The system administrator is an employee of the enterprise, whose job responsibilities are to ensure the operability of the fleet of all available computer equipment, software, networks and information security in the company.
The system administrator must know: - all the basic concepts of the activity of local networks (equipment, protocols and principles of building networks); - rules for administering networks running different operating systems (Linux, Windows, Unix) - especially from the needs of the enterprise; - the basics of technical repair and maintenance of personal computers. At the same time, it is this employee who must be able to identify the causes of malfunction of personal computers, servers and must necessarily know the main technical characteristics of the constituent elements of computer equipment (monitors, processors, hard drives, motherboards, operating memory). Such an employee must have an appropriate understanding of the compatibility of various types of equipment., as well as manufacturers in relation to each other. He must know the basics of electronic equipment and be able to identify malfunctions that occur in any office equipment (printer, copier, shredder) and carry out their simple repair. The system administrator must determine when the hardware is causing the problem and when the software is causing the problem, and the worker must know the basics of information security. In this case, it is necessary to create protection of information that is located on computers and existing servers of the company's local network from unauthorized use, deliberate damage and distortion. You also need to be able to carry out anti-virus protection of the local network and specific computers from various virus attacks, malicious programs. In addition to all the listed professional skills and knowledge, the system administrator must have communication skills, patience, non-conflict, and know the basics of psychology. All this will be useful to him when talking with the users of the organization, since this specialist is a connecting person between computing equipment and the people who work on it. In turn, the manufacturers of various software products are, most often, outside Russia, so the system administrator needs knowledge English so that he can read technical documentation or other instructions without a dictionary.
