Data Centre Engineer (12-month contract)

Job title

Data Centre Engineer

Role type

Day Rate Contractor (12-month contract)

Department

Technical Service Group – Instinet

Location

London (Hybrid)

Company overview

Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning approximately 30 countries and regions. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment Management, and Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking). Founded in 1925, the firm is built on a tradition of disciplined entrepreneurship, serving clients with creative solutions and considered thought leadership. For further information about Nomura, visit www.nomura.com

Department Overview

As the agency-model execution services arm of the Nomura Group, Instinet Incorporated subsidiaries provide brokerage services to clients in over 65 markets around the world. Through its advanced suite of electronic trading strategies, experienced high-touch trading group, top-ranked Commission Management services, award-winning desktop trading platform, and unparalleled access to insightful analytics, content and unique liquidity, Instinet helps institutions lower overall trading costs and ultimately improve investment performance. Over the course of its 50+ year history, Instinet has introduced a range of now industry-standard trading technologies and has been an innovator at the forefront of the market's evolution. For more information, please visit www.instinet.com.

Role Overview

Instinet are looking for a data centre engineer, based in London, to be responsible for all their European data centre and colocation sites. Across all sites the candidate will be responsible for all aspects of data centre infrastructure, installation, troubleshooting, environmental monitoring and asset management.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Infrastructure Management: Install, configure, and maintain servers, networking hardware, and storage systems, including upgrades, within the data centres.
• Incident Management: Act as a point of contact for incidents or emergencies in the data center, providing swift and efficient resolutions.
• Break Fix: assist system owners in problem solving, including out-of-hours support and interacting with Remote Hands where required
• Environmental monitoring: Using existing tools to monitor and manage power, cooling, space usage in all locations, ensuring we remain within contracted limits.
• Security and Compliance: Ensure that the data centre environment adheres to industry best practices, security protocols, and compliance standards. Maintaining adequate levels of access to essential staff and contractors
• Vendor Management: Ensure the relevant vendors maintain environmental specifications and SLA’s and maintain good working relationships with each. Using an existing onboarding process to bring new vendors onboard when required.
• Documentation: Maintain accurate and detailed documentation of systems, processes, and configurations using existing tools.
• Collaboration: Work closely with other teams and stakeholders such as Unix, Networks, Storage to ensure smooth operations and address issues.

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required

Skills & experiences assessment

• Expected to have significant recent experience of working in data centres dealing with the install and deinstall of various hardware.
• Is preferred to have strong experience of data centre cabling, including structured fibre and copper.
• Is expected to be familiar with current Dell & HP servers along with Cisco & Arista network hardware.
• Familiarity with Excel, Visio, Confluence and Jira would be an advantage.
• To have strong planning skills, including collaborating and working with other teams internally and externally.
• Experienced in the accurate documentation of records for data centres such as diagrams, work requests, asset recording and patching.
• Be able to work out of hours unsupervised.

Job knowledge, qualifications and education

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