Assist scientists, technologists, or related professionals in building, maintaining, modifying, or using geographic information systems (gis) databases. They also perform some custom application development or provide user support.

Research or develop geospatial technologies. They produce databases, perform applications programming, or coordinate projects. They specialize in areas such as agriculture, mining, health care, retail trade, urban planning, or military intelligence.

Manage web environment design, deployment, development and maintenance activities. They perform testing and quality assurance of web sites and web applications.

Design and develop solutions to complex applications problems, system administration issues, or network concerns. They perform systems management and integration functions.

Develop and execute software test plans in order to identify software problems and their causes.

Analyze, test, troubleshoot, and evaluate existing network systems, such as local area network (lan), wide area network (wan), and internet systems or a segment of a network system. They perform network maintenance to ensure networks operate correctly with minimal interruption.

Provide technical assistance to computer users. They answer questions or resolve computer problems for clients in person, or via telephone or electronically. They provide assistance concerning the use of computer hardware and software, including printing, installation, word processing, electronic mail, and operating systems.

Design or configure voice, video, and data communications systems. They supervise installation and post installation service and maintenance.

Design and implement computer and information networks, such as local area networks, wide area networks, intranets or extranets. They perform network modeling, analysis, and planning. They design network and computer security measures. They research and recommend network and data communications hardware and software.

Install, configure, and support an organization's local area network, wide area network, and internet systems or a segment of a network system. They monitor network to ensure network availability to all system users. They monitor and test web site performance to ensure web sites operate correctly and without interruption.