Data Center Engineer

Data Center Engineer

About Millennium
Millennium is a global, diversified alternative investment firm, founded in 1989. Defined by evolution, innovation and focus, Millennium’s mission is to deliver results for our investors.

Our people are empowered with both independence and support: the autonomy to pursue ideas with conviction and the backing of a global network committed to collaboration, disciplined risk management and continuous learning. With opportunities to deepen expertise and accelerate development, talent at Millennium is equipped to adapt, evolve and build lasting impact over time. Discover how transformative growth accelerates impact.

Meet the Team
Core to the health and growth of our business, Millennium’s Information Technology organization supports a flexible, scalable technology environment and advanced proprietary systems across the firm. Within that organization, the global Network & Datacentre team manages critical datacentre and office technology infrastructure that underpins regional growth, operational resilience, and connectivity across Millennium’s platform.

What You'll Do

• Own the day-to-day physical operation of Millennium’s India datacentre facility and associated office technology rooms, including power, cooling, space, cabling, and security.
• Perform hands-on datacentre work including racking and stacking, structured copper and fibre cabling, labelling, patching, and maintaining strong cable hygiene standards.
• Manage hardware lifecycle activities across servers, storage, and network equipment, including installations, upgrades, moves, adds, changes, and decommissioning.
• Coordinate and execute hardware replacements and RMAs with local and international vendors, while helping maintain service continuity.
• Monitor infrastructure and environmental alerts, respond to incidents, perform first-line troubleshooting, and support a 24x7 operating environment through maintenance windows and extended-hours work as needed.
• Work within established ITIL and ITSM processes for incidents, requests, and changes, while maintaining accurate asset, location, and connectivity records in platforms including ServiceNow and Nlyte.
• Support network device deployment and basic configuration under the direction of Network Engineering, including physical connectivity, VLAN validation, link checks, and basic Layer 2 and Layer 3 troubleshooting.
• Contribute to tooling, automation, and integration efforts across DCIM, monitoring, logging, CMDB, and capacity platforms, while improving runbooks, SOPs, and recurring operational processes.

What You Bring
• 5+ years of experience in a datacentre or large-scale infrastructure environment, ideally within financial services or another mission-critical setting.
• Proven hands-on experience managing racks, cabling, hardware installations, and decommissioning across multi-cabinet environments.
• Experience supporting office technology rooms or comms rooms, including IDF and MDF environments, in addition to core datacentres.
• Strong working knowledge of datacentre power and cooling concepts, including PDUs, UPS, dual feeds, capacity management, and hot aisle or cold aisle design.
• Solid CCNA-level networking knowledge, including TCP/IP, VLANs, trunking, subnetting, basic routing, and access control concepts, with the ability to perform CLI-based troubleshooting on enterprise network devices.
• Experience working with remote management and operational tooling, including technologies such as IPMI, iDRAC, iLO, console servers, ServiceNow, Jira, and DCIM or CMDB platforms.
• Basic scripting capability in Python, PowerShell, or Bash to support task automation, reporting, and data handling.
• Strong documentation, communication, and coordination skills, with a high level of ownership, attention to detail, and the ability to work effectively with local facilities teams, vendors, and global stakeholders across time zones.