What's your title and what do you really do?

I'll start - My title is business analyst. However I am more of a report writer and hybrid analyst data and business. More data though. I'm just curious to see how many peoples title actually align with their role. You see the system engineer doing more network work and vice versa, that to me is a huge miss sell and of course project manager, one of the most over used incorrect titls I have seen. I've seen operational managers called PM's all the way to directors and even project schedulers and even some admin assistant. Once I even seen deskside support lead called project manager. Thanks in advance in participation. If you cant think of some other title that are over used that would be cool to throw out there.

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dave330i

Title: VMware SME
Daily task: VMware SME

Master Of Puppets

Network Security Professional - while I do everything security related, I participate in everything network related too(because that's what I asked for and my boss was ok with it). So I help the network administrators with configs, planning, designing networks along with the obvious security tasks. I also do some pen testing every now and again.

Mrock4

Senior Route/Switch engineer. I pretty much do nothing but deploy LAN/WAN technologies at various customer sites around the U.S. I do some work in the Data Center and Security realms, but R&S is my primary focus.

boobobobobob

Network Engineer. I work on routers, switches, firewalls. Lately I've been working on getting HP, Brocade, and Cisco R/S to all work together in the same environment.

SteveLord

IT Specialist - Helpdesk for public citizens, board members and field staff. Desktop support, printer support, mobile device support, webmaster, database admin, technology security manager, encryption software admin, technical support for setting up conferences.

I have some degree of responsibility for anything that plugs into a wall. Although my role as a database admin will increase dramatically by year's end. Will be time to seek reclassification (promotion.)

Mike-Mike

Originally my title was Network Admin, but that was serious false advertising... more of a network monitor

spiderjericho

First of all, shout out to the Tampa and South Florida TEs.

My job title is IT Services SNCOIC (military).

Honestly, I'm more of a IT project manager for my organizations special events. I also do EKMS, some desktop support and manage all of the military personnel in my section. A waste of my talents but it's all good since I'm in Tampa due to my daughters medical situation.

Next, I'm going to try to be a network ninja.

effekted

Systems Administrator

Jack of all trades - System/Application Administration, some networking/firewall administration (low level; big tasks/troubleshooting/designs are done by our consultants that I work closely with on the requirements/implementations), PCI/security incidents, implementation/project management, client facing IT troubleshooting/implementation/hand offs.

With some folks leaving I'll also now be doing a lot more work with VMWare and SAN and a lot of other systems...lucky me. But another year or two with the new responsibilities and I'll be able to make my ticket about anywhere at a nice price.

About7Narwhal

Operations Analyst

I fill out Excel spreadsheets and run payroll. I also get an additional kick to the nuts by doing Helpdesk on Saturday.

YFZblu

Security Analyst

SIEM is the primary focus, also proxy changes and firewall changes

Essendon

Senior Systems Engineer

Backups SME, Virtualization/SAN admin. Bits of Windows tasks thrown in here and there. Dabbling in SCCM these days.

About7Narwhal

Essendon wrote: »

Bits of Windows tasks thrown in here and there.

Does "bits" of Windows tasks "here and there," has tons of MS certs...

eLs

NOC technician-

What this job really entails is monitoring clients servers and circuits. Thats it nothing else really much to it besides emailing 100% of the time if it needs work done then escalate to the people who actually troubleshoot. May call once in a blue moon to ISP to create tickets and stuff and figure out whats going on.

The job was not like I thought but I have some time to study up for my cisco in the mean time so not all bad not learning anything though. Guess my first real IT job with a known company for IT so it will look good in my resume I guess (did many years of tech support for small companies nothing to write home about).

NOC job that doesnt do anything NOC so no help for my future career goals into cisco roles.

Concerned Water

IT Service Technician

PC and thin client deployments and SCCM stuff.

N2IT

@Concerned SCCM STUFF is pretty cool. Every think about getting an SCCM certification? http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/system-center-certification.aspx#fbid=rCQobV57_GZ A friend of mine never did a certification ended up studying and passing the SCCM 2007 exam and shortly after landed a very nice job administering SCCM for a local University. Don't get me wrong he has a nice bachelors and masters which helps tremendously, but we both laugh about how he received the SCCM admin position weeks after he passed the 2007 exam. He is now working on the most recently SCOM certification, paid for by his company. Just something to stew.

