Network Administrators provide day-to-day onsite administrative support for software users in a variety of work environments, including professional offices, small businesses, government, and corporations. Their duties may include:

Maintaining, troubleshooting, and administering the use of local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), hardware, software and related computer equipment Monitoring and implementing network activities.

Designing and configuring networks, recommending purchases of application servers, peripherals, and software.

Evaluating and installing computer hardware, networking software, and operating system software.

Providing problem-solving services to network users.

Performing data backups and disaster recovery operations.