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What do I do?
This is yet another question regarding job titles. With the huge cuts last year and the lack of a state budget so far this year (much less a university budget), this is a nervous time for my coworkers and I. My official title is "Systems Engineer" which (to me) is so broad of a title that dozens of different positions actually fall under this category. Let me list some of my actual responsibilities and ask you for a more accurate job title. My primary responsibility is ALL of the publicly available computers in our department. This covers roughly 250 PCs, running the gamut from a totally locked down version of XP (browsers, office viewers, pdf viewer, and nothing else), up through full Office and Adobe suites available to university affiliates. I created the base image, security model, software restrictions, software allowances, patching schedule, etc. All of this is managed through your bog standard windows tools: AD, Group Policy, SCCM (née SMS) and so on.
(And of course, these need to be secured against novice users clicking on every popup they see, as well as bored CS students trying to root the systems and everything in between... all while ensuring access to the huge number of third party content we subscribe to.)
Secondary responsibilities include higher level support for 700ish staff PCs when the first line of defense is stumped or otherwise unavailable.
Here's the catch: Do to internal politics, my group has *no* server access. At all. Ever.
So. What is a more accurate job title?
(And of course, these need to be secured against novice users clicking on every popup they see, as well as bored CS students trying to root the systems and everything in between... all while ensuring access to the huge number of third party content we subscribe to.)
Secondary responsibilities include higher level support for 700ish staff PCs when the first line of defense is stumped or otherwise unavailable.
Here's the catch: Do to internal politics, my group has *no* server access. At all. Ever.
So. What is a more accurate job title?
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