A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be: Experience: Three years of increasingly responsible experience performing network administration, installation, and implementation, monitoring communications or operating system software and hardware, maintaining high-end computing platforms or automated business systems, technological project management, and the implementation of new systems using client server technology. The Systems Engineer is responsible to perform duties pertaining to the management of Network Operating Systems (NOS), Local Area Networks/Wide Area Networks (LAN/WANs), telecommunications networks and/or other computing platforms; and to analyze, plan, install, evaluate, monitor, test, and maintain system and application software in a personal computer, client/server, or web environment.