Datacentre Operations Engineer – Colo, Trading Environment

Overview

In this role you will uphold the physical and networked backbone of a high-performance quant trading platform. You join a dedicated infrastructure team to manage servers, switches, cabling, and colocation-site deployments, ensuring low-latency, reliable operations. You will collaborate with internal teams and external vendors to deploy hardware, configure Linux, and diagnose network and rack-level issues. This opportunity offers hands-on problem solving in a demanding, tech-forward environment with visibility across critical trading workflows.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and maintain servers, switches and structured cabling
• Build and upgrade rack infrastructure, incl. power and cooling planning
• Install and configure Linux operating systems for production networks
• Troubleshoot dark fibre connectivity and hardware issues
• Coordinate third-party access, RMAs, deliveries, and cross-connects
• Maintain documentation, inventory and data centre standards
• Support physical layer troubleshooting and hardware escalations
• Travel to local and remote colocation sites as required

Key requirements

• Proven data centre experience in colocation, trading environment
• Practical Linux system administration and OS installation skills
• Networking skills strongly preferred (logging into network devices)
• Strong knowledge of structured cabling (copper and fibre) and rack design
• Understanding of routing and switching (BGP, L2/L3)
• Experience with hardware components including NICs, SSDs, FPGAs, GPUs, and transceivers
• Ability to work independently under pressure and manage vendors and logistics
• Willingness to cover weekends and holidays on a rota

• Collaboration with internal teams and external vendors
• Ability to work under pressure
• Vendor and logistics coordination
• Linux system administration
• OS installation
• Networking basics; logging into network devices

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