Job titles and duties, my students ask me this question after taking this course, what kind of job
am I going to be getting or what are my duties is going to be what I'm going to be working on now.
Those are the questions.
So here's the time that you should know what are the job that you should be applying for or looking
for and what you should be expecting to do when you get that job.
So the basic job that you're going to be getting is the I.T. technician, which is more of a helpdesk
technician job.
I'm not telling you to pursue for specifically for this job, but perhaps for those people who actually
have never done any kind of work in it or don't even have an educational background in it.
And coming from completely different background, I would say, and I would recommend that they should
start with it, help them feel that's one of the feel that is very, very informative.
You will get a lot of information about it.
If you already have some of the experience in it, then I would say go for system administrator job.
A system administrator is an administrator who manages the system and system is comprised of what it's
comprised of hardware, software, operating systems, networking devices, cables and all that stuff.
All that combined together makes a system.
Then the next one another higher level job is a system engineer.
At this level, you will be designing your network, your entire infrastructure, meaning you you will
be putting all the computers together, how many computers you need, how many CPU you need, and so
on and so forth.
Then of course, it becomes a senior job, senior system administrator, senior system engineers, managers,
supervisors and so on.
So these are the titles as you look for.
Now, let's talk about the duties.
What exactly are you going to be doing?
So I have this word document.
I'm going to cover all the duties one by one and of course, really quick.
OK, so here is a document and this document is also part of your hand up.
You could download it.
You could review it after the after this lesson.
So primary administration responsibility is that you will be dealing with installing operating system,
managing the hardware, firmware service, installation and configuration, upgrade Linux servers,
recover that migrate operating system from all the hardware to newer hardware.
You could do that by moving by installing a newer version of the operating system, the newer hardware
and moving all the application.
Pashman maybe learned that from the Yum command third party software installation configuration that
you're going to be dealing with many, many different applications that's going to run on your computer.
Remember, we have a hardware, then we have operating system.
Without the application, both of them are useless.
So you do need applications to run on top of them.
And once you run it, who manages that, you are going to be managing them.
You're not going to be like you're really dealing with configuration of it or using them.
The users are different as compared to you guys.
We're going to be installing it then different type of issues or troubleshooting that you're going to
be dealing with almost everyday like servers is running slow disk is down and is not working.
Mount's issues cannot restart the servers can't get to the DNS review all of them one by one.
And I assure you, I've covered almost 95 percent of all these issues in our training class.
So can I login as route using SSL protocol?
Incorrect hostname memory is high or full.
What do you need to do?
Backup is not working.
Of course, most of the time backup is a third party software.
You're going to be learning that once you're going to be joining set up cron job or scheduler job,
you're going to be setting those up.
Then we have documentation.
Every job in it, especially, I would say, requires you to do the documentation.
What that documentation is, that issue comes in.
You documented how you resolve it.
And if there's a new system to do the installation, you follow the documentation or you create your
own documentation, then you're going to be sitting down the meeting.
Your manager wants you to sit down, give them the progress report, what you did the whole week, or
you probably are going to be meeting with vendors who are going to be coming in with new technologies
to introduce new technologies to me is going to be happen almost at least two or three times a week.
So expect that additional tools that you're going to be working with, like monitoring tools.
How are you going to they're going to be a monitoring tool that monitors your entire infrastructure.
Right.
So who manages that tool?
You you manage that tool documentation tool, ticketing system.
Every issue that comes in most likely is going to be.
Generated inside of a ticket, you get a ticket, you look at the ticket, and then you resolve the
issue, put in your resolution inside the ticket and close it.
And that's also one of the way the management actually kind of measures your performance.
How many tickets you close, how fast you close the ticket.
So this is a way for them to to kind of quantify your performance.
Then you have configuration tool, other tools like RedHat, satellite puppet, Quixtar Active Directory,
all different type of tools.
You're going to be working with Wenda relation.
RedHat, if you're going to be working at Linux, most likely you're going to be dealing a lot with
RedHat.
So I would highly recommend you that you go over to every website listed here, register yourself there,
sign up there.
You will be getting starting getting the new releases, new updates and everything.
So stay ahead of all the technologies that they have.
RedHat, HP, Dell, Cisco, VMware, third party vendors, Microsoft, all these companies you're going
to be dealing with almost every day, because once the issues is not being resolved, most likely you're
going to be escalating to vendors.
Then third party applications support you are going to be providing you're going to be dealing with
licensing every product that you buy or every product that you have in your environment that you have
installed.
They you have to pay for it.
And it comes through the license.
Of course, there is someone who has to manage it.
Well, sometimes managers manage those licenses.
Sometimes they give their responsibility to system administrator to manage that.
So keep that in mind.
Other job related tasks are like you're going to be beat, you're going to be on call.
What that means is if a team has six people, you're going to be getting on call every sixth week.
You're going to be they're going to be giving you a phone, a laptop.
So when you are home or when you are home after hours or over the weekend, an issue comes and you have
to be present, not at the office location, but present to respond to that issue.
So that is being on call.
Be prepared for that recommendation.
You're going to be recommending for new technology.
How are you going to be recommending?
Well, you have to attend seminars.
You have to attend and keep keep up to date with all the technologies.
As I said, sign of it.
All those windows attend training.
You're going to be going with a lot of training.
The the the companies are going to be providing you trainings, project management, evaluate third
party tools, which is more of a posse related tasks.
So these are some of the job's duties that you are going to be working.
There are more.
There are less depending on the environment.
Sometimes in a smaller environment.
Sometimes it's a bigger.
If it's a smaller, you might have to wear many different hats, meaning you're going to be doing a
lot of stuff, but it's good for you because you're starting your career.
But if it's you've been there, you probably want to work for a bigger company that has acquired laid
out infrastructure in the team.
And probably your duty is going to be separate from each other.
So that's what about it?
So I hope you got the gist of it and good luck.