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Occupation abstract
This occupation is present in organisations, giant and small, in all sectors, and inside public, personal and voluntary organisations.
Organisations more and more depend on pc and communications techniques in all areas of their operations and decision-making processes. It’s due to this fact essential to make sure the optimum efficiency and upkeep of techniques. An Info Communication Technician (ICT) is crucial to attaining this.
The broad objective of the ICT occupation is to ship environment friendly operation and management of the IT and/or Telecommunications infrastructure (comprising bodily or digital {hardware}, software program, community providers and information storage) both on-premises or to end-users provisioned as cloud providers that’s required to ship and assist the knowledge techniques wants of an organisation.
The occupation consists of contributing to the preparation for brand new or modified providers, operation of the change course of, the upkeep of regulatory, authorized {and professional} requirements, the constructing and administration of techniques and parts in virtualised and cloud computing environments and the monitoring of efficiency of techniques and providers in relation to their contribution to enterprise efficiency, their safety and their sustainability.
The Info Communications Technician makes their contribution by way of the appliance of infrastructure administration instruments to automate the provisioning, testing, deployment and monitoring of infrastructure parts.
An Info Communications Technician (ICT) offers assist to inside and/or exterior clients, by utilizing instruments or techniques to drawback remedy and trouble-shoot routine and non-routine issues. This occupation helps shoppers/clients with their techniques. They obtain this by way of monitoring and sustaining the techniques and/or platforms to maximise productiveness and consumer expertise.
An ICT could possibly be putting in and configuring pc techniques, diagnosing {hardware} and/or software program faults, fixing technical and purposes issues, both remotely or in individual. Some examples of those points are gradual efficiency, connection issues, and an incapability to entry information.
The work of an ICT entails enterprise an enormous array of specialist roles supporting enterprise crucial necessities and deal with buyer options. Networking, Server, IT Necessities, Safe Communications, programming, and databases are simply an instance of typical duties and tasks undertaken throughout the doubtless areas of employment.
Of their each day work, an worker on this occupation interacts with all kinds of inside or exterior customers of digital techniques, by way of digital channels, remotely and/or nose to nose.
An worker on this occupation might be chargeable for prioritising techniques assist duties as they come up and for monitoring and sustaining system efficiency. They might work alone or as a part of a workforce however will escalate issues in keeping with their organisation’s insurance policies and Service Stage Agreements. For instance, if the duty is probably not accomplished on premise, it might must be referred to an exterior specialist.
The Help Technician position is desk primarily based resolving system consumer queries and resolving faults in a helpdesk surroundings. For instance, a Help Technician in a Journey Agent would use a system to handle their buyer bookings and when the system fails it wants rectifying quickly with the intention to cut back the monetary affect and harm to buyer popularity. The enterprise would contact a Help Technician to report the issue and both get it mounted or escalated to an engineer.
A Community Technician position is often desk primarily based however could contain visits to shopper’s premises to resolve points. For instance, a Community Technician working in a college or a university they might be putting in a pc lab as a coaching suite together with cabling and {hardware} necessities. They might be required to put in cloud providers to assist a enterprise enlargement and supply higher community providers.
In a contact centre surroundings, they might use community administration instruments to gather and report on community load and efficiency statistics to enhance industrial outcomes.
In a retail financial institution they might contribute to the implementation of upkeep and set up work utilizing commonplace procedures and instruments to hold out outlined system backups, restoring information the place obligatory.
A Digital Communications Technician could also be desk or field-based resolving faults and points with communications techniques. For instance, working in a defence organisation operates as an On-line Community Technician they’d be on the coronary heart of each mission fixing advanced points, enabling the safe change of mission crucial and sometimes High-Secret data. It might be their accountability to manage and supply specialist communications and IT gear together with categorized data and cryptographic materials to ensure Operational Functionality is delivered to the Command.
A digital communications technician working for a big telecom’s organisation could possibly be concerned within the construct, check and integration of end-to-end buyer options to assist buyer order supply. To not point out the construct, check and upkeep of core and cell radio entry networks, working with each inside and exterior clients.
A digital communications technician working for a big telecom’s organisation could possibly be concerned within the construct, check and integration of end-to-end buyer options to assist buyer order supply. To not point out the construct, check and upkeep of core and cell radio entry networks, working with each inside and exterior clients.
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Typical job titles embody:
1st & 2nd line assist telecoms technician
Cloud technician
Communications technician
Cyber/safety assist
Information centre assist technician
First-line assist
Assist desk assist
It subject technician
It assist analyst
It assist officer
Upkeep assist technician
Community subject operative.
Community assist
Workplace it technician
Telecommunications technician
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Digital Communications Technician duties
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Data
K1: Approaches to again up and storage options
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K2: Fundamental parts of technical documentation and its interpretation
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K3: Ideas of root trigger drawback fixing utilizing fault diagnostics for troubleshooting
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K4: Ideas of primary community addressing for instance binary
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K5: primary consciousness of the rules of cloud and cloud-based providers
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K6: basic rules of digital networks and parts
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K7: rules of cultural consciousness and the way range impacts on supply of assist duties.
