What would you do as a Systems administrator?
Systems administrators
- usually work regular business hours
- usually work in offices
- need to be organised, accurate and identify and solve problems
Tasks
- maintain hardware, software, network and server systems
- manage data communication networks
- write security policies
- fix hardware and software problems
- assess system performance
- test new computer systems
- write system recovery plans
- organise and store data
- train people to use computer systems
- provide technical support
How can you become a Systems administrator?
You usually need a qualification and experience to become a systems administrator.
You may need
- a relevant tertiary qualification in information systems, computer science or similar area
- experience in similar work
If you're in school
You usually need NCEA Level 3 to do the study or training for this job.