Concerned Water

Thanks for mentioning. I never looked into getting a SCCM certification. I'll probably start looking at material for it and see what I feel after.

Psoasman

Main job: IT Operations Tech 2 - mostly related to desktop support, phones, POS terminals, and whatever else they tell me to do.

Second Job: Systems Admin - Everything.

FloOz

LAN/WAN Network Engineer

Pretty much anything that is on the network is our responsibility. Including Tier 3 support for desktop related issues that the desktop team can't resolve

hoktauri

Title: none (my own company, consult and do freelance)

Currently doing some WordPress site management & troubleshooting, also working on a proposal for a company I joined up with this week to take over the IT management of the local office of a large multinational nonprofit. If the proposal goes through I will be doing the management as well. Also fix home PCs and whatever else I can get my hands on, it's all money.

Qord

Senior Desktop Support Tech.: Helpdesk software and phones, installation and configuration of new computers, printers, etc., software licensing, server and lan monitoring. Light scripting/automation, server administration and migrations, and Active Directory maintenance. Getting into Hyper-V work now too (on a side note, I get to build my first server from start to finish this week!! Going to have 3 VM's riding on top of Hyper-V. Just waiting on hard drives to arrive).

N2IT

After spending 3 weeks at my new position I would agree that my title aligns with my role. I am expected to look at data and look for anomalies and also create automated solutions around QA'ing the data. I also leverage SQL 99%, VBA, Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint and a few in house developed applications. I would say I fall between a data analysis and business analysis, but they call me a BA so that's what I am. (Just wanted to follow back up)

NinjaBoy

Title: IT Manager (my post is half technical, half manglement - I mean management)

Daily task: Everything related to IT (servicedesk, proactive/reactive jobs, security, development, network/servers/desktops, virtualisation, etc...), including CCTV. Along with management responsibilities - budgets, project management, staff mangement (inc apprasials/CPD), training, etc...

gunbunnysoulja

Continuity Support: I'm a work at home resource for the company. Basically a jack of all trades role, incorporating whatever the company needs at any given time. I do SharePoint administration, Project Management, lots of research and product evaluations, troubleshooting, technical writing, web development, and some app dev.

TheNewITGuy

Sr. Systems Engineer

So what do I do? I do break/fix on desktops/servers – cisco networking, data center, virtualization (admin…), some storage (if you need something connected

), build servers, admin windows - and pretty much anything else needed really..

YuckTheFankees

Title: Security Threat Analyst

What I do: Review IDS/IPS/WAF alerts and investigate them to see if they are legit (review pcap's and snort ID's, whois, try to replicate attack in a VM, etc)

TheProf

Senior Systems Administrator - Mainly projects on Windows and VMware products... Also level 3 support if my junior colleagues are having trouble resolving issues around the infra. Other work I do includes Integration, analysis, solution architecture, etc.. whatever they throw me on to is what I do pretty much these days.

paul78

Its interesting to read all the different variations of titles. I personally would never equate a job title and a job function. To me job titles mostly are valuable only to convey seniority and rank within an organization. Personally, I prefer generic titles for myself as it creates more opportunity to a conversation if I am ever on a job search.

My other observation if anyone cares

is that as an individual progresses in their seniority, their job title and function get more generic.

My own job function could be describe as "other duties and activities as required".

NinjaBoy

paul78 wrote: »

...My own job function could be describe as "other duties and activities as required".

lol, yeah, that's a catch-all phrase for most contracts/job descriptions now a days

QHalo

About7Narwhal wrote: »

Does "bits" of Windows tasks "here and there," has tons of MS certs...

This seems rather snide.

I'm Virtualization and Storage Network Engineer. I maintain our storage arrays, and VMware environments here. Care and feeding, design work of anything new we put in etc. I also do miscellaneous Cisco changes in our Nexus environment.

j.petrov

Systems Architect, definitely not an appropriate title.

I have been in IT for less than a year. I am more of a Sales Engineer. I basically write proposals and prep quotes for our clients. I work with our projects team to determine the scope of the projects and tasks/hours involved. Basically no implementation, and definitely don't get Systems Arch $.