Senior Data Centre Engineer
LinuxRecruit
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
- 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_31163814