Data Center Operations Engineer
Kraken Digital Asset Exchange
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $110,000 - $176,000 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Airflow
About the role
- Performs expert preventive and corrective on-site maintenance on critical exchange infrastructure
- Installs and configures complex server and networking systems
- Provides comprehensive on-site facility support, including installation, decommissioning, and break/fix work
- Manages contractors, subcontractors, and vendors to ensure compliance with site procedures
- Responsible for maintaining site-level asset accuracy, documentation, and ITAM, NetBox (IPAM, DCIM) updates. Ensuring all documentation and rack layouts remain accurate, audit-ready, and traceable
- Supports financial and capacity planning through cost projections and renewal tracking
- Leads or assists in capacity planning to maintain adequate spare capacity and plan timely backfills
- Assume on-call responsibilities and duties per the schedule & travel as needed to support physical data centre and office locations
- Monitors, maintains, and troubleshoots physical infrastructure, including on-call and travel duties as required
Requirements
- 3 + years experience of data centre operations in a highly security focused environment
- 3 + years experience working in a large-scale data centre environment
- Experience with power, cooling and airflow management of physical devices.
- Basic knowledge of IP addressing and subnets/gateway configuration.
- Demonstrated accountability for site or system ownership in a large-scale environment.
- Strong documentation discipline and ability to maintain a single source of truth for assets, capacity, and dependencies.
- Understanding of financial planning or forecasting in an operational context.
- Ability to collaborate across teams and regions with transparency and professionalism.
- Ability to perform under pressure with high attention to detail.
- Physical labour skill, able to lift more than 25 kgs
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- Offers Bonus
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
preventive maintenancecorrective maintenanceserver installationnetworking systems configurationasset managementdocumentation managementcapacity planningtroubleshootingIP addressingsubnet configuration
Soft skills
accountabilitydocumentation disciplinecollaborationtransparencyprofessionalismability to perform under pressureattention to detail