What are your responsibilities at work?

Turgon

What are your responsibilities at work?

QHalo

I oversee the Altiris system where I work which includes software deployments, imaging, asset management and patch management for desktops and soon to be contract and software licensing management. I'm a contractor but a team of one. I would consider my position senior obviously and they pay me a metric ton to do what I do, but I don't want to do this forever hence I'm upgrading my Cisco knowledge to move to something more interesting.

vCole

I do a mix. I am in a cube, and doing tickets. However, I have a say in design and deployment.

N2IT

QHalo wrote: »

I oversee the Altiris system where I work which includes software deployments, imaging, asset management and patch management for desktops and soon to be contract and software licensing management. I'm a contractor but a team of one. I would consider my position senior obviously and they pay me a metric ton to do what I do, but I don't want to do this forever hence I'm upgrading my Cisco knowledge to move to something more interesting.

Nice We utilize the Altiris suite here. I don't adminstrate the system, but utilize the asset management piece along with the imaging component.

Turgon

Cool. Iam a Tsar. My wife is Russian so Im doubly qualified

SteveLord

Senior is closest. But I am in cubicle land here (although it's small and not a huge labyrinth thankfully.) We contract several services (Email, backup, web, etc) through the state's IT division per rules, policy, red tape, etc etc. I run the show for my agency though.

Essendon

I am the backup and blackberry admin at my work. The BB admin role was dumped on me but I happily took the backup role. I am also a server admin doing tickets every now and again when I have some time left over from my main roles.

@ Turgon - I dont fit into any of those 5 choices mate. We have a decent sized network here, 300+ servers and 3000+ users in a multi-domain forest. And I am not cubed in doing tickets, nor I have a say in design (not yet, that is). Aint no supervisor either.

veritas_libertas

My responsibilities are mixed. I do Desktop Support and some Security Administration.

Turgon

Essendon wrote: »

I am the backup and blackberry admin at my work. The BB admin role was dumped on me but I happily took the backup role. I am also a server admin doing tickets every now and again when I have some time left over from my main roles.

@ Turgon - I dont fit into any of those 5 choices mate. We have a decent sized network here, 300+ servers and 3000+ users in a multi-domain forest. And I am not cubed in doing tickets, nor I have a say in design (not yet, that is). Aint no supervisor either.

That's fine. You are exceptional. You are free, large shop. There are only 10 possible criteria for a poll and even that wouldn't cover them all and any more than 5 would confuse people. Polls, just like life, have limits

Psoasman

I am currently working as a technician at a Casino. I work with the client computers, POS equipment, and the phone system.

the_Grinch

I'm back on the NOC and work the night shift. My night consists of opening tickets that are emailed/called in (depending on the issue and who they are, I may troubleshoot), monitoring the NOC board and responding to alerts (disk alerts, internet outages, etc), nightly backup checks (update the backup sheets, create tickets for failures), server reboots/software installs, Endpoint deployments, and basically anything people decide to **** on the night guy. Usually not to busy, but when it rain it pours....

millworx

I am lead network design engineer / network engineer for all extranet / intranet deployments globally. I do a lot of design, validation, testing, implementation. Writing deployment cookbooks, design documentation, and test cases. Im also responsibly for managing our Cable Video clients VPN connections back to TAC. (About 800 VPN routers under my direct control). I work mostly with the higher end equipment. ASA 5580/85, ASR Routers and the like, Nexus Switches, GSR's. I'm usually swamped with work and it's a juggle between responding to network trouble ticket, writing documentation and designing and deploying new designs. 60+ hours a week of pure hell!

echo465

My title is 'Network Administrator', and I'm directly responsible for anything in our organization with a Cisco logo on it -- Switches, ASA's, IP telephony, etc. I'm also responsible for our VMWare infrastructure, our SAN, the wireless, Exchange, the stupid crappy Blackberry server, backups, the web filter, etc. I'm thankful that I don't primarily respond to user generated tickets, although sometimes they do get escalated to me.

Mike-Mike

Service Desk in a cube, upgraded to primarily email tickets, but I still have to take phone calls from time to time.

Essendon

echo465 wrote: »

My title is 'Network Administrator', and I'm directly responsible for anything in our organization with a Cisco logo on it -- Switches, ASA's, IP telephony, etc. I'm also responsible for our VMWare infrastructure, our SAN, the wireless, Exchange, the stupid crappy Blackberry server, backups, the web filter, etc. I'm thankful that I don't primarily respond to user generated tickets, although sometimes they do get escalated to me.

