Staff Infrastructure Engineer

CME GROUP SINGAPORE OPERATIONS PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the financial sector is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to manage and maintain its data center and network infrastructures. The role includes overseeing installation and configuration of physical systems, ensuring compliance and high availability, while collaborating with multiple teams. A strong understanding of data center hardware and networking technologies is essential, along with the flexibility to respond to emergency situations.

Qualifications

• Field services support required, including flexibility in hours.
• Experience in handling specific data center hardware and networking.
• Knowledge in high voltage work relevant to data center environments.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain regional CDN network and EBS workstations.
• Oversee installation and maintenance of physical infrastructure in data centers.
• Ensure high availability and disaster recovery systems are implemented and tested.

Skills

DataCenter hardware understanding

Structured cabling knowledge

Network troubleshooting skills

TCP/IP, VLANs, BGP, OSPF knowledge

Tools

DCIM systems (e.g., Sunbird)

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

An Infrastructure Engineer plays a critical role in designing, implementing, managing and maintaining the foundational technology systems that support CME Group’s IT operations. This role overlaps with both Data Center and Network Engineering responsibilities.

Core responsibilities:

• Manage/maintain the regional CDN network and EBS workstations. The CDN network is an “extranet” that gets extended to customer sites.
• Oversee installation, configuration and maintenance of physical infrastructure in regional data centers and office locations: servers, storage, power, cooling and cabling.
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery and backup systems are in place and tested.
• Coordinate hardware lifecycle management and capacity planning.
• Maintain data center environmental conditions and physical security.
• Configure and manage core and edge network devices (routers, switches and firewalls).
• Design and maintain LAN/WAN architectures.
• Implement and monitor network security (VPN, access control and firewalls).
• Troubleshoot connectivity and performance issues.
• Ensures infrastructure compliance with organizational policies and external regulations.
• Use monitoring tools to proactively detect and resolve issues.
• Work closely with other teams - Compute, CSG and SREs.
• Requires in/out of country field services support.
• Requires flexibility in working hours to accommodate emergency situations.

Key skills and knowledge areas:

• Have an understanding of all the DataCenter specific hardware / material. Experience Corning data center accessories.
• Knowledge of all parts to fully spec, assemble and test structured cabling between any 10g - 40G - 100g application for day to day use and specific to trading platforms. (Fiber, Copper, Coax, etc..)
• Full working knowledge of all cabinet level hardware, and industry standard cable management, documentation, and labeling standards / best practices.
• Ability to distinguish the difference between all available power options at the cabinet level, and the ability to calculate full cabinet and RPP loads.
• Understanding of the different trades required to complete low and high voltage work within a data center.
• Have the fundamental networking skills needed to troubleshoot and configure a variety of network devices. (subnetting, vlans, etc.)
• Experience troubleshooting server OS, hardware (memory, motherboards, storage) and connectivity issues.
• Servers, SAN/NAS storage, UPS systems.
• TCP/IP, VLANs, BGP, OSPF, VPN, DHCP/DNS.
• Experience in DCIM systems, e.g. Sunbird.
• Google Cloud Platform would be desirable.
• Scripting skills would be desirable.