From Data Centre Technician to Data Centre Technician, Systems
A step up the ladder, typically 2 years.
There’s a page for this pathway in , with its licences and local details.
Skills to build
What a Data Centre Technician, Systems needs beyond a Data Centre Technician.
Systems and virtualisation
- Administer an operating system Independent
- Diagnose a fault to a field-replaceable unit in a rack-scale system Up to Independent
- Diagnose server hardware Independent
- Install and patch a hypervisor host Independent
- Install or rebuild an operating system Independent
- Run burn-in and acceptance tests on new hardware Independent
- Run fleet runbooks and return hosts to service Independent
- Take a node out of service and return it Independent
- Update firmware and management controllers Independent
- Use the Linux and Windows command line Up to Independent
- How rack-scale accelerator systems fail Independent, desirable
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)
- ISCO-08, International Labour Organization, as published in ESCO v1.2.1. This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission. (Commission Decision 2011/833/EU on the reuse of Commission documents)