Data Center Ops Lead — Onsite (EAT), GPUs/Liquid Cooling

DigitalOcean; Seattle (WA); Sur place; USD 131 000 - 164 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Equity compensation

Bonus potential

Competitive benefits

Résumé du poste

DigitalOcean is seeking an on-site Data Center Manager in the Wenatchee area to lead a team of technicians and engineers, ensuring uptime, performance, and safe operations of our EAT data center. You will drive deployments, manage cooling systems, and coordinate with facilities and capacity planning.

You will mentor a distributed team across the EAT region, align infrastructure with product needs, and partner with suppliers to maintain component readiness.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years of progressive experience in data center operations, including 3+ years of team leadership or site management in a high-scale environment.
• Deep technical knowledge of data center systems—compute, storage, networking, airflow/liquid/cooling.
• Experience with GPU deployments; familiarity with liquid cooling infrastructure or high-density rack solutions is a plus.
• Strong understanding of facility infrastructure, including electrical systems, power distribution, UPS, and cooling design principles.
• Hands‑on experience with data center health monitoring, rack design, structured cabling, and server manageability tools.
• Experience using work tracking tools (e.g., Jira) and applying Kanban or similar agile workflows to visualize work, identify bottlenecks, and optimize flow.

Responsabilités

• Oversee on-site operations of the EAT data center, guiding a team of technicians and engineers to ensure uptime, efficiency, and safety.
• Lead and mentor a distributed team across our EAT location; manage staffing, scheduling, performance, and career development.
• Oversee deployment, maintenance, and optimization of compute, storage, and networking infrastructure—including liquid GPU-based systems.
• Manage the physical infrastructure environment—power delivery, airflow, and liquid cooling—to support high-density compute workloads.
• Collaborate with facilities and capacity planning to optimize rack density and energy efficiency, and coordinate with vendors and OEMs for component delivery and RMAs.
• Coordinate with data center architects and cloud product owners to align infrastructure with evolving requirements.
• Share best practices and align across global sites (SFO, Toronto, NY, London, etc.) to drive cross-site consistency.
• Work with Supply Chain and Asset Management to maintain inventory accuracy and streamline logistics.
• Forecast infrastructure demand with Capacity Management to enable rapid deployment for growth.
• Use Jira and Kanban to manage day-to-day tasks and improve throughput and accountability.
• Provide KPIs and progress updates to leadership, and serve as escalation point for incidents.

Connaissances

Data center operations

Team leadership

Jira usage

Kanban

Communication skills

Global collaboration

On-call readiness

Physical stamina

Outils

Jira

Description du poste

DigitalOcean is seeking an on-site Data Center Manager in the Wenatchee area to lead a team of technicians and engineers, ensuring uptime, performance, and safe operations of our EAT data center. You will drive deployments, manage cooling systems, and coordinate with facilities and capacity planning.

You will mentor a distributed team across the EAT region, align infrastructure with product needs, and partner with suppliers to maintain component readiness.