6 days ago

A DATA CENTRE ENGINEER IS URGENTLY NEEDED IN FRANKFURT, RELOCATION/VISA ASSISTANCE IS OFFERED

You may anticipate the following duties as our Data Center Engineer: you will be in charge of maintaining our on-site data center and co-locations. We are experienced in helping foreign nationals relocate, providing attractive relocation packages, and, if needed, sponsoring visas.

A DATA CENTRE ENGINEER IS URGENTLY NEEDED IN FRANKFURT, RELOCATION/VISA ASSISTANCE IS OFFERED | visajobshq.com

WHO YOU ARE:

  • Installing and cabling switches, servers, and appliances in our on-site data center

  • Taking pride in maintaining a consistent and clean cable management philosophy

  • Getting equipment to and from remote colocations including packing/shipping

  • Maintaining our data center documentation with potential opportunity to take ownership over this

  • Facilitating the installation of servers and network equipment with smart hands across remote co-locations

  • Managing power and space including monitoring and capacity planning

  • Planning moves and new build-outs

  • Contributing to the build and maintenance of our office infrastructure environment, such as our trading floor

  • Managing our equipment inventory

  • Replacing hard drives/memory/transceivers and other hardware related tasks as required by our server and network teams

 

WHAT YOU'LL NEED:

  • Creative problem solving skills: you will be expected to come up with solutions to problems at hand, opposed to waiting for orders  

  • Experience working in a modern, large-scale data center

  • Strong documentation and logistics mentality

  • Attention to detail, cleanliness and an appreciation for simplicity

  • Ability to identify basic parts of network equipment – SFPs, line cards, chassis

  • Ability to identify basic parts of servers – memory, network card, hard drives

  • Knowledge of structured cabling systems using cat 5, cat 6, multi-mode and single-mode fiber

  • Familiarity with both power and communications cabling standards

  • Experience configuring and using cable testers for both fiber and copper to troubleshoot cabling issues

  • An understanding of change control processes

 

WHAT YOU'LL GET:

  • The chance to start your career working alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries.

Alongside this you will get great secondary benefits such as 25 paid vacation days, fully paid first-class commuting expenses, training opportunities, discounts on health insurance, breakfast and lunch facilities, sports and leisure activities, Friday afternoon drinks and even weekly in-house chair massages. Being highly international, we are accustomed to guiding expats through their relocation, offering competitive relocation packages and providing visa sponsorship where necessary.