IT Solutions Hardware Technician
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Develop, implement and maintain IT solutions such as networks, operating systems and applications.
Overview
As an IT Solutions Hardware Technician, you’ll work on servers and fixed or mobile networks.
You’ll likely be working in a multi-disciplinary team, many such teams will be modern “DevOps” style teams, which carry out the full set of stages across the whole solution lifecycle: requirements gathering, solution development, testing, implementation and ongoing support.
In more traditional organisations the team is likely to be focused more at one or other end of this broad set of activities. Such teams may well be in transition to a modern “DevOps” style team.
An IT Solutions Technician applies a professional methodology or framework to gather and analyse requirements; to design, develop, test, and implement IT solutions and to provide ongoing support both directly to end users and for the underlying IT services.
Top 5 Tasks
- Work at any stage of the hardware solution lifecycle.
- Install and configure basic hardware system components
- Demonstrate safe application of the concepts of Electro Static Discharge (ESD)
- Meet appropriate health and safety standards
- Maintain hardware solutions.
Salary
The average UK salary for this role is in the region of £24,500.
Am I Suited?
- Excellent communicator
- Independent
- Logical thinker
- Technically-minded
- Organised
Greater Manchester’s digital and creative sector will require at least 22,000 additional roles by 2035.
Qualifications
There are no set requirements for this role, but employers will usually favour if you’ve done a college course or an apprenticeship. Often you’ll need to have achieved GCSEs, especially in maths, IT and English. You may need to do an aptitude test.
An apprenticeship in this role is recognised for entry onto the BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, Register of IT Technicians confirming level 3 professional competence.
You may be able to take a job in IT or business and build up your experience and qualifications while working.
Progression
