Datacenter Engineer at Flow Traders

Software Developers

Datacenter Engineer

Flow Traders

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

On-Site

Expert

posted 2 days ago

Vacancy Summary

Flow Traders is seeking a skilled Datacenter Engineer to manage and support our physical infrastructure across Europe. This role involves hands-on work with critical systems and requires frequent travel, ensuring optimal performance in latency-sensitive environments.

Required skills

Installation

Optics

troubleshooting

Incident Response

Firmware

Documentation

Decommissioning

Planning

Hardware

networking

Power Systems

Infrastructure

Network Equipment

Monitoring

Incident Management

Structured Cabling

configuration

Production Environment

Driving

Communication Skills

Support

Contact

Access

Estate

optical testing

Flow

Servers

Arista

PDUs

Cooling systems

Trading

Project Delivery

Staffing

Wireless

DAC

Linux

Connectivity

Cisco

Debian Linux

Flow Traders is looking for an experienced Datacenter Engineer to take ownership of and support the physical infrastructure across our European colocation estate, including latency-sensitive trading sites, back-office datacenters, and microwave/wireless locations. You will be responsible for the complete physical infrastructure lifecycle, from new deployments and hardware refreshes to troubleshooting, capacity planning, documentation, and decommissioning. This is a highly hands-on role requiring regular travel across Europe and close collaboration with Network, Systems, Trading Infrastructure, carriers, and colocation providers.

Verantwoordelijkheden

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Rack, cable, power, commission, troubleshoot, and decommission servers, storage, and network equipment.

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Deliver new datacenter deployments, hardware refreshes, site expansions, and connectivity projects.

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Act as the on-site escalation point for hardware, cabling, power, thermal, optics, and physical network incidents.

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Monitor and forecast rack space, power, cooling, and cross-connect capacity across sites.

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Manage cross-connects, remote hands, site access, carriers, colocation providers, and specialist contractors.

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Maintain accurate hardware, spares, cabling, rack elevation, and site documentation.

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Coordinate hardware shipping, RMAs, receiving, and asset disposal across European locations.

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Support microwave and wireless locations and supervise specialist contractors where required.

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Participate in change management, incident response, postmortems, and an out-of-hours on-call rota.

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Standardize infrastructure practices and automate repetitive operational tasks where possible.

Vereisten

Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via email, the Internet, or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.

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5+ years of hands-on datacenter experience in a business-critical production environment; trading or other latency-sensitive experience is preferred.

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Strong server hardware knowledge, including rack installation, PDUs, firmware/BIOS, out-of-band management, and component-level troubleshooting.

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Strong structured cabling knowledge across copper, DAC/Twinax, and SM/MM fibre, including optical testing.

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Good understanding of colocation power, cooling, redundancy, and environmental monitoring.

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Basic troubleshooting and configuration experience with Cisco/Arista networking and Linux/Debian systems.

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Experience managing colocation providers, carriers, contractors, cross-connects, and remote hands.

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Strong project delivery, documentation, incident management, and stakeholder communication skills.

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Willingness to travel frequently across Europe and participate in on-call support.

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Valid driving licence and unrestricted ability to travel to and work at provider sites across the EU.

About Flow Traders

Flow Traders

Amsterdam, NL

Founded in 2004, Flow Traders is a leading trading firm operating globally. Specialized in Exchange Traded Products (ETPs), Flow Traders trades a broad range of asset classes, including digital assets and fixed income both on- and off-exchange. Our headquarters are in Amsterdam and we have offices in 10 locations worldwide, with more than 600 employees. Our non-hierarchical approach stimulates innovation and development. We value creative minds and out-of-the-box thinkers and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. Flow Traders fosters a strong team-oriented culture which rewards people for their contributions to the company as a whole rather than only in their direct area of responsibility.

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