Data Center Operations Engineer (NJ Colocations) | Experienced Hire

SIG Susquehanna; Secaucus (NJ); On-site; USD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a motivated individual to join their Northeast Colocation Services team. This role offers the chance to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies in a dynamic trading environment. You'll support data center operations, ensuring rapid responses to technical challenges while collaborating with a diverse team of experts. The position emphasizes growth, innovation, and the opportunity to make a significant impact within the organization. If you're a curious problem solver eager to learn and adapt, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Competitive employee perks

Flexible schedule

Hands-on experience

Personalized development plan

Qualifications

• 1+ years in technical field support or data center operations.
• Solid knowledge of Windows and networking; basic Linux/Unix skills.
• Experience with server/network installations and deployments.

Responsibilities

• Support and manage data center technologies across multiple locations.
• Respond rapidly to technical issues in a fast-paced trading environment.
• Collaborate with systems engineers and network architects.

Skills

Technical field support

Systems administration

Data center operations

Windows knowledge

Networking knowledge

Linux/Unix skills

Scripting

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT

Technical diploma in IT

Job description

Overview

Susquehanna International Group is looking for a key player in our Northeast Colocation Services team, where innovation meets critical infrastructure. You'll support and manage data center technologies across multiple locations in Northern New Jersey, ensuring rapid response to technical issues and deployments in our fast-paced trading environment.

In this role, you will gain hands-on experience with a wide range of technologies, including:

• Networking and telecommunications
• Server hardware and software
• Tools for managing complex IT environments
• Security systems

Location & Schedule
This role is based in Secaucus, New Jersey, and involves local travel to our data centers and colocation facilities throughout the region. Since most support activities occur after trading hours (post 4:30 PM EST), a flexible schedule is essential.

How You’ll Learn
At Susquehanna, we believe in learning by doing. From day one, you’ll receive hands-on experience, guided by a supportive team. Over your first 18–24 months, your team lead will help you build a personalized development plan focused on:

• Understanding your team’s responsibilities
• Navigating our technical environment
• Building strong working relationships

What you can expect from us:

Real Impact: You’ll be designing and optimizing systems that process massive amounts of data, ensuring high performance and stability. You’ll see how your contributions towards developing and supporting leading-edge hardware and software solutions make a firm-wide impact that makes us all smarter, faster, and better.

Collaboration: Our systems engineers, network architects, technical analysts and software developers work together to create competitive edge through best-in-class technical solutions.

Growth: For many of our roles, we don’t expect you to have prior industry experience in proprietary trading or financial services to succeed at Susquehanna International Group. We’re looking for people who are naturally curious, relentless problem solvers, and have the desire to continuously innovate, learn, and grow.

Benefits: Susquehanna offers a wide array of competitive employee perks & benefits.

What we're looking for

• 1+ years in technical field support, systems administration, or data center operations
• Solid knowledge of Windows and networking; basic Linux/Unix skills a plus
• Experience with server/network installations and deployments
• Valid driver’s license for local travel
• Ability to lift/move up to 65+ pounds
• Bachelor’s degree or technical diploma in IT or a related field (preferred)
• Familiarity with data center facilities management (power, cooling) is a plus
• Experience with scripting, automation, or development is highly desirable

About Susquehanna

Susquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm founded by a group of friends who share a passion for game theory and probabilistic thinking. We have incorporated this approach into our culture, where you will find relentless problem solvers within each of our core disciplines: Trading, Technology, and Quantitative Research. From offices around the world, our employees collaborate to make optimal decisions and are driven by the desire to achieve winning results together.

What we do

We are experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on derivatives trading. Through market making and market taking, we handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day, providing liquidity and ensuring competitive prices for buyers and sellers. While our presence in the market is broad, our trading desks are highly specialized, allowing for a deep understanding of unique drivers of each asset class.

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