Server Administrator Job Role

Sep 01, 2011

Job Description

As a server administrator, you are in charge of implementing and managing some of the most important technology in your organization—the servers. You use extensive monitoring and profiling tools to manage the network and tune systems so they perform at optimal levels. You are an expert in Active Directory, and you have an in-depth understanding of network protocols, and file and directory security.

Possible Job Titles

Systems administrator
Windows server administrator

Skills and Experience

General

  • Monitor network infrastructures
  • Configure Web services
  • Configure network applications

Beginner

  • Plan server operating systems

Intermediate

  • Configure and maintain Active Directory
  • Monitor server operating systems
  • Install and maintain hardware

Expert

  • Configure server operating system services
  • Configure networks

Typical Required Experience

  • Three to five years

Responsibility Scope

  • 60 percent operations
  • 20 percent engineering
  • 20 percent support tasks