Data Center Facilities Operations Lead

The role

The Data Center Facilities Operations Lead will own the facilities operating model for Gimlet data centers and high-density AI infrastructure. You will ensure facility-side systems supporting compute capacity are ready, monitored, maintained, and operating within required envelopes.

What you will do

• Build the facilities operations model for current and future sites.
• Translate OEM and engineering requirements into practical site operating envelopes.
• Own monitoring and response for facility-side telemetry.
• Partner with colocation providers, vendors, and internal teams to ensure facility readiness.
• Create and maintain MOPs, SOPs, EOPs, maintenance windows, runbooks, and incident response procedures.
• Coordinate preventive maintenance, repairs, and vendor response for cooling and water infrastructure.
• Lead facility-side root cause analysis for thermal, leak, power, cooling, monitoring, and environmental events.
• Build reporting for facility health, risk, readiness, and operational trends.

Required qualifications

• Experience in data center facilities operations, critical facilities engineering, MEP operations, commissioning, or facilities maintenance
• Experience operating liquid-cooled, high-density compute infrastructure
• Familiarity with facility water systems, CDUs, heat rejection, leak detection, and water-quality controls
• Experience using BMS, DCIM, EPMS, or similar systems to monitor and respond to facility conditions
• The ability to create and execute operational procedures with strong attention to safety and reliability
• Experience coordinating across site teams, colocation providers, OEMs, and facilities vendors
• The ability to work in active data center environments and support urgent facilities escalations

Nice to have

• Experience supporting GPU, HPC, or rack-scale liquid-cooled infrastructure
• Experience with commissioning, integrated systems testing, site acceptance, or facility turnover
• Familiarity with power distribution, UPS and generator systems, chilled water, dry coolers, CRAH/CRAC systems, or rear-door heat exchangers
• Experience managing colocation obligations, service levels, maintenance windows, and vendor escalations
• A track record of improving facility reliability through monitoring, preventive maintenance, and incident analysis

About the company

Gimlet is building the first multi-silicon neocloud designed for fast, efficient AI inference. They combine large-scale compute infrastructure with an execution platform that partitions AI workloads.