| Skill | Required /Desired | Amount | of Experience |
| Completion of either a two-year certificate/degree from a college, university, or technical school in an IT field or equivalent work experience in IT. | Required | 0 | |
| Experience as Computer Operator in a large Data Center. | Required | 2 | Years |
| Experience with a Network Operations Center (NOC). | Required | 2 | Years |
| Experience with Production Control. | Required | 2 | Years |
| Experience with Control-M. | Required | 2 | Years |
| Experience with TPE/BPE Manager. | Required | 2 | Years |
| Experience with security in a Data Center. | Required | 2 | Years |
| Experience with Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) in a Data Center. | Required | 2 | Years |
| Experience with electrical power in a Data Center including generators and Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS). | Required | 2 | Years |
| Experience with a raised floor in a Data Center. | Required | 2 | Years |
| Experience with fire detection and fire suppression systems in a Data Center. | Required | 2 | Years |
| Experience with Change Management policies, procedures, and software. | Required | 2 | Years |
| Experience with Incident/Problem Management policies, procedures, and software. | Required | 2 | Years |
| Experience with Asset Management policies, procedures, and software. | Required | 2 | Years |
| Experience with Networks, such as LAN/WAN, MPLS, TCP/IP, and SNA. | Required | 2 | Years |
| Experience with Microsoft Office. | Required | 2 | Years |
| Experience with Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL). | Required | 2 | Years |
| Experience with automated job schedulers. | Required | 2 | Years |
| Experience with hardware/software maintenance contracts. | Required | 2 | Years |
| Experience with Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery. | Required | 2 | Years |
| Experience with State and/or Federal government. | Desired | 2 | Years |
| Experience with distributed servers running AIX, LINUX, and Windows. | Required | 2 | Years |