Data Center Operations, Site Lead

The role

The DC Site Lead serves as the senior on-site leader accountable for the local team, operational readiness, safety, and reliable production. You will own site operations across people, safety, access, equipment health, maintenance, inventory, and incident response.

What you will do

• Build and lead the site team including DC Technicians, Inventory Person, and Facilities Person
• Maintain site readiness and health across power, cooling, networking, compute, inventory, and physical security
• Hold the colocation provider accountable for contracted service levels
• Own operational acceptance of new capacity
• Establish site operating procedures, emergency runbooks, maintenance calendar, and change controls
• Act as senior on-site decision-maker during incidents
• Keep hardware break/fix, spares, asset records, rack documentation, and vendor support organized
• Control access and work within the site footprint
• Enforce contractor and safety requirements

Required qualifications

• Owned operations for a data center or comparable mission-critical facility
• Direct accountability for reliability, safety, people, and service restoration
• Experience bringing a new facility or major expansion into service
• Experience hiring and developing technical teams and holding service providers accountable
• Strong working knowledge across power distribution and redundancy, cooling and liquid-cooling interfaces, networking, server hardware, monitoring, inventory, and physical security
• Experience leading serious incidents and controlling high-risk maintenance or changes in live environments
• Ability to establish practical operating discipline in ambiguous environments
• Comfortable working on site, supporting an on-call rotation, and responding to urgent events outside normal business hours

Nice to have

• Experience overseeing a colocation provider from the customer side
• Experience creating and improving operating standards adopted across multiple sites
• Experience supporting high-density AI or HPC deployments, including direct-to-chip liquid cooling, CDUs, and the boundary between building and IT cooling systems
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring, ticketing, asset and maintenance systems, and using automation
• A record of improving reliability through technician training, emergency drills, preventive maintenance follow-up, and repeatable operating standards

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.