Datacenter Operations Manager

Lumicity; Texas; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumicity is seeking an experienced Data Center Operations Manager to lead day-to-day operations across a mission-critical data center environment in Texas, Georgia, or Arizona. You will drive operational excellence, safety, and reliability while guiding technical teams and coordinating with engineering, infrastructure, and external partners.

The role focuses on overseeing power, cooling, UPS, generators, PDUs, and environmental monitoring, plus capacity planning and incident management, ensuring

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience within data center operations, critical facilities, infrastructure operations, or a similar mission-critical environment.
• Experience leading or managing technical operations teams.
• Strong understanding of data center infrastructure including power distribution, UPS systems, generators, cooling systems, HVAC, and environmental monitoring.
• Experience supporting high-density server, networking, GPU, HPC, cloud, or large-scale compute infrastructure is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of data center operational procedures, incident management, change management, and preventative maintenance.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with the ability to make decisions during high-pressure incidents.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to coordinate across technical teams, vendors, and senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day operations of the data center and ensure infrastructure remains available, reliable, and operating efficiently.
• Manage and develop a team of data center technicians, engineers, and operations personnel.
• Oversee critical infrastructure including power, cooling, UPS, generators, PDUs, HVAC and environmental monitoring systems.
• Coordinate server deployment, rack installation, cabling, hardware maintenance, break/fix activities, and equipment upgrades.
• Develop and maintain SOPs, MOPs, EOPs, maintenance procedures, and operational documentation.
• Coordinate preventative and corrective maintenance with internal teams, vendors, contractors, and equipment manufacturers.
• Track capacity across power, cooling, space, network connectivity, and other critical infrastructure.
• Support the deployment and expansion of new data center capacity.
• Work closely with infrastructure, network, hardware, facilities, and engineering teams to support large-scale compute environments.

Skills

Data center operations

Team leadership

Infrastructure management

Incident response

Job description

Data Center Operations Manager (Texas / Georgia / Arizona)

We are seeking an experienced Data Center Operations Manager to lead the day-to-day operations of a mission-critical data center environment. You will be responsible for ensuring operational excellence, safety, and reliability across the facility while leading technical teams and coordinating with engineering, infrastructure, and external partners.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong experience in data center operations, critical infrastructure, facilities, networking, or large-scale compute environments who enjoys working in fast-paced environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day operations of the data center and ensure infrastructure remains available, reliable, and operating efficiently.
• Manage and develop a team of data center technicians, engineers, and operations personnel.
• Oversee critical infrastructure including power, cooling, UPS, generators, PDUs, HVAC and environmental monitoring systems.
• Coordinate server deployment, rack installation, cabling, hardware maintenance, break/fix activities, and equipment upgrades.
• Develop and maintain SOPs, MOPs, EOPs, maintenance procedures, and operational documentation.
• Coordinate preventative and corrective maintenance with internal teams, vendors, contractors, and equipment manufacturers.
• Track capacity across power, cooling, space, network connectivity, and other critical infrastructure.
• Support the deployment and expansion of new data center capacity.
• Work closely with infrastructure, network, hardware, facilities, and engineering teams to support large-scale compute environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience within data center operations, critical facilities, infrastructure operations, or a similar mission-critical environment.
• Previous experience leading or managing technical operations teams.
• Strong understanding of data center infrastructure including power distribution, UPS systems, generators, cooling systems, HVAC, and environmental monitoring.
• Experience supporting high-density server, networking, GPU, HPC, cloud, or large-scale compute infrastructure is highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of data center operational procedures, incident management, change management, and preventative maintenance.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with the ability to make decisions during high-pressure incidents.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to coordinate across technical teams, vendors, and senior stakeholders.

Preferred Experience

• Experience within hyperscale, AI infrastructure, HPC, cloud, colocation, or large-scale GPU data centers is particularly valuable.
• Additional experience with high-density compute deployments, liquid cooling, advanced thermal management, high-voltage electrical systems, network infrastructure, or rapid data center expansion would be beneficial.