Web Administrators
Computer and Mathematical
The work is keeping the live web environment running: watching for intrusions and denial-of-service attacks, setting who can access what, and applying measures such as firewalls or encryption. Backups and recovery plans are kept so applications and data can be restored after a failure. When a page or server breaks, the cause is found and fixed, and patches go in on a schedule that limits downtime. Testing is part of the job, along with making or recommending the fixes those checks turn up. It suits people who like methodical monitoring, security routines, and written records of how systems are protected and restored.
Typical education: Bachelor’s Degree (4-year)
Annual Median Wage in Field (2025)
$116'580
Median Wage Market Position
$116'580
What you might do
- Find and fix web page and server problems
- Apply updates and patches without long outages
- Add firewalls and encryption to the site
- Watch servers for attacks and report breaches
- Set who can access which site areas
- Back up apps and data for disaster recovery
Skills that matter
- Monitoring sites for attacks and outages
- Diagnosing web and server failures
- Timing patches to limit downtime
- Writing backup and recovery plans
- Explaining access and security levels
- Applying firewalls and message encryption
AI & the future of this role
Site setup, content updates, monitoring, and routine QA are strong candidates for automation and managed platforms. Architecture choices and security judgment still count, yet day-to-day web operations appear especially easy for AI to absorb.
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