Data Centre & Field Engineer

ZipRecruiter; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking an experienced Data Centre Engineer to join a friendly team based in London. This role involves working on site and in the field across Europe and globally, requiring expertise in cabling, Cisco routers, and network infrastructure. The position offers a competitive salary, allowances, and benefits including generous holiday and health insurance.

Benefits

Car allowance

On-call allowance

25 days holiday plus birthday off

Health and dental insurance

Pension scheme

Social events

Qualifications

• Several years of experience in faulting, installing, and commissioning data centre equipment.
• Valid UK work visa and ability to travel abroad required.
• Must reside within a 2 hour drive of the London office.

Responsibilities

• Spend 60% of time in data centre, remaining on field projects.
• Provide first line support for datacentre mechanical & electrical equipment.
• Monitor and repair faults with data centre and infrastructure.

Skills

Cabling

Cisco Routers

DWDM

Ethernet

Juniper Switches

Network Infrastructure

POP

Power Systems

Data Center

Rack

Job description

Job Description

Are you an experienced data centre engineer with field engineering expertise, looking for your next challenge? Our client operates network POP sites globally alongside their own data centre in central London and abroad. This role is to join a small friendly team based out of their London data center and office where you will also be on call one week in 4 to cover field and data center work. 60% of your time is typically spent in their City based data center, and the remainder doing field engineering work which may be within Europe or globally for projects. This is a Monday to Friday role with no shifts - working hours are 9 to 6pm except when you are on call out cover (1 week out of 4). Salary range £35,000 - £38,000 plus an extra £6,000 car allowance and £4,250 for on call allowance - all payable monthly as a fixed amount.

You should have several years experience with faulting, installing and commissioning the following equipment in a data centre environment to at least 2nd line support:

• Equipment - Nokia / Alcatel SDH Transmission equipment (1642 / 1660 / 1678).
• Installing and commissioning SDH networks.
• Equipment - Juniper / BTI Transmission network equipment (MX / ACX / BTI7200 / BTI 7060).
• Installing and commissioning Ethernet network.
• Equipment - Juniper / BTI / Ekinops (DWDM / CWDM).
• Installing and commissioning CWDM & DWDM networks.
• Equipment - Cisco (Switch / Router).
• Installing & commissioning DC & AC Power systems. (Rectifiers / PDU’s / ATS Switch)
• First line support for Datacentre M&E Equipment (UPS-Uninterrupted power supply / AHU-Air Handling units / Generators / Switch Gear .
• Ability to use MS Office/Visio/O365, CAD & Teams.

This is a Monday to Friday role with working hours of 09:00 to 18:00 (except when on call-out once a month). There is a free car parking space in the London office and you should have an appropriate car to accommodate kit and travel to sites. A valid visa enabling you to work in the UK and to travel abroad is also required. You must live well within a 2 hour drive of the City office to ensure you can support their SLAs when on cover.

Salary range including a car allowance and on call allowance is £45,000 - £48,000 payable monthly as a fixed amount. The company provide other benefits including 25 days holiday plus an extra day for your birthday plus all public holidays, health and dental insurance, pension scheme and lots of social events.

Typically you will be involved in monitoring, faulting, repairing:

• CSC Faults,
• M&E equipment, labelling, installation, basic configuration
• fibre & copper infrastructure cabling,
• uploading site records
• assist Logistics with hardware picking & shipping requests
• carry out physical hardware stockchecks
• maintain and update site records after equipment installation or major rack works
• provide weekly status reports to Project Manager on pre-staging, equipment & Network deployments

We are hiring for our client now and all applications will receive a reply.

If shortlisted, you will receive a full job description and an online interview with us for initial screening on behalf of our client.

Our client and Our Vacancies are inclusive employers and value in their workforces. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to , , , , , or .

Required skills

• Cabling
• Cisco Routers
• DWDM
• Ethernet
• Juniper Switches
• Network Infrastructure
• POP
• Power Systems
• Data Center
• Rack