A system administrator, systems administrator, or sysadmin, is a person employed to maintain and operate a computer system and/or network. System administrators may be members of an information technology department.
The duties of a system administrator are wide-ranging, and vary widely from one organization to another. Sysadmins are usually charged with installing, supporting, and maintaining servers or other computer systems, and planning for and responding to service outages and other problems. Other duties may include scripting or light programming, project management for systems-related projects, supervising or training computer operators, and being the consultant for computer problems beyond the knowledge of technical support staff. A System Administrator must demonstrate a blend of technical skills and responsibility. - referenced from wikipedia.
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(In many respects a systems administrator might be considered a swiss army IT professional).
A system administrator's responsibilities might include:
* Analyzing system logs and identifying potential issues with computer systems,
* Introducing and integrating new technologies into existing data center environments,
* Performing routine audits of systems and software,
* Performing backups and restores,
* Applying operating system updates, patches, and configuration changes,
* Installing and configuring new hardware and software,
* Adding, removing, or updating user account information, resetting passwords, etc,
* Answering technical queries,
* Responsibility for security,
* Responsibility for documenting the configuration of the system,
* Troubleshooting any reported problems,
* System performance tuning,
* Ensuring that the network infrastructure is up and running,
* Capacity planning,
* Monitoring - i.e. implementing systems that monitor the availability, health, capacity of servers, applications and other ICT infrastructure,
* Deploying, managing and supporting applications, or assisting, advising and supporting those that do, such as deployment engineers,
* Storage management - e.g. managing SAN and NAS storage,
* Conforming to technical and business policy, procedures, directives, etc, such as change management, records management and the like,
* Contributing to and implementing Disaster Recover (DR) and Business Continuity (BC) plans and planning
Systems administrators will often also be the application owners for infrastructure applications such as DNS, DHCP and directories such as LDAP or Active Directory, even if they do not run other applications in an organisation,
* Automating common or repetitive tasks.
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