A system administrator describes the role of a person whose job includes maintenance duties for the long-term support of a computer system.
Typical daily tasks for a system administrator include:
- password reset
- printer queue troubleshooting
- userid add/modify/delete
- troubleshooting, and answering questions
- perform backup and restore operations of files
- Operating System configuration changes
- software updates, for the OS or the application(s) it runs
- hardware changes
- documenting the configuration of the system
- keep the system operating
- maintain the security of the system
- keep the application running
- participate in most changes to the system
- own the passwords to the administrative userids
- DBA
- Application Analyst
- Programmer
- Network Specialist
- System Architect