IT & Software

Senior Data Centre Engineer

LinuxRecruit

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you lead data centre operations at a scaling FinTech, partnering with engineering to define SLAs and improve metrics. You mentor a junior team, manage vendor relations, and drive hands-on improvements across the infrastructure. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to automate processes and support rapid growth. This is a leadership-focused, technically grounded position at the intersection of operations and enterprise infrastructure.

Responsibilities
  • Lead data centre operations and ensure reliability at scale
  • Manage vendor relationships and daily communications
  • Collaborate with engineering to define SLAs and metrics
  • Coach and develop a junior team
  • Drive process improvements and pursue automation initiatives
Key requirements
  • Data centre experience and hands-on troubleshooting with Linux
  • Ability to work via remote hands and coordinate physical/remote interventions
  • Experience with vendor management and stakeholder communication
  • Leadership or mentoring experience for a junior team
  • Comfort working in a fast-scaling environment to implement changes
  • leadership
  • clear communication
  • team collaboration
  • Linux troubleshooting
  • data centre operations
  • vendor management

Reference: WJ-747_30135376

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