Data Center Operations Engineer — Growth & Impact

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited; Biel; On-site; CHF 87,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited in Biel, Switzerland, seeks a hands-on operations specialist to run and optimize critical data center infrastructure. You will monitor power, cooling, network and security while coordinating maintenance and on-site activities with a small team.

The role emphasizes reliability, safety, and collaboration, with opportunities to shape processes, document procedures, and work with regional IT partners to support customers and audits.

Qualifications

• Completed technical training, preferably in electrical engineering.
• Experience with critical technical infrastructure, ideally in a data center, telecoms or building services environment.
• Solid knowledge in electrical engineering, HVAC or network technology.
• Hands-on approach with strong teamwork and customer focus.

Responsibilities

• Operate and monitor data centre infrastructure, power, cooling, network, security systems and access control.
• Coordinate preventive and corrective maintenance and fault resolution.
• Analyse and resolve issues with the NOC and partners.
• Deliver customer installations, environment expansions and remote hands services.
• Support infrastructure components such as racks, cabling, cold aisle containment and facility systems.
• Manage external service providers and ensure professional standards.
• Maintain technical documentation and asset records for audits and compliance.
• Identify and implement improvements to operations, processes and infrastructure.
• Participate in the on-site on-call rota.

Skills

Critical infra experience

Electrical engineering knowledge

HVAC knowledge

Network technology

Education

Completed technical training (Electrical)

Job description

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited in Biel, Switzerland, seeks a hands-on operations specialist to run and optimize critical data center infrastructure. You will monitor power, cooling, network and security while coordinating maintenance and on-site activities with a small team.

The role emphasizes reliability, safety, and collaboration, with opportunities to shape processes, document procedures, and work with regional IT partners to support customers and audits.