Data Center Engineer

Autonomai Recruitment; Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Autonomai Recruitment seeks an experienced data centre/infrastructure engineer to own the physical and logical infrastructure powering ultra-low-latency trading systems in Mumbai. You'll design, deploy and maintain rack layouts, structured cabling, servers and network hardware across primary data centres and colocation sites, collaborating with network, systems and trading-technology teams.

This hands-on role demands clean builds, precise documentation and fast, safe changes that directly impact

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent hands-on experience in a related field.
• Hands-on data centre experience in latency-sensitive environments (trading/HFT).
• Knowledge of data centre design: power, redundancy, rack capacity, environmental considerations.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement low-latency data centre infrastructure: rack layouts, power, cooling, cable paths and connectivity plans.
• Perform rack-and-stack of servers, switches and trading appliances; manage asset lifecycles.
• Install, test and maintain structured cabling (fibre and copper): LC/MPO/MTP, patch panels, transceivers, SFPs/QSFPs.
• Configure and support high-speed network hardware (10/25/40/100GbE+) from vendors such as Arista, Cisco, Juniper, Mellanox/NVIDIA.
• Work with Linux server hardware and remote management (iLO, iDRAC, IPMI); perform firmware/BIOS/BMC updates and hardware diagnostics.

Skills

Data centre design

Rack layouts

Structured cabling

Low-latency networking

Linux server hardware

Documentation

Cross-team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Electronics or related

Tools

Arista gear

Cisco gear

Juniper gear

Mellanox/NVIDIA PCIe/ NICs

iLO/iDRAC/IPMI

FPGA/SmartNIC exposure

Ansible

Job description

Experience: 10 plus years in data centre / infrastructure engineering (trading/HFT experience strongly preferred)

About the role

Own the physical and logical infrastructure that powers ultra-low-latency trading systems. You'll design, deploy and maintain rack layouts, structured cabling, servers and network hardware across primary data centres and colocation sites—working closely with network, systems and trading-technology teams.

This is a hands-on role where clean builds, precise documentation and fast, safe changes directly impact trading performance and resilience.

What you'll do

• Design and implement low-latency data centre infrastructure: rack layouts, power, cooling, cable paths and connectivity plans.
• Perform rack-and-stack of servers, switches, trading appliances and specialist hardware; manage asset lifecycles.
• Install, test and maintain structured cabling (fibre and copper): LC/MPO/MTP, patch panels, transceivers, SFPs/QSFPs.
• Configure and support high-speed network hardware (10/25/40/100GbE+) from vendors such as Arista, Cisco, Juniper, Mellanox/NVIDIA.
• Work with Linux server hardware and remote management (iLO, iDRAC, IPMI); perform firmware/BIOS/BMC updates and hardware diagnostics.

What we're looking for

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Electronics/Telecommunications or related field (or equivalent hands-on experience).
• Hands-on data centre experience in latency-sensitive environments (trading/HFT, exchanges, financial infrastructure).
• Strong knowledge of data centre design: power distribution, redundancy, rack capacity, environmental considerations and best practices.
• Proven experience with structured cabling: fibre (LC, MPO, MTP) and copper (Cat6/Cat6a), cable dressing and management.
• Practical experience deploying and supporting servers, switches and network appliances in production.

Nice to have

• Exposure to low-latency trading infrastructure: kernel-bypass NICs, FPGA/SmartNIC appliances, PTP/NTP timing.
• Experience with colocation projects across APAC exchanges and data centres.
• Scripting/automation for provisioning or validation (Python, Bash, Ansible).