I want to fulfill the role of webmaster at my current job. What skills do I need to work on to increase my chances of this?

Context: I have a bachelor’s and master’s degree in comp sci. After my studies, I did web design and development as a freelancer for 2 years. I also work occasionally as a freelance QA analyst for a number of design firms in the city.

I currently work as a tier 2 computer and network technician. I’ve been doing this for about 5 years now. I probably haven’t touched a website backend in all that time, aside from running a few QAs and general updates. The company I work for has a single webmaster and he will be close to retirement within the next five to ten years. I will talk to him more often to get a general idea of ​​what his daily tasks are and what are not. I was just wondering, as someone who has been a bit off the field/casually in the field in the past, if I should know anything about the field starting today. How much has changed in the more than five years I’ve been gone?

I can already code and I know the basics of OOP and data structures. I’m not good at it, but I can parse code pretty well. I know I want to learn more about servers and configuring them because I had a bad experience with a DHCP server and I want to get my confidence back.

When I think about the tech industry around the time I was freelancing, we didn’t have AI or anything like that. Ai was called machine learning and it was still emerging. The hip new kid on the block was virtualization and this crazy idea called blockchain technology. It makes me feel old and it really wasn’t that long ago.