Like what does that mean? What tasks are you completing on a day to day basis?
(Trying to decide what programs of study to apply for to hopefully have good possibilities for employment, this one seems promising but I can’t for the life of me understand exactly what it entails)
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I’m a systems engineer for a managed services provider, aka my company is the IT department for small and medium business that don’t have their IT department or help with companies that do and need some extra help. Day to day is a bit varied. I’ll work on projects like upgrading an OS on a server, configure and install a new firewall, shore up security and review and make changes for compliance needs (Like PCI or HIPAA). If I am not doing that I’ll work on trouble tickets that clients send in like email issues, application errors, PC performance issues, onboardings/offboardings, etc. A lot of that is self-inflicted on the client’s side so we spend quite a bit of time explaining why the issue happened and how to avoid it in the future. If I’m not working on projects or tickets, I’ll be training myself or seeing if there is any internal process I can improve.
Quick edit: Chect out r/sysadmin and r/msp for a broader view of my job.
It’s kind of a nonsense word. It means “I do stuff with computers”. Systems administration as a career is going away. Look into DevOps.
The word is intentionally broad. u/flower-power-123 isn’t joking, it really does mean “I do stuff with computers” — without getting specific.
I have degree in Information Systems.
The general explanation that is given is that we are people who are between developers and business. To some extent that is true.
I personlly have done programming so I write code, I have done analytics so I make charts and comb through databases, I have done definitions so I talk to business users of the software to figure out what they actually want, I have been support so I solve issues people have with the system. I have done launch of an system so I have taught users and manged expectations.
Here are some of the jobs my friends have. Programmer, Business Analyst, Requirment Engineering, DevOps, Product Owner, Project Manager, Chief Technical Officer, Agile Couch, Functional Consultant, Technical Consultant, Architect, Tester, Game Developer(art, programming, story writer marketing), Marketing(Google Analytics, SEO etc.), Data and Analytics, cyber security(white hat, penetration testing, awerness) ,controller.
I am sure I left many out. As you can see, it opens a lot of doors and depending on what you actually study or want to focus you can pretty much end up in any job.
It is impossible to say what you so day to day as it covers pretty much anything that is related to computers.