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K8: strategies of communication together with stage of technical terminology to make use of to technical and non-technical stakeholders
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K9: several types of upkeep and preventative measures to scale back the incidence of faults
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K10: key rules of safety together with the position of Individuals, Product and Course of in safe techniques for instance entry and encryption necessities
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K11: fundamentals of bodily networks and parts
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K12: approaches to documenting duties, findings, actions taken and final result for instance, use of activity monitoring and ticketing techniques
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K13: primary consciousness of laws in relation to disposal of waste supplies for instance Waste Digital and Electrical rules (WEEE)
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K14: basic rules of working techniques, {hardware} system architectures and gadgets
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K15: rules of distant operation of gadgets together with how one can deploy and securely combine cell gadgets right into a community
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K16: basic rules of peripherals for instance: printers and scanners
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K17: rules of virtualisation of servers, purposes and networks
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K18: rules of catastrophe restoration, how a catastrophe restoration plan works and their position inside it
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K19: rules of Check Plans, their position and significance
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K20: fundamentals of objective, creation and upkeep of asset registers
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K21: approaches to system upgrades and updates and their significance
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K22: approaches to interpretation of log information, occasion viewer and system instruments
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K23: primary parts of community infrastructure architectures together with WiFi and wired networks
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K24: Ideas of OSI layers
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K25: Ideas of cloud and community structure (together with Wi-Fi)
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K26: Ideas of DNS / DHCP
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K27: Consciousness of Cloud platforms, corresponding to AWS, Azure, or GCP
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K28: Ideas of LANs and WANs
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K29: Approaches to virtualisation of servers, purposes, and networks
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K30: Ideas of community protocols
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K31: Ideas of API’s and Internet Providers
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K32: The several types of cloud storage
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K33: Again up procedures and their significance
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K34: Ideas of databases and migration
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K35: Key rules of Cloud Safety and firewalls
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K36: Consciousness of DevOps methodology and instruments, corresponding to Puppet, Chef, Git, Docker
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K37: Fundamental parts of community communication architectures for instance, {hardware}, software program, protocols and connection mediums.
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K38: consciousness of the aim of firewalls
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K39: several types of connectivity and cabling for instance bodily and distant
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K40: consciousness of community protocols
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K41: The aim of digital communications applied sciences for instance, {hardware}, digital and mobile applied sciences
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K42: Fundamental elements affecting community efficiency together with faults and error management
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K43: Ideas of digital check and diagnostic gear utilization
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K44: Fundamental rules of VPN and Distant Entry Safety for instance transmission applied sciences
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Abilities
S1: Interpret and prioritise inside or exterior buyer’s necessities in keeping with organisation’s coverage
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S2: Apply the suitable instruments and strategies to undertake fault discovering and rectification
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S3: apply Steady Skilled Growth to assist obligatory enterprise output and technical developments
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S4: Function safely and securely throughout platforms and obligations sustaining the safety of private information of inside and exterior stakeholders
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S5: Talk with all ranges of stakeholders, preserving them knowledgeable of progress and managing escalation the place applicable
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S6: Develop and preserve efficient working relationships with colleagues, clients and different related stakeholders
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S7: Handle and prioritise the allotted workload successfully making greatest use of time and sources
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S8: Full documentation related to the duty and escalate the place applicable
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S9: Set up or undertake primary software program upgrades,both bodily or remotely
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S10: Set up and diagnose the extent of the IT assist activity, in keeping with the organisation’s insurance policies and Service Stage Agreements
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S11: Present distant/F2F assist to resolve buyer necessities
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S12: Keep a protected working surroundings for personal private security and others in keeping with Well being & Security applicable to the duty
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S13: Determine and scope the very best resolution knowledgeable by the system information related to the duty
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S14: Check and consider the system’s efficiency and compliance with buyer necessities.
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S15: Escalate non routine issues in keeping with procedures
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S16: Use primary scripting to execute the related duties for instance PowerShell, Linux
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S17: Perform routine upkeep throughout techniques, (corresponding to IT, Communications), guaranteeing organisational compliance always
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S18: Apply the required safety, in keeping with entry and/or encryption necessities
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S19: Use a spread of Cabling or Connectors gear in keeping with technical necessities for instance bodily or remotely
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S20: Check and consider community environments
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S21: Monitor efficiency and utilization of a community
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S22: Deploy purposes on a community
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S23: Arrange storage and information entry for workers
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S24: Apply obligatory safety measures, in keeping with entry necessities to a community
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S25: Perform routine upkeep throughout community techniques, guaranteeing organisational compliance
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S26: Monitor network-related workloads together with DNS and firewalls
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S27: Set up or undertake primary upgrades, both bodily or remotely
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S28: Set up digital communication or telecommunications techniques by way of, for instance cabling and connecting gear.
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S29: Determine a spread of instruments and or diagnostic gear, for instance, {Hardware} or Software program parts, to resolve Communications or Telecommunications necessities.
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S30: Undertake primary telecommunications actions, in response to an allotted activity, designated obligations, directions or buyer’s necessities.
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S31: Use data essential to determine operational points and rectify or escalate accordingly in keeping with coverage
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Behaviours
B1: Works professionally, taking initiative as applicable and performing with an moral strategy
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B2: Communicates technical and non-technical data in a wide range of conditions to assist efficient working with inside or exterior stakeholders
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B3: Demonstrates a productive and organised strategy to their work
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B4: Self-motivated, for instance takes accountability to finish the job.
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{Qualifications}
English & Maths
Apprentices with out stage 2 English and maths might want to obtain this stage previous to taking the Finish-Level Evaluation. For these with an schooling, well being and care plan or a legacy assertion, the apprenticeship’s English and maths minimal requirement is Entry Stage 3. A British Signal Language (BSL) qualification is an alternative choice to the English qualification for these whose main language is BSL.
Skilled recognition
This commonplace aligns with the next skilled recognition:
Further particulars
Occupational Stage:
3
Length (months):
18
Evaluate
This apprenticeship commonplace might be reviewed after three years
