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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 methods in all areas of their operations and decision-making processes. It’s subsequently essential to make sure the optimum efficiency and upkeep of methods. An Data Communication Technician (ICT) is essential 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 companies and information storage) both on-premises or to end-users provisioned as cloud companies that’s required to ship and assist the data methods wants of an organisation.
The occupation contains contributing to the preparation for brand new or modified companies, operation of the change course of, the upkeep of regulatory, authorized {and professional} requirements, the constructing and administration of methods and parts in virtualised and cloud computing environments and the monitoring of efficiency of methods and companies in relation to their contribution to enterprise efficiency, their safety and their sustainability.
The Data Communications Technician makes their contribution by means of the appliance of infrastructure administration instruments to automate the provisioning, testing, deployment and monitoring of infrastructure parts.
An Data Communications Technician (ICT) gives assist to inside and/or exterior clients, by utilizing instruments or methods to downside clear up and trouble-shoot routine and non-routine issues. This occupation helps purchasers/clients with their methods. They obtain this by means of monitoring and sustaining the methods and/or platforms to maximise productiveness and consumer expertise.
An ICT might be putting in and configuring pc methods, diagnosing {hardware} and/or software program faults, fixing technical and functions issues, both remotely or in individual. Some examples of those points are gradual efficiency, connection issues, and an incapacity to entry information.
The work of an ICT includes endeavor an unlimited array of specialist roles supporting enterprise essential necessities and deal with buyer options. Networking, Server, IT Necessities, Safe Communications, programming, and databases are simply an instance of typical duties and initiatives undertaken inside the probably areas of employment.
Of their each day work, an worker on this occupation interacts with all kinds of inside or exterior customers of digital methods, by means of digital channels, remotely and/or nose to nose.
An worker on this occupation shall be chargeable for prioritising methods assist duties as they come up and for monitoring and sustaining system efficiency. They might work alone or as a part of a crew however will escalate issues consistent with their organisation’s insurance policies and Service Degree Agreements. For instance, if the duty is probably not accomplished on premise, it might should be referred to an exterior specialist.
The Help Technician position is desk based mostly 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 so as to scale back the monetary impression and injury to buyer popularity. The enterprise would contact a Help Technician to report the issue and both get it fastened or escalated to an engineer.
A Community Technician position is often desk based mostly however could contain visits to consumer’s premises to resolve points. For instance, a Community Technician working in a college or a school 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 companies to assist a enterprise growth and supply higher community companies.
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 normal procedures and instruments to hold out outlined system backups, restoring information the place vital.
A Digital Communications Technician could also be desk or field-based resolving faults and points with communications methods. 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 essential and sometimes Prime-Secret info. It might be their duty to manage and supply specialist communications and IT tools together with categorised info and cryptographic materials to ensure Operational Functionality is delivered to the Command.
A digital communications technician working for a big telecom’s organisation might 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 cellular radio entry networks, working with each inside and exterior clients.
A digital communications technician working for a big telecom’s organisation might 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 cellular radio entry networks, working with each inside and exterior clients.
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Typical job titles embrace:
1st & 2nd line assist telecoms technician
1st and 2nd line assist telecoms technician
Cloud technician
Communications technician
Cyber or safety assist
Knowledge centre assist technician
First-line assist
Assist desk assist
It area technician
It assist analyst
It assist officer
Upkeep assist technician
Community area operative.
Community assist
Workplace it technician
Telecommunications technician
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KSBs
Information
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 downside fixing utilizing fault diagnostics for troubleshooting
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K4: Ideas of fundamental community addressing for instance binary
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K5: fundamental consciousness of the rules of cloud and cloud-based companies
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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 methods 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 consequence for instance, use of job monitoring and ticketing methods
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K13: fundamental 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 methods, {hardware} system architectures and units
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K15: rules of distant operation of units together with deploy and securely combine cellular units 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, functions 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 Take a look at 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 recordsdata, occasion viewer and system instruments
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K23: fundamental 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, equivalent 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, functions, 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, equivalent 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: Foremost components affecting community efficiency together with faults and error management
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K43: Ideas of digital check and diagnostic tools 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 consistent 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 vital enterprise output and technical developments
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S4: Function safely and securely throughout platforms and obligations sustaining the safety of non-public information of inside and exterior stakeholders
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S5: Talk with all ranges of stakeholders, conserving 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 assets
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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 fundamental software program upgrades,both bodily or remotely
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S10: Set up and diagnose the extent of the IT assist job, consistent with the organisation’s insurance policies and Service Degree 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 consistent with Well being & Security applicable to the duty
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S13: Determine and scope the most effective answer knowledgeable by the system information related to the duty
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S14: Take a look at and consider the system’s efficiency and compliance with buyer necessities.
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S15: Escalate non routine issues consistent with procedures
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S16: Use fundamental scripting to execute the related duties for instance PowerShell, Linux
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S17: Perform routine upkeep throughout methods, (equivalent to IT, Communications), making certain organisational compliance always
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S18: Apply the required safety, consistent with entry and/or encryption necessities
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S19: Use a spread of Cabling or Connectors tools consistent with technical necessities for instance bodily or remotely
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S20: Take a look at and consider community environments
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S21: Monitor efficiency and utilization of a community
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S22: Deploy functions on a community
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S23: Arrange storage and information entry for employees
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S24: Apply vital safety measures, consistent with entry necessities to a community
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S25: Perform routine upkeep throughout community methods, making certain 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 fundamental upgrades, both bodily or remotely
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S28: Set up digital communication or telecommunications methods by means of, for instance cabling and connecting tools.
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S29: Determine a spread of instruments and or diagnostic tools, for instance, {Hardware} or Software program parts, to resolve Communications or Telecommunications necessities.
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S30: Undertake fundamental telecommunications actions, in response to an allotted job, designated obligations, directions or buyer’s necessities.
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S31: Use info essential to determine operational points and rectify or escalate accordingly consistent with coverage
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Behaviours
B1: Works professionally, taking initiative as applicable and appearing with an moral strategy
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B2: Communicates technical and non-technical info in quite a lot 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 duty to finish the job.
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{Qualifications}
English and 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 Degree 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 normal aligns with the next skilled recognition:
Further particulars
Occupational Degree:
3
Length (months):
18
Evaluation
This apprenticeship normal shall be reviewed after three years
