Data Center Critical Infrastructure Lead

Futura; Indiana; On-site; USD 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Futura is seeking an on-site Data Center Facilities Lead to own critical infrastructure and drive reliability across live build-outs. You will manage power and cooling systems, coordinate with vendors and internal teams, and act as the on-site first responder for incidents, ensuring seamless operation of large-scale facilities.

You will audit partner programs, lead change management for high-risk activities, and shape site design and processes through hands-on leadership in a rapidly evolving

Qualifications

• Experience operating live data center facilities.
• Strong knowledge of the power and cooling stack.
• Proven change-management for high-risk maintenance activities.
• Ability to act as first responder during incidents at 3 a.m. or other off-hours.
• Auditing, documenting, and improving site reliability and processes.

Responsibilities

• Serve as on-site SME for critical infrastructure, handling escalations and supporting facilities.
• Audit colocation partners and service providers on maintenance programs and effectiveness.
• Own the change management process for high-risk maintenance activities.
• Act as first responder on-site for incidents, driving resolution with engineering and infra SMEs.
• Partner with colo partners, vendors, and internal teams to keep the site reliable.

Skills

Data center operations

Power and cooling

Change management

Incident response

Vendor management

Auditing partners

Job description

We're building the compute infrastructure that determines who shapes the future of AI. Whoever deploys frontier compute fastest - at gigawatt scale - decides whether that future expands human freedom or narrows it. This is a confidential search on behalf of a company doing exactly that: acquiring power, designing and building data centers, and operating them, faster than anyone else in the market.

• You'll be the on-site authority, not someone waiting on one - full ownership of critical infrastructure risk and change management for the site
• Work inside live, active build-out — the site's operating posture is being defined in real time, and your judgment shapes it
• Real technical ownership over power and cooling systems at a scale few sites in the country operate at
• Direct exposure to the build-out of the most capital-intensive infrastructure in tech right now
• Relocation handled end-to-end - you're not solving your own logistics problem on top of a new job

Role scope

• Serve as on-site SME for critical infrastructure, handling escalations across white space and supporting facilities
• Understand site design limitations and risk; audit colocation partners and service providers on maintenance programs and effectiveness
• Own the change management process for high-risk maintenance activities
• Act as first responder on-site for incidents, driving resolution with support from engineering and infrastructure SMEs
• Partner with colo partners, vendors, and internal teams to keep the site reliable; feed operational learnings back into design and process

Who we're looking for

• You've operated or led critical-facilities operations in a live data center, owning the physical infrastructure that keeps a site running
• You know the critical-infrastructure stack - power and cooling - well enough to be the on-site authority
• You run change management for high-risk work and hold vendors/partners to a real standard
• You're calm and capable when something fails at 3am — you're the first responder, not the one waiting for one
• You audit, document, and improve - leaving the site's operating posture stronger than you found it
• Bonus: hyperscale/AI operations experience, Uptime Institute or NFPA familiarity, MOP/EOP experience, vendor and colo management

What's required

• Willingness to relocate to Louisiana, Texas, New York, or Indiana - the company covers moving costs, housing search, and all logistics
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving, high-trust environment with real stakes attached to your output

Competitive total compensation (salary + equity), retirement/pension in line with local norms, health/dental/vision insurance, generous PTO.