Datacentre Operations Engineer

The role

You will lead and carry out the deployment of physical datacentre infrastructure, mainly in APAC, and support datacentre operations globally. The role combines hands-on racking, cabling, power and server work with APAC colocation projects, working with the Trading Development and Procurement teams.

What you will do

• Lead and execute deployment of physical infrastructure in APAC datacentres, and support datacentre operations globally.
• Supervise and execute large projects such as colocation setup and expansions, and moving large amounts of equipment between sites.
• Maintain datacentres, such as replacing failed components.
• Install and maintain a well-ordered datacentre infrastructure, including labelled, structured cabling and power, space and cooling capacity monitoring and expansion.
• Perform server integration work, hardware refreshes and failed component replacements.
• Coordinate with third parties regarding infrastructure support.
• Produce and maintain operational runbooks, install guides, test plans and post-change verification; review and approve changes.
• Assist with inventory and logistics tasks to support deployments (secondary responsibility).

Required qualifications

• 5+ years working in datacentres or infrastructure operations.
• Hands-on experience with switches and routers and low-latency network design.
• Proven experience building or operating low-latency trading infrastructure and APAC colocation projects.
• Network routing knowledge: BGP, OSPF and multicast routing, including implementation and troubleshooting.
• Comfortable working inside servers: component installs, PCIe cards, firmware updates and hardware diagnostics.
• Hands-on experience with fibre optics, transceivers (SFP/SFP+/QSFP/DWDM) and optical networking fundamentals.
• Strong change management, documentation and verification discipline.
• Excellent communication skills for vendor coordination, exchange or broker integration and remote-hands instruction.
• Flexibility to work weekends or a shifted week.
• Fluent in both Mandarin and English.

Nice to have

• Experience with Cisco, Mellanox and Arista equipment.
• Experience with Dell servers.

Before you apply

• Some work must happen during weekends, so flexibility to work Saturdays or a shifted week is required.

About the company

XTX Markets is an algorithmic trading firm that uses machine learning to forecast prices across many financial instruments and trades on exchanges and alternative venues. It has offices in London, Singapore, New York, Paris, Bristol, Mumbai, Yerevan and Kajaani, and is building a large-scale data centre in Finland.