From Data Centre Technician to Data Centre Technician, Network in Australia
A step up the ladder, typically 2 years.
Skills to build
What a Data Centre Technician, Network needs beyond a Data Centre Technician.
Network deployment and operations
- Apply a base configuration and verify links Independent
- Cable and validate a back-end fabric to its map Independent
- Handle, clean, test and replace high-speed optics Independent
- Install and test outside-plant and campus fibre Independent
- Keep network as-built records Independent
- Rack, cable and console network devices Independent
- Troubleshoot network faults Independent
- IP addressing and subnetting Assisted
- Monitor, triage and escalate network alarms Assisted
- Network layers and routing Assisted
- Use a network operating system’s command line Assisted
White space and IT hardware
- Certify a fibre circuit Up to Independent
- Terminate and splice fibre Up to Independent
Procedures and documents
- Work within change management Independent
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Sources and licences
- Critical Facilities reference framework © Facility Labs. (CC BY 4.0)
- Units of competency from training.gov.au, © Commonwealth of Australia, captured 2026.10. Kept as published. (Training package content, © Commonwealth of Australia: kept as published, no adapted copies)
- Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, OSCA – Occupation Standard Classification for Australia, 2024, Version 1.0, and its correspondence to ISCO-08. CC BY 4.0. (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International)