EMEA Hardware Deployment Lead – AI Infra, Flexible Work

Hamilton Barnes; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 72,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus scheme

Shared Scheme

Pension

Flexible working arrangements

Fast growth opportunities

Job summary

Hamilton Barnes is seeking a Hardware Deployment Engineering Team Lead to guide the EMEA deployment group while remaining hands-on with hardware bring-up, testing and troubleshooting across GPU, compute and storage infrastructure.

The role includes ownership of people, delivery and resource planning, shaping scalable deployment processes, automation, and data centre launches across the region, with flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with server hardware, data centre infrastructure or large-scale systems deployment.
• Previous experience leading engineers through formal people management or senior technical/team leadership.
• Strong resource and capacity planning experience across multiple concurrent infrastructure projects.
• Hands-on troubleshooting experience across server hardware, Linux, firmware or large-scale infrastructure environments.
• Strong problem-solving and ownership skills, with experience driving complex technical issues through to resolution.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the EMEA Deployment Engineering team, owning performance, hiring, technical development and day-to-day priorities
• Own capacity and resource planning across multiple data centre deployments, ensuring the right engineering expertise is available at each stage
• Lead hardware bring-up, testing, validation and acceptance across GPU, compute and storage infrastructure
• Drive complex hardware, firmware and Linux troubleshooting, working with R&D, Operations, ODMs and vendors through to root cause
• Build repeatable deployment processes, testing standards and automation while feeding deployment learnings back into hardware, tooling and operational handover

Skills

Server hardware

DC infrastructure

Leadership

Capacity planning

Linux troubleshooting

Firmware debugging

Problem-solving

Ownership

Job description

Hamilton Barnes is seeking a Hardware Deployment Engineering Team Lead to guide the EMEA deployment group while remaining hands-on with hardware bring-up, testing and troubleshooting across GPU, compute and storage infrastructure.

The role includes ownership of people, delivery and resource planning, shaping scalable deployment processes, automation, and data centre launches across the region, with flexible working arrangements.