Data Center Engineer
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Data Center Engineer: Flow Traders is looking for an experienced Datacenter Engineer to own and support the physical infrastructure across our European colocation estate, including latency-sensitive trading sites, back-office datacenters, and microwave/wireless locations.
- Amsterdam
Position Overview
You will be responsible for the full physical infrastructure lifecycle, from new deployments and hardware refreshes to troubleshooting, capacity planning, documentation, and decommissioning. This is a highly hands-on role requiring regular travel across Europe and close collaboration with Network, Systems, Trading Infrastructure, carriers, and colocation providers.
Core Responsibilities
- Rack, cable, power, commission, troubleshoot, and decommission servers, storage, and network equipment.
- Deliver new datacenter deployments, hardware refreshes, site expansions, and connectivity projects.
- Act as the 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 specialist 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.
Core Skills & Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on datacenter experience in a business-critical production environment; trading or other latency-sensitive experience is preferred.
- Strong server hardware knowledge, including rack installation, PDUs, firmware/BIOS, out-of-band management, and component-level troubleshooting.
- Strong structured cabling knowledge across copper, DAC/Twinax, and SM/MM fibre, including optical testing.
- Good understanding of colocation power, cooling, redundancy, and environmental monitoring.
- Basic troubleshooting and configuration experience with Cisco/Arista networking and Linux/Debian systems.
- Experience managing colocation providers, carriers, contractors, cross-connects, and remote hands.
- Strong project delivery, documentation, incident management, and stakeholder communication skills.
- Willingness to travel frequently across Europe and participate in on-call support.
- Valid driving licence and unrestricted ability to travel to and work at provider sites across the EU.
What We Offer
No matter where you’re based, we offer great perks and benefits.
Attractive Compensation
Remuneration package comprised of a base salary and a discretionary variable component.
Continuous Learning and Development
Dedicated academy with endless personal and functional development opportunities.
Exceptional Events and Social Activities
Annual company trip, holiday parties, family and sports events. There is something for everyone!
Employee Foundation
Volunteer programs for employees and charity support initiatives through the Flow Traders Foundation.
Global Rotations Opportunities
Opportunities to work in different locations to support personal growth within the company and develop your career.
Great Global Locations
Vibrant working environments, furnished with lounges, bars, gaming areas and offering lunches and coffee.
Wellness and Healthy Culture
Active lifestyle promoted by offering sports, healthy food and wellbeing programs.
Working with Great Minds
Informal working environment, with a focus on direct and open communication, entrepreneurial spirit and a driven atmosphere.
Flow Traders' Offices: Amsterdam (headquarters), New York and Singapore
Number of employees: 300
Position: Junior Trader
Website: www.flowtraders.com
Flow Traders, named “ETF Market Marker Europe" by the Annual Global ETF Awards for the last eight consecutive years is an international leading trading house. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Amsterdam with offices in New York and Singapore, Flow Traders…
Flow Traders' Offices: Amsterdam (headquarters), New York and Singapore
Number of employees: 300
Position: Junior Trader
Website: www.flowtraders.com
Flow Traders, named “ETF Market Marker Europe" by the Annual Global ETF Awards for the last eight consecutive years is an international leading trading house. Founded in 2004 and headquartered in Amsterdam with offices in New York and Singapore, Flow Traders trades equities as well as derivatives, currencies and bonds on exchanges around the world.
Flow Traders is a privately held financial firm that keeps pace with global markets. Our business expands each day by adding new products across an ever-broadening range of markets around the globe.
Flow Traders stays ahead of the competition by focusing on technology and niche competencies in markets where every second counts. This requires access to the best information and the ability to respond instantly. To achieve this, Flow develops its own software in-house. Our team of software developers works in partnership with experienced traders to identify and execute tomorrow's strategies, making Flow a daily pioneer in professional trading.
Team effort
In order to maximize our performance and facilitate our international growth, Flow Traders heavily invest in our employees. The backbone of our success is the collection of creative doers, thinkers, and above all, believers who form our company. We at Flow believe in the team effort and value our people.
The Junior Trader Position
As a trader with Flow you manage and optimize our daily position (pricing and trading) in a wide range of financial products, including equities, bonds, derivatives and complex structured products. You formulate innovative trading strategies and – in close collaboration with our software engineers – develop trading models and tools that you will implement on the trading desk.
Training & Development
Because of the specific nature of the work-environment, we do not expect you to plunge headfirst into your new job. Instead, you will start by following in a three months intensive in-house training program that covers all the intricate details of the trading processes. As a member of an informal team, you will then gradually take on more responsibilities, start monitoring markets and only then start making split-second portfolio adjustments that are at the heart of our success. From trading to devising tactics, and from contributing to new tools to implementing actual programs: you help shape our trading strategy.
What we offer
Flow Traders offers you an exciting job and lots of opportunities within the most dynamic of environments with an excellent compensation package. We provide our employees with the best working environment, the latest technology and continuous support.