London Data Centre Engineer — Hybrid Role (12m Contract)

LGBT Great; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - GBP 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A global financial services firm is seeking a Data Centre Engineer based in London to manage data centre infrastructures across European locations. The ideal candidate will be responsible for installation, troubleshooting, and monitoring data centre operations. Strong recent experience in data centre environments, familiarity with key hardware, and excellent documentation skills are essential. This role offers a hybrid work model, allowing flexibility while ensuring critical support is available for all data centre needs.

Benefits

Competitive day rate

Hybrid working environment

Qualifications

• Significant recent experience in data centres dealing with hardware installations.
• Familiar with structured fibre and copper cabling.
• Ability to document records and diagrams for data centres.
• Strong written and oral communication skills in English.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, and maintain servers and networking hardware.
• Act as point of contact for incidents in the data centre.
• Monitor and manage power, cooling, and space usage.
• Ensure compliance with security protocols and vendor management.
• Document systems, processes, and configurations.

Skills

Data centre experience

Data centre cabling

Dell & HP servers knowledge

Networking hardware familiarity

Planning skills

Documentation experience

Ability to work unsupervised

Education

Previous experience in related fields

Tools

Excel

Visio

Confluence

Jira

Nlyte

ServiceNow

Device42

Job description

A global financial services firm is seeking a Data Centre Engineer based in London to manage data centre infrastructures across European locations. The ideal candidate will be responsible for installation, troubleshooting, and monitoring data centre operations. Strong recent experience in data centre environments, familiarity with key hardware, and excellent documentation skills are essential. This role offers a hybrid work model, allowing flexibility while ensuring critical support is available for all data centre needs.