Datacentre Operations Engineer – Colo, Trading Environment
Quant Capital
Overview
In this role you will uphold the physical and networked backbone of a high-performance quant trading platform. You join a dedicated infrastructure team to manage servers, switches, cabling, and colocation-site deployments, ensuring low-latency, reliable operations. You will collaborate with internal teams and external vendors to deploy hardware, configure Linux, and diagnose network and rack-level issues. This opportunity offers hands-on problem solving in a demanding, tech-forward environment with visibility across critical trading workflows.
Responsibilities- Deploy, configure, and maintain servers, switches and structured cabling
- Build and upgrade rack infrastructure, incl. power and cooling planning
- Install and configure Linux operating systems for production networks
- Troubleshoot dark fibre connectivity and hardware issues
- Coordinate third-party access, RMAs, deliveries, and cross-connects
- Maintain documentation, inventory and data centre standards
- Support physical layer troubleshooting and hardware escalations
- Travel to local and remote colocation sites as required
- Proven data centre experience in colocation, trading environment
- Practical Linux system administration and OS installation skills
- Networking skills strongly preferred (logging into network devices)
- Strong knowledge of structured cabling (copper and fibre) and rack design
- Understanding of routing and switching (BGP, L2/L3)
- Experience with hardware components including NICs, SSDs, FPGAs, GPUs, and transceivers
- Ability to work independently under pressure and manage vendors and logistics
- Willingness to cover weekends and holidays on a rota
- Collaboration with internal teams and external vendors
- Ability to work under pressure
- Vendor and logistics coordination
- Linux system administration
- OS installation
- Networking basics; logging into network devices
Reference: WJ-747_30139503