From Senior Data Centre Technician to Data Centre Technician, Systems in Australia
A sideways move on the ladder.
Skills to build
What a Data Centre Technician, Systems needs beyond a Senior Data Centre Technician.
Systems and virtualisation
- Administer an operating system Independent
- Diagnose a fault to a field-replaceable unit in a rack-scale system 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)
- 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)