Data Center Engineer

Amsterdam4 days ago

HybridIn English

About the job

Flow Traders, a global trading firm, is seeking a Data Center Engineer to join its Amsterdam team. This role is responsible for the physical infrastructure of the company's data centers, ensuring high availability and performance. You will work on deployments, troubleshooting, and capacity planning across multiple European sites.

What you will do

Rack, cable, power, commission, troubleshoot, and decommission servers, storage, and network equipment
Deliver new datacenter deployments, hardware refreshes, site expansions, and connectivity projects
Act as on-site escalation point for hardware, cabling, power, thermal, optics, and physical network incidents
Monitor and forecast rack space, power, cooling, and cross-connect capacity across sites
Manage cross-connects, remote hands, site access, carriers, colocation providers, and specialist contractors
Maintain accurate hardware, spares, cabling, rack elevation, and site documentation

What you bring

5+ years of hands-on datacenter experience in a business-critical production environment
Strong server hardware knowledge including rack installation, PDUs, firmware/BIOS, out-of-band management, and component-level troubleshooting
Strong structured cabling knowledge across copper, DAC/Twinax, and SM/MM fibre, including optical testing
Good understanding of colocation power, cooling, redundancy, and environmental monitoring
Basic troubleshooting and configuration experience with Cisco/Arista networking and Linux/Debian systems
Willingness to travel frequently across Europe and participate in on-call support

Nice to have

Trading or other latency-sensitive experience

About Flow Traders

Flow Traders is a global trading firm specializing in exchange-traded products.

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