in IT and move directly into a master's degree in IT management, cutting down on the total number of courses to complete.
How Much Does a Server Analyst Make?
$64,885
The exact salary of a server analyst depends on a range of influences, including their experience in the industry, time spent with their employer, employer size, employer location, client contracts, and other factors.
The yearly salary of a server analyst can average $64,885, income that can range from just over $30,000 to more than $83,470. Of course, server analysts will often contract their services out to clients, in which case they can receive additional compensation not registered under their full-time salary.
What Is the Projected Job Growth?
Favorable
Given the fact that the world continues to trend toward increased technology use, the market continues to need the services that a server analyst provides.
Compared to the number of employees who use technology daily to fulfill their job duties, relatively few individuals understand how servers operate, much less how to rectify any issues. A lack of overall understanding keeps the need for expert-level server analysis high, at least as long as major technology employers continue to drive forward the future of technology use in corporate, academic, and personal settings.
SKILLS
What Skills Does a Server Analyst Need?
Server analysts benefit from a variety of skills that they put to use daily. These can include:
- Technology deployment. The ability to use and implement programs like Microsoft Windows, Linux, EMC Avamar, and SAN technology.
- Team collaboration. The ability to work with server technicians, other server analysts, server architects, server admins, and other team members to solve issues as they arise.
- Personal accountability. The ability to maintain personal responsibility for daily tasks.
- Communication skills. The ability to share information with others in a timely fashion and communicate effectively to ensure proper steps are taken to resolve issues.
- Client and customer professionalism. The ability to maintain professional working relationships with clients and customers interested in server analysis services.
These skills and others help server analysts to perform daily tasks to the best of their ability and to continually satisfy internal or client server performance benchmarks.
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