Data center Engineer – Fintech
Quant Capital
In this Data Center Engineer role, you will own and optimize the physical hardware footprint at European data centers, with a focus on Frankfurt. You’ll collaborate closely with software engineers to align hardware solutions with trading strategies, ensuring scalable, robust performance. The position blends hands-on data center operations, asset management, and regional project delivery in a fast, non-bureaucratic environment. This opportunity offers significant autonomy and impact in a cutting-edge fintech setting.
Responsibilities- Install and troubleshoot hardware and infrastructure in modern data centers
- Coordinate remote technicians for server racking, patching, and installation changes
- Collaborate with vendors to resolve issues
- Plan and implement regional projects and changes
- Participate in regional on-call rotation
- Manage assets and inventory across technology hardware
- Maintain technical documentation and improve best practices
- Handle logistics and lifecycle management, including shipment handling
- Travel frequently to domestic and international data centers
- Manage data center power and cooling capacity
- 1-3 years of commercial data center experience
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple high-profile tasks
- Proficient with Linux command line tools
- CCENT or equivalent experience
- Strong understanding of modern data center principles
- Hands-on experience with computing hardware and connectivity
- Knowledge of cabling standards and terminations types
- prioritization under pressure
- cross-functional collaboration
- problem solving
- Linux command line
- data center hardware familiarity
- server racking and patching
Reference: WJ-747_30154691