Datacenter Operations Manager

Futura; United States; On-site; USD 200,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Futura is seeking a Site Operations Lead to run 24/7 critical infrastructure at a flagship hyperscale campus. You will own electrical distribution, cooling, and building controls, ensuring availability against SLAs and coordinating relocation to Louisiana or Indiana, which is fully covered.

You will lead a diverse team of facility, hardware, and network operators, manage on-call rotations, safety programs, and change control, while partnering with construction and colo partners to handover to

Qualifications

• Experience leading 24/7 critical facility operations.
• Proven ability to manage electrical and mechanical infrastructure.
• Strong incident response and RCA reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead 24/7/365 operation of all critical infrastructure at site.
• Own site safety and LOTO/hazards energy controls.
• Build and lead full site team including facility, hardware, and network operators.
• Drive incident/change management and RCA analyses.
• Partner with construction and utilities during live builds and handover.

Job description

Locations: Louisiana or Indiana | Relocation required (fully covered)

The mission

We'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.

• Full ownership of a site running at a scale most operators never touch — the fleet you run will draw more power than some countries
• No inherited playbook — no prior operations org has run at this speed and scale, so the standards you set become the standard, company-wide
• Real leadership scope: you build and lead the entire site team — facility, hardware, and network operators — not just one function
• Direct, high-visibility partnership with construction, commissioning, and colo/utility partners while the site is live and still being built
• Relocation handled end-to-end — you're not solving your own logistics problem on top of a new job

Role scope

• Lead 24/7/365 operation of all critical infrastructure at your site — electrical distribution (UPS, generators, switchgear), mechanical and liquid cooling, fire/life safety, and building controls — accountable for availability against customer SLAs
• Own site safety in partnership with HSE, including hazardous energy control, electrical safety, and LOTO discipline across a mixed employee and contractor workforce
• Build and lead the full site team — facility operators alongside hardware and network operators — owning shift coverage, on-call rotations, performance, and development
• Run the hardware and network repair operation: own ticket queues, drive triage, prioritization, break-fix, and RMA workflows, holding time-to-repair against customer commitments as the fleet scales
• Run incident and change management for the site: lead severity response as the escalation point, deliver root cause analyses on 5- and 10-day clocks, and drive corrective actions that fix classes of problems, not instances
• Partner with construction, commissioning, colo providers, and utilities while the site is live and still being built, driving operational readiness and clean handover into operations

Who we're looking for

• You've run 24/7 critical facility operations where availability was contractual, and you can walk through the incidents that tested it
• You know electrical and mechanical infrastructure deeply enough to dig into the details with your technicians — you've stood in front of switchgear or a CDU and known which questions to ask
• You've run a high-volume repair or break-fix operation — server fleets or network fabrics — where queue discipline and time-to-repair were the scoreboard
• You've built and developed technical teams through hiring, coaching, and hard performance calls — your former reports would say you made them better
• You've operated procedure-based safety programs (LOTO, electrical safety, hazardous energy control) and held the line when schedule pressure pushed against them
• You've partnered with construction and commissioning teams during live builds and caught operational and safety gaps before they reached handover
• You write and present clearly enough to put an RCA or status update in front of an executive or customer without translation
• Bonus: hyperscale or Tier III/IV facility experience, trade certification or journeyman license (electrical, HVAC, controls), new-facility commissioning and operational readiness programs, CMMS/EAM systems, GPU cluster or high-performance network operations background

What's required

• Willingness to relocate to Louisiana 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

Base salary range $200,000–$265,000/year depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location, plus equity. Retirement/pension in line with local norms, health/dental/vision insurance, generous PTO.