Data Centre Critical Infrastructure Lead

Futura; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation covered

Equity included

Health benefits

Job summary

Futura is seeking a Facility Operations Lead to own on-site critical infrastructure for next‑gen hyperscale AI data centers. You’ll manage power, cooling, and change management in live build-out environments, with full authority over onsite operations.

Relocation to Louisiana, Texas, New York, or Indiana is fully supported, and you’ll work with colo partners, vendors, and internal teams to keep the site reliable and safe. On-site leadership is essential in a fast-moving, high-stakes setting.

Qualifications

• On-site data center operations experience.
• Power and cooling systems ownership.
• Change management for high-risk work.
• Vendor/colo partner management.
• Willingness to relocate to LA, TX, NY or IN.

Responsibilities

• Serve as on-site SME for critical infrastructure, handling escalations across white space and supporting facilities.
• Audit 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.

Skills

Data center ops

Power & cooling

Change management

Incident response

Vendor management

Job description

Locations: Baton Rouge, LA (ONSITE) or New Lebanon, IN (ONSITE) or Lubbock, TX or Barber Lake, TX or Buffalo, NY

Relocation required (fully covered)

Futura is partnering with one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure companies in the world, with plans to scale to 100GW of infrastructure capacity by 2030. They are looking to hire a Facility Operations Lead supporting next-generation hyperscale AI data centers.

The mission.

They'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.