< job > (sysprog) A generic job title that covers a variety of specialist roles such as writing low-level code that talks to directly to the operating system on a server .
Typical skills required are experience of specific operating systems, networking ( TCP/IP , ATM , Ethernet , DNS ), electronic mail ( POP , IMAP , SMTP ), web servers , RDBMS , operating system and network security, and hardware ( SCSI , hard disks , and back-up devices).
Contrast: system administration .
(1999-09-14)