Data Center Technician

P2P; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

Dental Insurance

Group Pension Scheme

Paid Parental Leave

Parking and Commuter Benefits

Discretionary bonus eligibility

HSA/FSA options

Employer match retirement plan

Wellness Programs

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

Jump Trading Group is seeking an experienced Data Center Infrastructure Engineer to remotely manage critical data center environments, including power, cooling, hardware, and cabling. You will coordinate with vendors, oversee MSPs, and implement standards across global facilities.

The role requires onsite experience, strong networking fundamentals, and Linux CLI skills. Occasional travel to Jump offices and data centers is expected as part of a fast-paced, collaborative team.

Qualifications

• Two years onsite data center experience.
• Understanding of data center infrastructure (electrical/power, cooling, mechanicals, safety).
• Knowledge of cabling standards and installation best practices.
• Hardware repair experience with data center hardware.
• Ability to understand basic network designs and topologies.
• Experience with Linux command line and basic scripting.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, time management and organization.
• Ability to work in a global, fast paced environment.
• Extremely high personal standards for work quality.
• Reliable and predictable availability.

Responsibilities

• Remotely manage data center infrastructure (power, cooling, hardware, cabling, tools) to provide maximum availability.
• Perform requirements gathering and planning for new hardware installs.
• Oversee Data Center Managed Services providers and onsite technicians.
• Develop and maintain data center standards and documentation.
• Interface with colocation providers and hardware vendors.
• Coordinate data center work with other teams.
• Perform capacity planning within the data center.
• Evaluate industry trends and implement improvements.
• Data center and hardware troubleshooting and break-fix.
• Assist with shipping and receiving of equipment.
• Maintain inventory of serialized assets and consumables.
• Occasional travel to data centers and Jump offices.

Skills

Data Center experience

Data center infrastructure

Cabling standards

Hardware repair

Linux CLI

Network concepts

Communication skills

Team player

Reliability

Job description

Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant innovation requires fearlessness, creativity, intellectual honesty, and a relentless competitive streak. We believe in winning together and unlocking unique individual talent by incenting collaboration and mutual respect. At Jump, research outcomes drive more than superior risk adjusted returns. We design, develop, and deploy technologies that change our world, fund start-ups across industries, and partner with leading global research organizations and universities to solve problems.

Production Infrastructure is a global team of technologists who architect, build, and maintain our world-class infrastructure. From designing and deploying our global low-latency network and datacenter architecture, to optimizing application deployment and monitoring infrastructure, Production Infrastructure engineers span the whole stack, leveraging research and automation to consistently adapt and innovate our infrastructure to scale and drive our trading and evolving business.

Jump's Production Infrastructure team is responsible for the datacenters, networks and supporting systems that power both Jump's global low latency environment and high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. In this role you’ll have an opportunity to work with the latest in server, network and storage technology such as high-density cabinets and liquid cooling. You’ll also exist in a capacity that will allow project ownership from start to finish.

What You'll Do:

Remotely manage data center infrastructure (power, cooling, hardware, cabling, tools/supplies, etc.) to provide maximum availability of services.

Perform requirements gathering and planning for new hardware installs (i.e. physical location, power and cooling requirements, cabling, etc.).

Oversee Datacenter Managed Services providers, including management of onsite technicians.

Develop and maintain data center standards and other documentation.

Interface directly with colocation providers and hardware vendors (questions, issues or new requests).

Work with other teams to coordinate data center work (installation of equipment, cable patching, auditing, etc.).

Perform capacity planning activities within the data center (space, cooling, power, cabling plant).

Evaluate industry trends and recommend changes and improvements within the Data Center and hardware space.

Data center and hardware troubleshooting and break-fix.

Assist with shipping and receiving of equipment.

Maintain inventory (serialized assets and consumables).

Occasional travel to data centers/Jump offices.

Other duties as assigned or needed.

Skills You’ll Need:

At least two years onsite Data Center experience.

Understanding of data center infrastructure (electrical/power, cooling, mechanicals, safety, etc.).

Knowledge of cabling standards/media types and installation best practices

Hardware repair experience (data center infra, servers, network devices, storage devices, etc.).

Ability to understand basic network designs and topologies.

Experience working at the command line of Linux systems doing basic system troubleshooting and running scripts.

Excellent written/verbal communication, time management and organizational skills.

Ability to work well as part of global team in a fast-paced environment.

Extremely high personal standards for work quality.

Reliable and predictable availability

Benefits include:

• Private Medical, Vision and Dental Insurance
• Travel Medical Insurance
• Group Pension Scheme
• Group Life Assurance and Income Protection Schemes
• Paid Parental Leave
• Parking and Commuter Benefits

Benefits

• Discretionary bonus eligibility
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care options
• Employer Paid Group Term Life and AD&D Insurance
• Voluntary Life & AD&D insurance
• Paid vacation plus paid holidays
• Retirement plan with employer match
• Paid parental leave
• Wellness Programs

Annual Base Salary Range

$120,000—$180,000 USD