Engineering Manager (Deployment)

Crusoe Energy Systems; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellbeing

Time away

401(k) match

Mental wellness

Job summary

Crusoe Energy Systems is seeking an Engineering Manager, Deployment to lead a global deployment team delivering HPC and GPU AI infrastructure. You will manage people, processes, and delivery across multiple sites, ensuring tight alignment with Network Deployment leadership and strategic goals.

You will champion automation, drive standardization, and collaborate with Data Center Ops, Supply Chain, and Site Reliability teams to deliver scalable, efficient turn‑ups at hyperscale pace.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a technical field.
• 6+ years in network engineering or data center deployment.
• 2+ years in people management for large-scale infra teams.
• Proven leadership across multiple sites/time zones.

Responsibilities

• Lead deployment teams across sites and time zones.
• Drive automation adoption: ZTP, Ansible, CI/CD for turn-up.
• Ensure on-time, zero-defect delivery of site builds.
• Manage vendor and partner performance with SLAs.
• Provide risk reporting to Ops and Architecture leadership.
• Coach engineers to grow technical and leadership skills.
• Contribute to deployment standards and planning discussions.
• Capture field feedback to evolve standards.

Skills

People leadership

Automation fluency

Technical fluency

Network engineering

Data center deployment

Vendor management

Python/Ansible

CI/CD

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

Arista/Juniper/NVIDIA gear

BGP/EVPN-VXLAN

Job description

• We’re looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services


• If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe


• Crusoe Cloud is seeking an Engineering Manager, Deployment to help lead the organization responsible for physically and logically bringing our global network online


• As we rapidly scale our footprint of high-performance compute (HPC) and GPU-based AI infrastructure, you will manage a deployment team’s people, process, and delivery across a portion of our growing portfolio of concurrent global builds, working closely with Network Deployment technical leadership to execute against strategy


• You’re accountable for your team’s output: every site, every quarter, at hyperscale pace


• You build and grow your team, help drive adoption of deployment standards in day-to-day practice, and contribute to planning conversations with Data Center Ops, Supply Chain, and Site Reliability leadership


• Build and Lead Your Team: Manage your team’s structure and growth. Hire and develop Network Production Engineers across multiple sites and time zones


• Drive Deployment Automation Adoption: Help execute the automation strategy across the deployment lifecycle, including ZTP-based provisioning, Ansible-driven configuration, and CI/CD pipelines for network turn-up. Hold your engineers accountable for replacing manual, repeatable steps with automated workflows as the site pipeline scales


• Deliver Your Portion of the Portfolio: Be accountable for on-time, zero-defect delivery across your assigned site build-outs. Manage the operating cadence and staffing for your team within the broader program


• Execute Against Strategy: Work with Network Deployment technical leadership to turn deployment strategy and standards into execution plans for your team, and surface field realities that should inform how those standards evolve


• Report on Program Status: Provide program reporting and risk escalation on your team’s work to Data Center Ops, Supply Chain, and Site Reliability leadership as needed


• Manage Vendor and Partner Performance: Hold structured cabling vendors, remote hands, and data center providers to defined SLAs and quality bars for your sites. Escalate systemic partner issues


• Champion Validation Rigor: Ensure burn-in and site acceptance testing (SAT) standards are consistently met across your sites. Partner with Operations leadership on handoff quality and root-cause resolution


• Support Capacity Planning: Provide input to Supply Chain and Infrastructure leadership on hardware lifecycle, lead-time risk, and turn-up cadence for your team’s site pipeline


• Contribute to Continuous Improvement: Participate in cross-site retrospectives and post-incident reviews. Surface gaps in tooling, staffing, or process for your team


• Develop Team Members: Coach engineers into stronger technical and people contributors


• Apply Frontend Network Reference Architecture: Build sites against established reference architectures for the frontend GPU/compute fabric (leaf-spine design, RDMA/RoCE, optics, scale-out topology), and provide field feedback to Architecture as GPU generations and interconnect standards evolve


• Apply Backend Network Reference Architecture: Build sites against established reference architectures for backend networks (storage fabric, management, out-of-band connectivity), ensuring your team’s builds integrate cleanly with frontend fabric during turn-up

Benefits

• Health & wellbeing: Comprehensive health benefits designed to support your overall wellness


• Time away: Paid time off for vacations, family bonding, and unexpected needs


• 401(k) match: Build your financial future with our 401(k) matching program


• Mental wellness: Resources and support for your emotional wellbeing and navigating life’s challenges

• Proven People Leadership: Track record of building and retaining a high-performing technical team


• Automation Fluency: Working understanding of Python/Ansible/ZTP-based deployment automation and CI/CD patterns, sufficient to drive adoption within your team


• Strong Technical Fluency: Solid grounding in physical layer standards (structured cabling, optics, 400G/800G and beyond), leaf-spine fabric (Arista/Juniper/NVIDIA-Mellanox), and protocols (BGP, EVPN-VXLAN, LLDP), enough to guide your team and engage credibly with Architecture


• 6+ years of experience in network engineering or data center deployment, including 2+ years managing engineers in a large-scale infrastructure environment


• Clear Communication: Comfortable setting context and managing expectations with stakeholders across Ops, Supply Chain, and Architecture


• Education: Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience in hyperscale or ISP environments


• Operational Judgment: Able to balance near‑term delivery pressure against team health and sustainability


• Program Execution: Demonstrated ability to deliver on multiple concurrent, complex projects spanning sites, time zones, and vendors, with solid reporting and risk management


• Vendor and Partner Management: Experience holding external partners to SLAs, including escalation when performance slips