You must be one BUSY person!! I do just backups and blackberries (I concur they are sh!t) and usually am too busy for anything else.

joehalford01

I do it all, from the "hey, where did my shortcut go?" to implementing server upgrades and new systems. I'm in a management role and there is a small IT shop that we lean on for experience and labor (since i really can't do it all). I recently got some help though, an 18 year old student,20 hours per week, and he is helping my workload tremendously.

dead_p00l

I voted Senior but probably fall somewhere between there and Tsar. I'm responsible for a pretty large and diverse network. Mix of Cisco and Juniper and variety of transport platforms.

SilverGenius

Desktop Support and moving more towards Security Admin stuff. I have a cubicle, but its not to bad only 6 of them in the office. Maybe one day I will get my own office that has a door

N2IT

I work as a service team lead under an engagement manager. I have a cube, my boss has the office

However I voted run free, because essentially whatever happens in our shop I have to answer for. My boss acts more as a program manager at the moment, so it's all on me.

Everyone

dead_p00l wrote: »

I voted Senior but probably fall somewhere between there and Tsar.

Same here.

Lead role, work from home, support messaging services (Exchange, BES, IM, Fax, etc.) for 70,000+ users worldwide. I do design work, but also am the strategic leader when it comes to process improvement and automation for these systems. To top it all off, I even do tickets, but most tickets I'm sending back down to a lower level telling them to try harder.

Stiltz79

I am an Intel Server Administrator. I along with 2 other coworkers manage our Intel Server Windows Environment. I sit in a cubicle all day and work on projects. We manage about 400+ servers along with 3000+ applications. We have about 110 people in our IT Department. Ours is a cubicle maze. Our building is almost 2 miles end to end. This building includes one of our manufacturing environments also. This is the biggest company I have ever worked for. We are in 20 countries. This is my first server admin position. They pay for any certs I want, plus give me $5500 towards college every year if I want to go back. Pay is lower than industry standard but our Year End Bonus more than makes up for it. Last year our year end bonus was 51% of our yearly salary and this year our projections are in the low 70's.

elphrank0

Information Systems Administrator and IT Lead. If it plugs into a wall it's pretty much ours. I oversee too many things here. In a cube. Trying to get out of day to day level 1. There are days I am level 1-3.

Qord

I picked "cube, tickets", but I do a lot more than just tickets, and I have my own office. My title is "Senior desktop support..." but I also dabble in the wireless deployment and maintenance, minor server administration, and I'm "the printer guy" as well as (slowly) taking on licensing.

Nobylspoon

I'm really not sure where I would fit in on that list...

I'm a Resident Engineer. My office is in Austin but I live/work at one of our customer's labs in NY. Basically, I'm part of the support contract that comes with our software. My desk is in their lab and my primary role is to keep our software, along with the servers and databases, running smooth. Provide direct support when needed and offer training to the end-users that work in the lab.

Options 1 & 2: Not cubed, I have a huge office with a window (granted the view is just of the servers, not outside). Also, it isn't really my office, it is their test NOC that isn't utilized much. At least I have a wall of TV's to watch

Option 2: I'm somewhat free. The only person I report to works half way around the country. However, I don't exactly work in a small shop. Both my company and the customer are Global500 businesses.

Option 3: I'm far from Senior (only my second year in IT). Unless it's like Army of One, I'm a Senior manager of 1 (myself).

Option 4: Not even close...

Perhaps we could add one more?

Option 5: Monkey with a digital wrench (and a hammer when all else fails).

Hypntick

Free-ish. Work for a MSP so each of us handles pretty much anything and everything that comes up. BES, Some Cisco gear, Sonicwalls, Exchange, server issues, 3rd party software, AV management, SANs, etc. etc. etc. You name it, we do it. We also do the design for some of our clients who have older hardware, always fun rolling out a totally new infrastructure.

demonfurbie

im kinda in the "other" category i do just about everything and then i have to go to court and testify all the time with a crap load of paperwork

cyberguypr

Windows Sys Admin in a 200 user environment. In charge of AD, Exchange OCW, BES, AV, Barracuda spam filter, backups, WAPs, vSphere boxes. Also work on the occasional obscure issues help desk can't figure out. We get to drive projects and have a final say in many aspects which is priceless in my opinion. Environment is pretty relaxed and the engineer's advice is highly valued. Work in a cubicle, could use a window. Google-esque environment with nerf guns, toys, company sponsored beer, pop, breakfast bar, fruit, etc. Loving it.

higherho

vCole wrote: »

I do a mix. I am in a cube, and doing tickets. However, I have a say in design and deployment.

I switched Positions and I was not in charge of the Altiris system but it was bad =/ I guess it was bad because the people who managed it did not do very well. So in this new position I've been using System Center essentials and WSUS. Configuring System center was not as easy compared to WSUS