System Engineer gets involved in a architecture of the infrastructure.You should be able to know the environment more deeply than system admin.Linux System Admin can know only the linux infrastructure, run linux commands on boxes and get your way around operating system.System Engineer goes above that and knows about Networking,Storage as well as servers. This was my experience as i went from that transition.Others might have different experience.

tihar · Jul 12, 2015 8:17 PM

Thank you tihar for your input. Do you find your job easy? I was told exactly the same thing during interview that you mentioned. I'm brushing my skills on storage and networking.

khotokarma · Jul 12, 2015 8:32 PM

Good companies would organize training and would have proper documentation on their environment . It's perfectly fine to say you do not know as you were a Linux Admin before. I am still short handed at Networking but i am getting my way around storage.

tihar · Jul 13, 2015 6:31 AM

Join Nepalese Linux user's mailing list at asksysadmins dot com Thanks Last edited: 14-Jul-15 11:26 AM

nishant322 · Jul 14, 2015 11:26 AM

Systems engineer bhandai ma Linux nai huna jaruri chaina. Satellite industry ma System Engineers haru le overall system ecosystem architect ra design/maintain garchan. Linux/Unix jaruri chaina however linux/unix ka job posting haru ma yo title popular chai cha hai.

flyingfox · Jul 14, 2015 1:43 PM