The Role and Responsibilities of the System’s Administrator

Background

So, what is the job of a system administrator? This professional builds and manages IT infrastructures taking care of security issues, software and hardware management / deployment. It’s also common to deliver to this IT staff some development / programming roles specially on automating management roles (ie. scripting) though they are not Software Engineers (Kichel, 2003). One of the main requirements of a system’s administrator is to be versatile with a wide variety of skills. The best system administrators are often quite general, both theoretically and practically. From making or repairing wiring cable installations, installing operating systems or software applications, correcting problems and errors in the systems to developing scripts, software, planning, constructing and managing databases and also training company users, their main objective could be resumed as: to automate a large number of common tasks and increase the overall work performance in the organization.