Designworkstalent

Data Center Operations and Maintenance Engineering Leader

Bellevue

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 19 hours ago

Cloud PlatformsPrometheusGrafanaDatadogAgentic AIIncident ResponseLeadershipCommunication

About the role

Backed by significant long-term investment, the company combines the speed, ownership, and innovation of a startup with the stability and resources of an established parent organization.
Engineering teams are intentionally lean, highly collaborative, and AI-native, leveraging automation and modern tooling to operate world-class infrastructure at scale.
Depending on experience, responsibilities may range from leading a regional operations team to defining the long-term operational strategy across multiple facilities.

Build, lead, mentor, and grow high-performing Operations & Maintenance teams.
Develop the operational strategy, organizational structure, and execution model supporting large-scale AI infrastructure.
Lead major incident management efforts and executive communications during production events.
Drive operational excellence through proactive monitoring, observability, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Partner with Engineering to ensure operational readiness for new infrastructure deployments and platform launches.
Build scalable on-call programs, escalation models, runbooks, and operational governance.
Proven success building or scaling operations teams within cloud infrastructure, hyperscale environments, AI infrastructure, or large distributed systems.
Build and lead the Operations & Maintenance organization from its earliest stages.

Experience leading Operations, Site Reliability, Infrastructure Operations, Data Center Operations, or Production Engineering organizations.
Deep expertise in production operations, incident management, service reliability, and operational excellence.
Experience leading cross-functional teams during high-severity production incidents.
Strong understanding of infrastructure operations across compute, networking, storage, and hardware environments.
Executive-level communication skills with the ability to influence engineering and business leadership.
U.S. work authorization is required. Visa sponsorship is not currently available.

Experience supporting hyperscale cloud platforms, GPU infrastructure, AI platforms, HPC environments, or large-scale data centers.
Experience with modern observability and monitoring platforms such as Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or similar technologies.
Familiarity with incident management platforms including PagerDuty, Opsgenie, or equivalent solutions.
Experience implementing operational maturity frameworks and reliability engineering best practices.
Competitive base pay for Bellevue market
These awards are allocated based on individual performance
Approximately three days per week in the office.
U.S. work authorization is required.

Competitive base pay for Bellevue market
Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, annual bonus, and stock. These awards are allocated based on individual performance

U.S. based employees have access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan and company match, employees also receive per calendar year, paid holidays.

As AI data centers come online across North America, the company is building its Operations & Maintenance leadership organization.

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