Datacenter Engineer

⏰ 18-02-2026      📍Amsterdam, NL

At NovoServe we are looking for an enthusiastic Datacenter Engineer. Do you enjoy working with server and network hardware and do you get energy from detecting and solving malfunctions? Then you might be the person we are looking for!

About NovoServe

NovoServe provides hosted dedicated servers to its customers from multiple datacenters in the Netherlands. We are a fast-growing company with an informal atmosphere and international ambitions. We strongly focus on automation, in order to scale quickly and optimally serve our customers. To enable our rapid growth, we develop our own systems for IaaS services. For example, we build our own systems to manage thousands of servers and offer our own API, enabling our customers to use our services more easily and faster.

Core of the role

As a Datacenter Engineer you will be responsible for building, installing, and delivering our servers. You will also ensure that everything runs smoothly by managing our racks, connecting cabling, and laying fiber optic cables.

In addition, you will be involved in:

  • interpreting notifications in the ticket system and taking action if necessary;
  • receiving and handling notifications from customers and colleagues;
  • inventory management;
  • documenting, registering, and keeping documentation up to date;
  • making suggestions for improving work processes.

What do you bring?

You are a real go-getter who likes to get hands-on. You have experience in assembling and building servers yourself. Moreover, you are willing to continuously develop yourself. You also take responsibility for the quality of your work. Your strong communication skills are useful when coordinating with colleagues, but also because you are the first point of contact for our customers.

You recognise yourself in this

You have at least MBO-level working and thinking skills, preferably complemented with a few years of relevant work experience in a similar role. You have knowledge of servers, operating systems, and (network) cabling, and hands-on experience with assembling servers. In addition, you don’t mind being on standby and on-call duties. Furthermore, you are proactive and communicative, fluent in both Dutch and English.

Furthermore, you also have:

  • Basic knowledge of Linux.
  • A driver’s license (B).
  • Knowledge of operating systems (experience is a plus).

You are available for 40 hours per week and live in the Amsterdam region and surroundings.

This is what we offer:

  • Experienced colleagues who help you continue to develop yourself.
  • 25 vacation days per year.
  • Paid standby duty.
  • Weekly organized lunch.
  • A quarterly social event.
  • Working in a small organization where you can really make a difference.

Excited and want to know more?

Would you like clarification about the tasks, a better understanding of the role, or more information about our company NovoServe? Then call Colinda den Ouden at 06-33052403.

 

Acquisitions

Are you a recruiter? We appreciate your interest, but we are sourcing all our candidates directly.

Have any questions?

If you are not sure whether this is the right position for you or would like to explore more opportunities, please contact our HR advisor, Colinda, at 06-33052403 or jobs@novoserve.com.

More about our datacenter engineer role

We welcome anyone who has affinity with IT and passion for the datacenter engineer job. Please feel free to speak with our HR. Below you can find more insights into the Datacenter Engineer job at NovoServe.

What exactly is a datacenter engineer?

A Datacenter Engineer is the guardian of the physical internet. While software developers build the applications, the Datacenter Engineer ensures the physical infrastructure—the high-performance CPUs, the NVMe storage, and the fiber optic networking—is perfectly installed, cooled, and connected. At NovoServe, this means managing the lifecycle of bare metal hardware. You are responsible for ensuring that when a customer hits "deploy" via our API, the physical machine in our Amsterdam rack is ready to handle the workload.

Do I need to be a seasoned datacenter engineer to apply?

Actually, no. While we value experience, we value passion and a "builder" mindset even more. If you are an IT hobbyist—someone who spends their weekends building custom PCs, experimenting with HomeLab setups, or tinkering with Linux distributions—you already have the DNA of a NovoServe engineer.

We don’t expect you to know every nuance of a Tier III facility on day one. We have a dedicated, senior datacenter team in Amsterdam ready to mentor you. If you have the basic "hands-on" skills and a hunger to learn how global infrastructure operates at scale, we will provide the training and environment for you to become an expert.

No two days are identical in a data center. One morning you might be performing a "rack and stack" operation, carefully installing a new fleet of GPU-accelerated servers and ensuring the cable management is neat and efficient for optimal airflow. In the afternoon, you might shift to troubleshooting a hardware alert from our monitoring system, perhaps swapping out a faulty DIMM or testing a network transceiver. You work at the intersection of physical craftsmanship and high-level IT troubleshooting.

Amsterdam is one of the world's primary "connectivity hubs" (part of the FLAP-D markets). Working in our Amsterdam facilities puts you at the heart of global data traffic. Because our engineers participate in an on-call rotation, we require our team members to live within a reasonable commuting distance of the data center to respond quickly to critical infrastructure needs.