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Server Administrator

Job Description

As a server administrator you are directly responsible for the implementation and management of some of the most important technology in your organization; the servers. The server administrator is an expert in server operating systems as well as Active Directory. They use extensive monitoring and profiling tools to manage their environment then tune their systems to perform at or above an established level of performance and availablility.

Skills

• General
  Network Infrastructure Monitoring
  Web Services Configuration
  Network applications configuration
• Beginner
  Server operating system planning
• Intermediate
  Active Directory configuration and maintenance
  Server operating system monitoring
• Expert
  Server operating system services configuration
  Network configuration

Typical required experience

Two to five years

Responsibility scope

60 percent operations, 20 percent engineering, and 20 percent support tasks

Possible role names

• Systems administrator
• Windows Server administrator

Typical next positions

• Enterprise Administrator
• Database Administrator