(sysprog) A generic job title that covers a variety of specialist roles such as writing low-level code that talks to directly to the operating system on a server.

Typical skills required are experience of specific operating systems, networking (tcp/ip, atm, ethernet, dns), electronic mail (pop, imap, smtp), web servers, rdbms, operating system and network security, and hardware (scsi, hard disks, and back-up devices).

Contrast: system administration.