sysadmin
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sysadmin
A portmanteau of "system administrator," referring to someone who is responsible for maintaining and operating a computer system or network at a hardware or software level. We'll need to ask the sysadmins to check the servers after the power surge. The sysadmin is currently installing some new security updates to address the recent breaches by hackers.