European Datacenter Engineer - On-Site Travel & Growth

Flow Traders; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual company trips

Volunteer programs

Global rotations

Wellness programs

Great locations and lounges

Job summary

Flow Traders is seeking an experienced Datacenter Engineer to own and support the physical infrastructure across our European colocation estate, including latency-sensitive trading sites, back-office data centers and wireless locations.

You will be responsible for the full physical infrastructure lifecycle, from deployments to decommissioning, with regular travel across Europe and close collaboration with Network, Systems, carriers and providers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a production datacenter environment.
• Strong server hardware knowledge and component-level troubleshooting.
• Structured cabling across copper, fibre and DAC/Twinax.
• Understanding of colocation power, cooling, redundancy, and monitoring.
• Basic Cisco/Arista networking and Linux (Debian) familiarity.
• Experience managing providers, carriers, and remote hands.
• Excellent project delivery, documentation, and stakeholder communication.
• Willingness to travel across Europe and participate in on-call.
• Valid driving licence for EU travel.

Responsibilities

• Rack, cable, power, commission, troubleshoot, and decommission servers, storage, and network equipment.
• Deliver new datacenter deployments, hardware refreshes, site expansions, and connectivity projects.
• On-site escalation point for hardware, cabling, power, thermal, optics, and physical network incidents.
• Monitor and forecast rack space, power, cooling, and cross-connect capacity across sites.
• Manage cross-connects, remote hands, site access, carriers, colocation providers, and specialist contractors.
• Maintain accurate hardware, spares, cabling, rack elevation, and site documentation.
• Coordinate hardware shipping, RMAs, receiving, and asset disposal across European locations.
• Support microwave and wireless locations and supervise specialists contractors where required.
• Participate in change management, incident response, postmortems, and an out-of-hours on-call rota.
• Standardize infrastructure practices and automate repetitive operational tasks where possible.

Skills

Datacenter ops

Server hardware

Cabling & fibre

Colocation mgmt

Travel readiness

On-call support

Documentation

Project delivery

Linux systems

Power & cooling

Job description

Flow Traders is seeking an experienced Datacenter Engineer to own and support the physical infrastructure across our European colocation estate, including latency-sensitive trading sites, back-office data centers and wireless locations.

You will be responsible for the full physical infrastructure lifecycle, from deployments to decommissioning, with regular travel across Europe and close collaboration with Network, Systems, carriers and providers.