Data Center Engineer

Flow Traders is looking for an experienced Datacenter Engineer to own 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 full physical infrastructure lifecycle, from new deployments and hardware refreshes to troubleshooting, capacity planning, documentation, and decommissioning.

• 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 the 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.
• Coordinate hardware shipping, RMAs, receiving, and asset disposal across European locations.
• Support microwave and wireless locations and supervise specialist contractors where required.
• Participate in change management, incident response, postmortems, and an out-of-hours on-call rota.
• Standardize infrastructure practices and automate repetitive operational tasks where possible.