Data Center Engineer (Fleet Operations) - AI Infrastructure

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full Benefits

Job summary

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited is seeking a Fleet Operations Engineer to own the health, performance, and availability of the hardware underpinning data-center AI workloads. You will work hands-on with production data center and HPC-style infrastructure to ensure reliability.

The role requires building tooling for fleet health, automating workflows, and responding to incidents, with on-call rotations and cross-team collaboration across platform and control-plane groups.

Qualifications

• Experience operating production data center or HPC infrastructure at scale.
• Strong systems fundamentals across macOS, Linux, and Unix.
• Programming/scripting in Python, Go, Rust, or Bash.
• Experience with telemetry, monitoring, and observability tooling for hardware fleets.
• Comfort with on-call responsibilities and on-site operational work.
• Builder mentality for a small, fast-moving team.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain production data center / HPC infrastructure running macOS, Linux, and Unix systems.
• Build and run tooling for fleet health, telemetry, and observability across the hardware fleet.
• Diagnose and resolve hardware and system-level issues, including on-site and remote troubleshooting.
• Automate fleet operations workflows using Python, Go, Rust, or Bash.
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to production incidents affecting the fleet.
• Work cross-functionally with the platform/control-plane team to coordinate capacity and lifecycle events.
• Support scaling operations as the fleet grows, including new hardware onboarding and deployment.

Skills

Data center operations

macOS/Linux/Unix

Scripting languages

Telemetry/Observability

On-call readiness

Startup mindset

Job description

Keen to join a company that champions growth and development?

Join a high-growth infrastructure company that makes Apple hardware available and performant at data center scale for AI workloads, building cloud platforms that expose high-performance hardware as elastic compute through developer-friendly interfaces.

The organization is currently on the lookout for a Fleet Operations Engineer to join the team responsible for the physical layer of the compute platform. The ideal candidate will own the health, performance, and availability of the machines underpinning every customer workload, working hands-on with production data center and HPC-style infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Operate and maintain production data center / HPC infrastructure running macOS, Linux, and Unix systems
• Build and run tooling for fleet health, telemetry, and observability across the hardware fleet
• Diagnose and resolve hardware and system-level issues, including on-site and remote troubleshooting
• Automate fleet operations workflows using Python, Go, Rust, or Bash
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to production incidents affecting the fleet
• Work cross-functionally with the platform/control-plane team to coordinate capacity and lifecycle events
• Support scaling operations as the fleet grows, including new hardware onboarding and deployment

Skills/Must Have:

• Experience operating production data center or HPC infrastructure at scale
• Strong systems fundamentals across macOS, Linux, and Unix
• Programming/scripting ability in Python, Go, Rust, or Bash
• Experience with telemetry, monitoring, and observability tooling for hardware fleets
• Comfort with on-call responsibilities and hands-on/on-site operational work
• A builder mentality suited to a small, fast-moving team scaling from the ground up

Benefits:

• Full Benefits

Salary:

• $120,000 - $180,000 Base Salary