Jobs / DevOps, SRE, and IT operations / 15-1244.00
Network and Computer Systems Administrators
Install, configure, and maintain an organization's local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), data communications network, operating systems, and physical and virtual servers. Perform system monitoring and verify the integrity and availability of hardware, network, and server resources and systems. Review system and application logs and verify completion of scheduled jobs, including system backups. Analyze network and server resource consumption and control user access. Install and upgrade software and maintain software licenses. May assist in network modeling, analysis, planning, and coordination between network and data communications hardware and software.
- US jobs
- 314,340
- Median wage
- $99,130 a year
- Job family
- DevOps, SRE, and IT operations
Can agents do the work of network and computer systems administrators?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, DevOps, SRE, and IT operations:
- Task levelPartialMixed. On SREGym, the best agent fixes 72.2% of injected faults end to end. On ITBench-AA, no model names the root cause of more than half of Kubernetes incidents (best 47%). Infrastructure as code has only generation tests with 2024-era results (IaC-Eval, 36.7%). We found no public benchmark with recent results that tests agents making Terraform changes to live infrastructure.
- Project levelUnexploredNo benchmark in our collection tests operations work at project scale, such as a multi-day migration, a platform upgrade, or an on-call rotation.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in devops, sre, and it operations, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 36.7%GPT-4 with retrieval-augmented generation · 2024Emerging
- 47%Claude Opus 4.7 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) · 27 May 2026Emerging
- OSWorld-Verifiedby HKU, Salesforce AI Research, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Waterloo90.2%Intelligence-Indeed Agent · 25 Jul 2026Saturated
- 84.7%NexAU-AHE + GPT-5.5 · 23 Apr 2026Retired
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Plan, coordinate, and implement network security measures to protect data, software, and hardware.
- Perform data backups and disaster recovery operations.
- Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware, software, or other network and system problems, and replace defective components when necessary.
- Maintain and administer computer networks and related computing environments, including computer hardware, systems software, applications software, and all configurations.
- Configure, monitor, and maintain email applications or virus protection software.
- Confer with network users about solutions to existing system problems.
- Operate master consoles to monitor the performance of computer systems and networks and to coordinate computer network access and use.
- Maintain logs related to network functions, as well as maintenance and repair records.
- Monitor network performance to determine whether adjustments are needed and where changes will be needed in the future.
- Design, configure, and test computer hardware, networking software and operating system software.
- Maintain an inventory of parts for emergency repairs.
- Perform routine network startup and shutdown procedures, and maintain control records.
Other job titles for this occupation (48)
LAN Administrator (Local Area Network Administrator) · LAN Specialist (Local Area Network Specialist) · Network Administrator (Network Admin) · Network Analyst · Network Coordinator · Network Engineer · Network Manager · Network Specialist · Systems Engineer · Application Security Administrator · Application Systems Administrator · Computer Support Specialist · Computer Systems Security Administrator (Computer Systems Security Admin) · E-Mail System Administrator (Electronic Mail System Administrator) · Enterprise Systems Administrator · Hardware Installation Coordinator · Information Systems Administrator · Information Systems Operator · Internet Systems Administrator · Internetwork Expert (CCIE) · IS Coordinator (Information Systems Coordinator) · IT Administrator (Information Technology Administrator) · IT Analyst (Information Technology Analyst) · IT Systems Admin (Information Technology Systems Administrator) · LAN Systems Administrator (Local Area Network Systems Administrator) · Mainframe Systems Administrator · Network Control Analyst · Network Professional (CCNP) · Network Security Administrator · Network Support Administrator · Network Support Coordinator · Network Support Manager · Network Support Specialist · Network Systems Administrator · Network Systems Coordinator · Network Technician · Network Transport Administrator · Networking Administrator · Provider Network Manager · Server Administrator · Software Manager · Systems Administrator (Systems Admin) · Systems Operator · Systems Specialist · Systems Tester Administrator · WAN Administrator (Wide Area Network Administrator) · WAN Systems Administrator (Wide Area Network Systems Administrator) · Windows Administrator