Career Details
15-1299.01 - Web Administrators
Manage web environment design, deployment, development and maintenance activities. Perform testing and quality assurance of web sites and web applications.
Key Facts

Tasks

Core
- Back up or modify applications and related data to provide for disaster recovery.
- Determine sources of Web page or server problems, and take action to correct such problems.
- Review or update Web page content or links in a timely manner, using appropriate tools.
- Monitor systems for intrusions or denial of service attacks, and report security breaches to appropriate personnel.
- Implement Web site security measures, such as firewalls or message encryption.
- Collaborate with development teams to discuss, analyze, or resolve usability issues.
- Test backup or recovery plans regularly and resolve any problems.
- Monitor Web developments through continuing education, reading, or participation in professional conferences, workshops, or groups.
- Implement updates, upgrades, and patches in a timely manner to limit loss of service.
- Identify or document backup or recovery plans.
- Collaborate with Web developers to create and operate internal and external Web sites, or to manage projects, such as e-marketing campaigns.
- Install or configure Web server software or hardware to ensure that directory structure is well-defined, logical, and secure, and that files are named properly.
- Gather, analyze, or document user feedback to locate or resolve sources of problems.
- Develop Web site performance metrics.
- Identify or address interoperability requirements.
- Document installation or configuration procedures to allow maintenance and repetition.
- Identify, standardize, and communicate levels of access and security.
- Track, compile, and analyze Web site usage data.
- Test issues such as system integration, performance, and system security on a regular schedule or after any major program modifications.
- Recommend Web site improvements, and develop budgets to support recommendations.
- Inform Web site users of problems, problem resolutions, or application changes and updates.
- Document application and Web site changes or change procedures.
- Develop or implement procedures for ongoing Web site revision.
- Provide training or technical assistance in Web site implementation or use.
- Perform user testing or usage analyses to determine Web sites' effectiveness or usability.
- Evaluate or recommend server hardware or software.
- Correct testing-identified problems, or recommend actions for their resolution.
- Develop or document style guidelines for Web site content.
- Develop and implement marketing plans for home pages, including print advertising or advertisement rotation.
- Check and analyze operating system or application log files regularly to verify proper system performance.
- Set up or maintain monitoring tools on Web servers or Web sites.
- Develop testing routines and procedures.
- Evaluate testing routines or procedures for adequacy, sufficiency, and effectiveness.
- Test new software packages for use in Web operations or other applications.
Supplemental
- Administer internet or intranet infrastructure, including Web, file, and mail servers.
Knowledge

- 83%Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
- 82%Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
- 82%Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.
- 71%Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
- 64%Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
- 64%Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
- 63%Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
- 60%Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
- 58%Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
- 54%Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
- 54%Knowledge of administrative and clerical procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and other office procedures and terminology.
- 53%Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
Tools

- Computer data input scanners
- Desktop computers
- Laptop computers
- Personal computers
- Web servers
Technology

- Adobe Systems Adobe AcrobatHOT
- OpenText Livelink ECM
- Vignette Content Management
- Adobe Systems Adobe ActionScript
- Adobe Systems Adobe ColdFusion
- Adobe Systems Adobe Shockwave Player
- AJAXHOT
- Apache AntHOT
- Apache StrutsHOT
- Apache TomcatHOT
- Cascading Style Sheets CSSHOT
- Common gateway interface CGI
- DrupalHOT
- Dynamic hypertext markup language DHTML
- Embarcadero Delphi
- Enterprise JavaBeans
- Extensible HyperText Markup Language XHTML
- Extensible markup language XMLHOT
- Extensible stylesheet language XSL
- Hypertext markup language HTMLHOT
- IBM WebSphereHOT
- JavaScriptHOT
- Joomla
- jQueryHOT
- Microsoft .NET FrameworkHOT
- Microsoft Active Server Pages ASPHOT
- Microsoft ActiveX
- Microsoft Visual Basic Scripting Edition VBScriptHOT
- Microsoft Visual StudioHOT
- Oracle Fusion MiddlewareHOT
- Oracle JavaServer Pages JSPHOT
- PHP: Hypertext PreprocessorHOT
- Practical extraction and reporting language PerlHOT
- PythonHOT
- Sun Microsystems Java Servlet API
- Tool command language Tcl
- Adobe Systems Adobe Director
- Adobe Systems Adobe Dreamweaver
- Adobe Systems Adobe Fireworks
- Adobe Systems Adobe Flash
- Adobe Systems Adobe Flash Player
- Adobe Systems Adobe FreeHand
- Adobe Systems Adobe IllustratorHOT
- Adobe Systems Adobe InDesignHOT
- Adobe Systems Adobe Macromedia HomeSite
- Adobe Systems Adobe PageMaker
- Adobe Systems Adobe PhotoshopHOT
- Corel CorelDraw Graphics Suite
- Microsoft ExcelHOT
- Microsoft FrontPage
- Microsoft PowerPointHOT
- Microsoft VisioHOT
- Microsoft WordHOT
- Salesforce Marketing Cloud
- Sorenson Media Sorenson Squeeze
- Apache HTTP ServerHOT
- Customer information control system CICS
- Microsoft AccessHOT
- Microsoft Internet Information Service IIS
- Microsoft SQL ServerHOT
- MySQLHOT
- Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise EditionHOT
- Oracle JDBCHOT
- PostgreSQLHOT
- Structured query language SQLHOT
- Vignette Portal
- Apache Webserver
- Apple Safari
- Berkeley Internet Domain Name BIND
- Microsoft Active Directory
- Microsoft DNS Server
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Microsoft Virtual Server
- Mozilla Firefox
- Oracle Application Server
- Oracle WebLogic ServerHOT
- Red Hat WildFlyHOT
- VMWare ESX Server
- CA SiteMinder
- Firewall software
- Juniper Networks NetScreen-Security Manager
- SSL
- CitrixHOT
- Router software
- Storage area network SAN software
- Switch software
- Email software
- Microsoft ExchangeHOT
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MOSS
- Google AdWordsHOT
- Microsoft OfficeHOT
- Microsoft ProjectHOT
- Oracle Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio ManagementHOT
- Google AnalyticsHOT
- SASHOT
- WebTrends Analytics
- Hewlett Packard HP-UX
- KornShell
- LinuxHOT
- Microsoft WindowsHOT
- Oracle SolarisHOT
- Red Hat Enterprise LinuxHOT
- Shell scriptHOT
- UNIXHOT
- Oracle Fusion ApplicationsHOT
- Sony Sound Forge
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