Data Center IT Engineer (Hamburg) - Hosting

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited; Hamburg; On-site; EUR 54,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited seeks a Data Center IT Engineer to support a flagship AI data centre in Hamburg. You will work on GPU servers, HPC infrastructure, and production environments powering large-scale AI workloads.

The role offers genuine ownership of a critical technical environment and exposure to cutting-edge AI infrastructure, with opportunities to contribute to expansion across Europe.

Qualifications

• Experience in a data center, cloud, hosting, or large-scale infrastructure environment.
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP networking, switching, and data center infrastructure.
• Exposure to NVIDIA GPUs, InfiniBand, RoCEv2 or AI infrastructure is a plus.
• Hands-on hardware experience with enterprise servers and storage systems.
• Experience working in operational support, infrastructure engineering, or data center operations teams.
• Experience troubleshooting mission-critical production environments.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain GPU servers, storage platforms, and HPC infrastructure.
• Monitor health, availability, and performance of production environments.
• Troubleshoot Linux, hardware, networking, and infrastructure-related issues.
• Support incident response, root cause analysis, and service restoration activities.
• Coordinate hardware replacements, maintenance windows, and vendor activities.
• Support rack integrations, infrastructure upgrades, and capacity expansion projects.

Skills

Data center experience

TCP/IP networking

NVIDIA GPUs

HPC infrastructure

Rack, stack, cabling

Production environments

Vendor coordination

Job description

Looking for a role with plenty of growth opportunities?

Join a fast-growing AI cloud provider developing innovative platforms powered by cutting-edge research to transform the future of digital commerce and automation. Trusted by organisations across international markets, the company combines advanced AI capabilities with a strong commitment to data protection, digital sovereignty, and scalable innovation.

They are seeking a Data Center IT Engineer to support one of its flagship AI data centres in Hamburg. The successful candidate will work on cutting-edge infrastructure powering large-scale AI training, inference, and HPC workloads, while contributing to the organisation's continued expansion across Europe and the US.

Working alongside expert engineers, the role offers genuine ownership of a critical technical environment while supporting the infrastructure behind next-generation AI applications. This is a unique opportunity to move beyond traditional enterprise IT and contribute to the future of AI infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain GPU servers, storage platforms, and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure.
• Monitor the health, availability, and performance of production environments.
• Troubleshoot Linux, hardware, networking, and infrastructure-related issues.
• Support incident response, root cause analysis, and service restoration activities.
• Coordinate hardware replacements, maintenance windows, and vendor activities.
• Support rack integrations, infrastructure upgrades, and capacity expansion projects.

Skills / Must Have

• Experience within a data centre, cloud, hosting, colocation, HPC, or large-scale infrastructure environment.
• Experience with racking, stacking, and cabling.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise server hardware and storage systems.
• Good understanding of TCP/IP networking, switching, and data centre infrastructure.
• Experience supporting mission-critical production environments.
• Experience working within operational support, infrastructure engineering, or data centre operations teams.
• Exposure to NVIDIA GPUs, InfiniBand, RoCEv2, AI infrastructure, or HPC environments would be highly beneficial.

Salary

• Up to €90,000 depending on experience