Datacentre Operations Engineer

Skills

About the Role

You will join the Datacentre Operations team in Singapore, bringing your background in networking and/or systems administration together with proven low-latency trading infrastructure experience to help run the physical layer of the datacentre infrastructure. You will get hands-on with physical datacentre work including server racking, cabling, power management, and component integration, while supporting network deployment and APAC colocation projects in close collaboration with the Trading Development and Procurement teams. The role is based in the Singapore office, with occasional international travel required to datacentres predominantly based in Asia.

Requirements

• 5+ years working in datacentres or infrastructure operations
• Hands-on experience with switches/routers and low-latency network design (experience with Cisco, Mellanox, and Arista preferred)
• Proven experience building/operating low-latency trading infrastructure and APAC colocation projects
• Network routing knowledge: BGP, OSPF and multicast routing (implementation and troubleshooting)
• Comfortable working inside servers: component installs, PCIe cards, firmware updates, and hardware diagnostics (experience with Dell servers a plus)
• Hands-on experience with fibre optics, transceivers (SFP/SFP+/QSFP/DWDM) and optical networking fundamentals
• Strong change management, documentation and verification discipline
• Excellent communication skills for vendor coordination, exchange/Broker integration and remote-hands instruction
• Flexibility to work on Saturdays (with time-off in lieu) or willingness to work a shifted week
• Fluent in both Mandarin & English

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute deployment of physical infrastructure in APAC datacentres primarily, and support datacentre operations activities globally
• Supervise and execute large projects such as colocation setup and expansions and moving large amounts of equipment between sites
• Maintain datacentres including replacing failed components
• Install and maintain a well-ordered datacentre infrastructure including designing, installing, and maintaining labelled, structured cabling
• Monitor and expand power, space and cooling capacity
• Perform server integration work such as fitting PCIe cards and NICs into servers
• Carry out hardware refreshes and failed component replacements
• Coordinate with third parties regarding infrastructure support
• Produce and maintain operational runbooks, install guides, test plans and post-change verification
• Review and approve changes
• Assist with inventory and logistics tasks as needed to support deployments