ICT security administrator

What the work can involve

The work usually sits close to infrastructure, networks, cloud services, databases and user access. Daily tasks can include applying security policies, checking logs, handling incidents, documenting risks and keeping backup or recovery routines usable.

Skills and specializations

Useful specializations include network security, identity and access management, cloud security, database protection, vulnerability checks, computer forensics and personal data protection. The role needs careful documentation because small permission or configuration changes can affect many users.

Salary context

Salary context is shaped by the systems protected, incident responsibility, on-call expectations, cloud or network depth, audit duties and whether the role only administers controls or also designs security strategy.

Career paths

Experience can grow from service desk, network administration, system administration or database work into security administration, incident response, security engineering, risk management or information security leadership.

Good to know

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Editorial note

This guide gives editorial career context for ICT security administrator work. It is not official labour-market statistics or salary data.

Alternative labels

Occupation group

Database and network professionals not elsewhere classified (2529)

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