Watches production platforms, handles alerts and executes operating procedures.
Entry
Junior
Coding
Low
Key skills
Career overview
The IT Operations Technician works in the engine room. Screens full of dashboards, batch chains that must finish before the business day, alerts that must be qualified in minutes. The role teaches discipline, procedures and a production mindset, which are exactly the reflexes that DevOps and SRE teams look for later on.
Main responsibilities
- Monitor platform health, alerts and dashboards
- Monitor scheduled jobs and batch chains
- Write and improve operational runbooks
- Escalate complex cases to the relevant technical team
- Take part in on-call rotations
- Document every action in the ticketing tool
- Prepare and execute change requests in production
- Keep technical documentation up to date
- Respect SLA response and resolution targets
- Diagnose hardware, software and connectivity failures
Technical skills
Technologies
Education level
Education requirements vary depending on the company, country and experience. Professional experience, certifications and technical skills can sometimes compensate for formal education.
High School / Bac
Common entry point
Bac+2 (2-year degree)
Common entry point
Bac+3 (Bachelor)
Less common
Bac+5 (Master / Engineering)
Less common
Experience & coding level
Experience level
Coding level
Useful certifications
Certifications are never mandatory. They are one way among others to prove a skill.
- ITIL 4 Foundation
- LPIC-1
- CompTIA Server+
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Overlap: 31% · Difficulty: Easy
Skills to learn: Alert qualification, Ticketing, ITIL
View roadmapOverlap: 47% · Difficulty: Medium
Skills to learn: Workflow design, Calendars & dependencies, SQL
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Soft skills
- Rigour and attention to detail
- Staying calm under pressure
- Prioritisation
- Teamwork
- Autonomy
- Documentation writing
Common previous careers
Roles that frequently lead into this career.
Overlap: 40% · Difficulty: Easy
Skills to learn: Monitoring tools, Job scheduling, Linux commands
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