Network Admin

As a Network Administrator, your primary responsibility will be to manage, oversee, and maintain an organization’s computer network and ensure that all the computer networks are running smoothly. Your area of expertise will generally include local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), Virtual Private Networks, (VPN), and Intranets, to name a few. You will have to organize, install, and provide support for all these systems.

Any organization/company that uses multiple computer systems or software platforms needs a Network Administrator to efficiently coordinate, integrate, and connect different computer systems while simultaneously monitoring the communication systems to ensure that data/information flows freely and smoothly within the organization. Network Administrators are also sometimes known as Systems Administrator or LAN Administrator.

Key roles and responsibilities:

• To design, develop, install, troubleshoot, repair and maintain all kinds of computer network systems including LAN, VPN, cloud-based systems as well as firewalls, routers, switches, and other network interfaces.
• To offer technical support for a multi-site enterprise level WAN, including planning, implementation/expansion, maintenance, and troubleshooting functions.
• To prepare and maintain documentation of network configurations and cable layouts.
• To design, deploy, and administer the Wireless Infrastructure and supporting systems.
• To analyze and monitor server security and make recommendations or fix security holes, if any.
• To research and suggest innovative approaches/solutions for performing system administration tasks.
• To offer hardware and OS support for corporate and field computer systems environment, UNIX, Linux, Windows, etc.
• To develop actionable strategies for installing and combining new server hardware and applications.
• To offer support for third-party computer applications and maintain proper connectivity and security of the network.
• To address and resolve all kinds of problems/queries reported by the end user/client.
• To manage the telecommunication needs of the organization.
• To train team members on the appropriate use of new hardware or software or other systems.

• Investigative: You should have interests for Investigative Occupations. Investigative occupations involve working with ideas and quite a lot of thinking, often abstract or conceptual thinking. These involve learning about facts and figures; involve the use of data analysis, assessment of situations, decision making and problem-solving.
• Realistic: You should have interests for Realistic Occupations. Realistic occupations involve more practical and hands-on activities than paperwork or office work. Realistic occupations often involve physical activities for getting things done using various tools and equipment. 
• Conventional: You should have interests for Conventional Occupations. Conventional occupations involve repetitive and routine tasks as well as fixed processes or procedures for getting things done. These occupations involve working more with data, systems, and procedures and less with ideas or creativity.

Personality traits:

• You are always or mostly organized in your day-to-day life and activities.
• You are always or mostly careful about your actions and behavior.
• You are always calm or generally remain calm in most situations.
• You can always act independently or could do so in most situations.

Skills:

• Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, understanding the points being made by others, asking questions, etc.
• Critical Thinking: Skills in the analysis of complex situations, using logic and reasoning to understand the situations and take appropriate actions or make interpretations and inferences.
• Problem Solving: Skills in analysis and understanding of problems, evaluating various options to solve the problems and using the best option to solve the problems.
• Judgment and Decision Making: Skills in considering the pros and cons of various decision alternatives; considering costs and benefits; taking appropriate and suitable decisions.
• Troubleshooting: Skills in determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.
• Systems Evaluation: Skills in identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
• Systems Analysis: Skills in determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, or the environment will affect outcomes.
• Time Management: Skills in prioritizing work, managing time effectively.

Knowledge:

• English Language: Knowledge about English grammar, words, spelling, sentence construction, using English to communicate with others, reading in English, etc.
• Telecommunication and Networking: Knowledge about telecommunication network, telecommunication technologies, network management and operations of various equipment and systems for transmission and broadcasting.
• Mathematics: Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, trigonometry, statistics, and other mathematical disciplines and their applications.
• Computers: Knowledge of computer hardware and software, computer programming, computer networks, computer,and mobile applications.
• Customer Service: Knowledge about how to provide customer services. This includes understanding customer needs, helping customers to use products and services, answering customer queries, handling customer complaints and grievances, and evaluating customer satisfaction.