Data Center Site Lead

Layline Automation, Inc.; Reno (NV); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Layline Automation, Inc. is seeking an experienced Data Center Site Lead to manage day-to-day onsite operations in a high-density, mission-critical data center.

This hands-on role provides direction to Data Center Technicians and serves as the primary onsite escalation point for infrastructure issues, including DLC and CDUs. The position is full-time for a 4-month project starting on 10/15, with responsibilities spanning incident response, equipment deployment, monitoring, and coordination

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data center operations or a mission-critical environment.
• Experience leading technicians and coordinating onsite work.
• Hands-on knowledge of servers, GPUs, networking, cabling, and power distribution.
• Strong troubleshooting across hardware, networking, power, and cooling.
• Experience with ticketing, DCIM, asset/change management, and documentation.
• Ability to manage multiple teams and priorities in a fast-paced setting.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and organizational skills.
• Capable of 24x7 data center operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily onsite data center operations and provide technical direction.
• Coordinate technician priorities, ticket queues, maintenance, and shift handoffs.
• Oversee installation, rack-and-stack, cabling, deployment, troubleshooting, and decommissioning.
• Support direct-to-chip liquid cooling (DLC) environments and CDUs.
• Troubleshoot liquid-cooling alarms, leaks, and CDU issues.
• Monitor power, cooling, temperature, humidity, and hardware health.
• Lead incident response, root-cause investigation, escalation, and resolution.
• Coordinate onsite activities across engineering, facilities, vendors, logistics, and remote teams.
• Maintain documentation, asset records, change-control procedures, SOPs, and reporting.
• Ensure safety procedures and standards around electrical, mechanical, and liquid-cooled infra.

Skills

Data center operations

Technical leadership

Troubleshooting

Server and GPU systems

Networking equipment

DCIM & asset mgmt

Change management

Vendor coordination

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Data Center Site Lead to lead day-to-day onsite operations in a high-density, mission-critical data center environment. This is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for coordinating onsite activities, providing direction to Data Center Technicians, and serving as a primary point of escalation for infrastructure issues. The Site Lead will support server, networking, power, and cooling infrastructure, including direct-to-chip liquid cooling (DLC) systems and Coolant Distribution Units (CDUs).

The ideal candidate brings strong data center operations experience, excellent troubleshooting skills, and the ability to keep people, priorities, and technical work moving in a fast-paced environment. Most importantly, they take ownership of the site: keeping operations safe, organized, documented, and running reliably while making sure the onsite team has the direction and support they need.

This will be full-time, temp contracts. 4 month project starting on 10/15.

About the Role:

• Lead daily onsite data center operations and provide technical direction and support to Data Center Technicians.
• Coordinate technician priorities, work assignments, ticket queues, maintenance activities, and shift handoffs.
• Oversee installation, rack-and-stack, cabling, deployment, troubleshooting, break/fix, and decommissioning of high-density compute and networking infrastructure.
• Support direct-to-chip liquid cooling (DLC) environments, including CDUs, cooling loops, manifolds, hoses, quick disconnects, and associated monitoring systems.
• Troubleshoot and coordinate response to liquid-cooling alarms, leaks, flow or pressure issues, temperature abnormalities, and CDU-related incidents.
• Monitor infrastructure and environmental conditions, including power, cooling, temperature, humidity, and hardware health.
• Lead incident response, troubleshooting, root-cause investigation, escalation, and resolution of critical infrastructure issues.
• Coordinate onsite activities across engineering, networking, facilities, vendors, logistics, and remote operations teams.
• Serve as a primary onsite technical escalation point and communicate status, risks, and operational issues to appropriate stakeholders.
• Maintain accurate documentation, asset records, ticket updates, change-control procedures, SOPs/MOPs, and operational reporting.
• Ensure work is performed in accordance with established safety procedures and operational standards, particularly around electrical, mechanical, and liquid-cooled infrastructure.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in data center operations, infrastructure, or another mission-critical technical environment.
• Experience leading technicians, coordinating onsite technical work, or serving as a technical lead/escalation point.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of servers, GPU/high-density compute systems, networking equipment, structured cabling, rack infrastructure, and power distribution.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across hardware, network connectivity, power, cooling, and environmental infrastructure.
• Experience with ticketing systems, DCIM, asset management, change management, and operational documentation.
• Ability to coordinate multiple technical teams and manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication, leadership, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to operate effectively in a 24x7 mission-critical data center environment.

Preferred Experience

• Experience supporting high-density compute, GPU, AI/HPC, or liquid-cooled data center environments.
• Hands-on knowledge of direct-to-chip liquid cooling (DLC) systems.
• Working knowledge of Coolant Distribution Units (CDUs), cooling loops, manifolds, quick disconnects, leak detection, and flow/pressure monitoring.
• Experience responding to liquid-cooling alarms, leaks, temperature abnormalities, and other cooling-related incidents.
• Experience working closely with facilities, mechanical, electrical, networking, and engineering teams in a production data center environment.

What Success Looks Like

You are someone who can walk into a busy data center, understand what needs attention, organize the work, and keep the team moving. You are comfortable being hands-on when needed, but you can also step back and coordinate technicians, vendors, facilities, and engineering teams during complex deployments or critical incidents.