Data Center Engineer
Flow Traders is a global technology-enabled multi-asset liquidity provider and market maker.
About Flow Traders
Flow Traders provides continuous on-exchange and off-exchange liquidity across exchange-traded products, fixed income, FX, commodities, and digital assets using proprietary trading technology. Its digital-assets business, active since 2017, includes crypto ETP market making, OTC trading, liquidity provision, and DeFi connectivity.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own and support physical infrastructure across European colocation, latency-sensitive trading, back-office data center, and microwave or wireless sites. You will manage the full infrastructure lifecycle, including deployments, refreshes, troubleshooting, capacity planning, documentation, and decommissioning. You will travel regularly across Europe and work with network, systems, trading infrastructure, carriers, colocation providers, and contractors.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on data center experience in a business-critical production environment.
- Server hardware knowledge, including rack installation, PDUs, firmware, BIOS, out-of-band management, and component-level troubleshooting.
- Structured cabling knowledge across copper, DAC, Twinax, and single-mode or multi-mode fibre, including optical testing.
- Understanding of colocation power, cooling, redundancy, and environmental monitoring.
- Basic Cisco or Arista networking and Linux or Debian troubleshooting and configuration experience.
- Experience managing colocation providers, carriers, contractors, cross-connects, and remote hands.
- Project delivery, documentation, incident management, and stakeholder communication skills.
- Willingness to travel frequently across Europe and participate in on-call support.
- Valid driving licence and unrestricted ability to travel to and work at provider sites across the EU.
Responsibilities
- Rack, cable, power, commission, troubleshoot, and decommission servers, storage, and network equipment.
- Deliver data center deployments, hardware refreshes, site expansions, and connectivity projects.
- Act as the on-site escalation point for physical infrastructure incidents.
- Monitor and forecast rack space, power, cooling, and cross-connect capacity.
- Manage cross-connects, remote hands, site access, carriers, colocation providers, and contractors.
- Maintain hardware, spares, cabling, rack elevation, and site documentation.
- Coordinate hardware shipping, RMAs, receiving, and asset disposal.
- Support microwave and wireless locations and supervise specialist contractors.
- Participate in change management, incident response, postmortems, and an on-call rota.
- Standardize infrastructure practices and automate repetitive operational tasks.
Benefits
- Annual company trip, holiday parties, family events, and sports events.
- Volunteer programs and charity support initiatives.
- Lounges, bars, gaming areas, lunches, and coffee.
- Sports, healthy food, and wellbeing programs.
Hiring Process
Apply with a CV and cover letter; complete a HackerRank assessment if shortlisted; interview with a recruiter; complete a technical assessment and final team interview.