V Skill HF-D7.5-003 sector-specific 13 skills
System administration and monitoring
Keeps systems running by managing settings, updates and permissions, sets up monitoring and acts on signals before users are affected.
How hrmforce measures this
- Assessment method
- Work sample test · rho 0.33 (SD 0.09)
- hrmforce instrument
- Knowledge test (client-specific), Work sample test
- Competency (50-framework)
- Progress monitoring
- Trainability
- high
- Demand outlook 2026 to 2030
- stable
The candidate performs a representative work sample under standardised conditions.
Behavioural anchors
| Level | Behaviour at this level |
|---|---|
| N1 Guided | Performs scheduled maintenance tasks and updates according to the runbook and reports deviations in monitoring signals. works under supervision and follows instruction · routine, one variable at a time · own task |
| N3 Proficient | Independently manages a system environment, sets monitoring thresholds and removes recurring causes of disruptions. sets own approach and seeks input proactively · several variables, some ambiguity · own team or process |
| N5 Leading | Sets the organisation's administration and monitoring standards and decides on the design of the system environment. sets the standard and the policy · strategic, under high uncertainty · organisation, value chain or profession |
N2 and N4 are deliberately not anchored. Raters place them between the anchors, following the O*NET convention.
Underlying skills
These skills inherit the assessment route and the behavioural anchors of this construct.
| T | Skill | Definition | Demand outlook 2026 to 2030 |
|---|---|---|---|
| T | Microsoft 365 administration Microsoft 365 administration | Manages users, licences, mail settings and policies in the Microsoft 365 admin centre. | stable |
| T | Active Directory Active Directory | Manages users, groups, organisational units and group policy in an on premises Active Directory. | declining |
| T | Entra ID Entra ID · Azure AD | Manages identities, groups, conditional access and application registrations in Entra ID. | rising |
| T | Microsoft Intune Intune | Manages laptops and mobile devices in Intune with policy, apps, updates and remote wipe. | rising |
| T | Windows Server Windows Server | Manages Windows servers with roles, updates, file shares, permissions and event logs. | stable |
| T | Linux administration Linux administration | Manages Linux servers with packages, services, permissions, disk space and scheduled jobs from the command line. | stable |
| T | PowerShell PowerShell | Automates administration tasks with PowerShell scripts, uses modules and logs the output of scheduled jobs. | stable |
| T | Grafana Grafana | Builds Grafana dashboards from time series data and configures thresholds and alerts. | rising |
| T | Zabbix Zabbix | Monitors servers, services and network devices with Zabbix and manages triggers, agents and notifications. | stable |
| V | Configuring monitoring and alerting Monitoring setup · Alerting | Determines which signals are monitored, sets thresholds and ensures an alert reaches the right person. | rising |
| V | Performing patch management Patch management | Plans, tests and installs updates on a fixed cycle and tracks which systems are behind. | stable |
| V | Setting up log management Log management | Collects log files centrally, sets retention periods and makes events searchable for investigation. | rising |
| V | Performing capacity management Capacity management | Monitors consumption of compute, memory and storage, forecasts bottlenecks and plans expansion in advance. | stable |