Availability and capacity management
Availability and capacity management involves ensuring services are available with as little downtime or disruption as possible, and that we have sufficient resources to support emerging business needs.
Levels
- 1. Awareness
You can:
- explain availability and capacity management processes
- 2. Working
You can:
- manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and key performance indicators (KPIs)
- 3. Practitioner
You can:
- ensure the correct implementation of availability and capacity management standards and procedures
- identify capacity issues and implement the required changes
- initiate remedial action
- 4. Expert
You can:
- lead policy and strategy for service and capacity management
- lead the identification and implementation of required changes
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Role levels that expect this skill
| Role level | Role | Band | Expected level |
|---|---|---|---|
| Application operations engineer | Application operations engineer | 5 | Working |
| Senior application operations engineer | Application operations engineer | 6 | Working |
| Lead application operations engineer | Application operations engineer | 7 | Working |
| Principal application operations engineer | Application operations engineer | 8b | Practitioner |
| Configuration analyst | Change and release manager | 4 | Awareness |
| Change and release analyst | Change and release manager | 5 | Awareness |
| Change and release manager | Change and release manager | 6 | Working |
| Apprentice DevOps engineer | DevOps engineer | 4 | Awareness |
| Junior DevOps engineer | DevOps engineer | 5 | Awareness |
| DevOps engineer | DevOps engineer | 6 | Working |
| Senior DevOps engineer | DevOps engineer | 7 | Working |
| Lead DevOps engineer | DevOps engineer | 8b | Working |
| Principal DevOps engineer | DevOps engineer | 8c | Practitioner |
| Incident manager | Incident manager | 5 | Awareness |
| Major incident manager | Incident manager | 7 | Working |
| Problem analyst | Problem manager | 5 | Working |
| Problem manager | Problem manager | 6 | Working |
| Apprentice software developer | Software developer | 4 | Awareness |
| Junior software developer | Software developer | 5 | Awareness |
| Software developer | Software developer | 6 | Working |
| Senior software developer | Software developer | 7 | Working |
| Lead software developer | Software developer | 8a | Working |
| Principal software developer | Software developer | 8b | Working |