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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.

Quoted from the UK GDaD PCF.

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

Contains public sector information from the UK Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework (https://understand-digital-data-roles-skills.service.gov.uk/), licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. © Crown copyright.

Closest ESCO skills

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Role levels that expect this skill

Role levelRoleBandExpected level
Application operations engineerApplication operations engineer5Working
Senior application operations engineerApplication operations engineer6Working
Lead application operations engineerApplication operations engineer7Working
Principal application operations engineerApplication operations engineer8bPractitioner
Configuration analystChange and release manager4Awareness
Change and release analystChange and release manager5Awareness
Change and release managerChange and release manager6Working
Apprentice DevOps engineerDevOps engineer4Awareness
Junior DevOps engineerDevOps engineer5Awareness
DevOps engineerDevOps engineer6Working
Senior DevOps engineerDevOps engineer7Working
Lead DevOps engineerDevOps engineer8bWorking
Principal DevOps engineerDevOps engineer8cPractitioner
Incident managerIncident manager5Awareness
Major incident managerIncident manager7Working
Problem analystProblem manager5Working
Problem managerProblem manager6Working
Apprentice software developerSoftware developer4Awareness
Junior software developerSoftware developer5Awareness
Software developerSoftware developer6Working
Senior software developerSoftware developer7Working
Lead software developerSoftware developer8aWorking
Principal software developerSoftware developer8bWorking