from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
systems programmer
systems programming
<job> (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 {backup} devices).
Contrast: {system administration}.
(1999-09-14)