Technical Recruiter, Hosting & Data Center Industry (Remote)

FDC Servers | Remote | Independent contractor

FDC Servers needs one person to own hiring across the whole company: sales, support, DevOps, network engineering and data center remote hands. You find the candidates, screen them, run the first interviews and hand each team lead a short list worth their time.

This is not a general HR role. We want someone who has already worked in hosting, data centers, ISPs or managed services, and who can tell a real Linux admin or data center technician from a good CV.

About FDC Servers

FDC Servers (AS30058) is a global provider of dedicated servers, colocation and IP transit. We run our own network and operate in data centers across North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia-Pacific. The team is fully distributed, with people around the world, and most of them work with us as long-term independent contractors.

Who you will hire

• Sales: live chat sales agents, senior sales (remote, worldwide).
• Support: support technicians and engineers, L1 to L3, 24/7 shifts (remote, worldwide).
• DevOps and development: DevOps engineers, Python developers (remote, worldwide).
• Network: Juniper network engineers, L2 and senior (remote, worldwide).
• Remote hands: part-time and full-time data center technicians working on Dell, Supermicro and HP servers, on-site at Equinix and other facilities in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia.

What you will do

• Take hiring requests from team leads and turn them into a clear role spec and job ad.
• Post and manage ads on LinkedIn and regional job boards that fit the role and the location.
• Source directly, anywhere in the world, not only in the markets where we have hired before. For remote hands this means finding technicians who already work in or near the specific facility.
• Screen high volumes fast. A single ad can bring several hundred applicants in two days, and most will not fit.
• Run first-round interviews with basic technical screening, so team leads only meet candidates who can do the job.
• Check references, work history and identity before an offer goes out.
• Coordinate final interviews, offers, contractor agreements and the handover to the team lead.
• Keep a live pipeline for every open role and a bench of pre-screened candidates for roles we hire repeatedly.
• Report weekly on open roles, pipeline and time to hire.

What we are looking for

• Hands-on experience in hosting, data centers, ISP, cloud or managed services, either as a recruiter in the industry or as someone from sales, support or operations who moved into hiring.
• You know the vocabulary without a glossary: dedicated servers, colocation, IP transit, BGP, Linux administration, ticketing, rack and stack, cross-connects.
• A track record of hiring technical and customer-facing staff remotely across several countries and time zones.
• Experience hiring independent contractors, not only employees.
• Fluent written and spoken English. You will interview candidates from all over the world.
• Organized and self-directed. Nobody will chase you for updates.
• Good judgment about people, and the willingness to say no to a candidate who interviews well but will not deliver.

Useful extras: experience opening up hiring in countries that were new to your employer, an existing network of data center technicians in major data center markets, and familiarity with Equinix facilities.

Engagement

• Freelance / independent contractor, fully remote.
• Flexible hours. Candidates and team leads are spread across many time zones.
• Pay by agreement, based on experience.
• You work directly with the heads of each department.

How to apply

Send your CV to hr@fdcservers.net with the subject line "Technical Recruiter". In the email, answer two questions briefly:

1. Which roles have you hired in hosting, data center or network businesses, and roughly how many?
2. We need a part-time remote hands technician at a data center in a city where you have no contacts. How do you find one in two weeks?

Applications without these answers will not be reviewed.

Direct candidates only. Recruiting and staffing agencies: please do not contact us about this role.