Data Center Operations Lead

Skills
Cooling TowersCritical InfrastructureData Center InfrastructureData Center ManagementData Center OperationsFacilities EngineeringFacility Management
Role

What the job involves

The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in hyperscale or mission-critical infrastructure environments
  • Deep expertise in UPS systems generators chillers cooling towers AHUs and electrical distribution
  • Strong understanding of concurrent maintainability and redundancy modeling
  • Proven ability to lead during high-severity infrastructure events

Nice to have

  • Infrastructure authority
  • Operational resiliency
  • Risk-focused
  • High-pressure leadership

Day to day

  • Owns infrastructure risk across hyperscale AI data centers, ensuring power, cooling, and redundancy systems operate reliably.
  • Leads capacity planning, high-risk change management, commissioning oversight, and incident escalation for live GPU environments.
  • Partners on critical facility operations with a strong focus on operational resiliency, engineering control, and failure prevention.