Network Infrastructure Instructor

Uptime Institute is the Global Digital Infrastructure Authority. With over 4,300 awards issued in over 122 countries around the globe, and over 1,100 currently active projects in 80+ countries, Uptime has helped tens of thousands of companies optimize critical IT assets while managing costs, resources, and efficiency.

For over 30 years, the company has established industry-leading benchmarks for data center performance, resilience, sustainability, and efficiency, which provide customers assurance that their digital infrastructure can perform across a wide array of operating conditions at a level consistent with their individual business needs. Uptime's Tier Standard is the IT industry's most trusted and adopted global standard for the design, construction, and operation of data centers. Offerings include the organization's Tier Standard and Certifications, Management & Operations reviews and assessments including SCIRA-FSI financial sector risk assessment, the Sustainability Assessment, and a broad range of additional risk management, performance, availability, and related offerings.

Uptime Education training programs have been successfully completed by over 100,000 data center professionals, such as the much-valued ATD (Accredited Tier Designer) and AOS (Accredited Operations Specialist). The Uptime Education curriculum has been expanded by the acquisition of CNet Training Ltd. in 2023.

Uptime Institute is headquartered in New York, NY, with offices in London, Sao Paulo, Dubai, Riyadh, Singapore, and full-time Uptime professionals based in over thirty-four countries around the world. For more information, please visit www.uptimeinstitute.com.

Network Infrastructure Instructor

We are seeking a UK-based professional from the Digital Infrastructure Industry to be a Network Infrastructure Instructor, with an enthusiasm to share their technical knowledge and experience with the workforce of the future.

You will need to have current, verifiable industry experience and demonstrate a strong understanding of their specialist field. We are looking for innovative individuals with exceptional communication skills, a confident presence, and an engaging approach to teaching and learning.

As an instructor you will be delivering high-quality education programs that form The Global Digital Infrastructure Education Framework to a global audience.

A formal teaching qualification or previous experience in training, coaching, mentoring, or developing individuals would be advantageous, it is not essential. Full training will be provided. Most important is a genuine passion for your subject area and a desire to share your knowledge and experience with others. You will be fully supported throughout your journey and will undertake the train-the-trainer process for each course you teach.

Knowledge of:

• Network cabling infrastructure architecture
• Principles of data transmission over copper and fibre networks
• Industry regulations, standards and best practices
• Smart network technologies including wireless systems

Preferred experience in:

• Delivering inside plant (ISP) and outside plant (OSP) solutions
• Installation and termination of copper cables including UTP and FTP variants
• Installation and termination of singlemode and multimode fibre optic cables
• Testing and certification of copper and fibre optic cable systems

Additional advantageous experience:

• Project Management of network cable installation
• Design of network cable installations
• Construction and installation of network equipment cabinets
• Installation of containment systems
• Experience in the installation of smart network systems (CCTV, Security and Access, AV, WiFi etc)
• Installation of network cabling in Data centres