Fleet Operations Engineer — Data Center & HPC Infra

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full Benefits

Job summary

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited is seeking a Fleet Operations Engineer to own the health, performance, and availability of the hardware underpinning data-center AI workloads. You will work hands-on with production data center and HPC-style infrastructure to ensure reliability.

The role requires building tooling for fleet health, automating workflows, and responding to incidents, with on-call rotations and cross-team collaboration across platform and control-plane groups.

Qualifications

• Experience operating production data center or HPC infrastructure at scale.
• Strong systems fundamentals across macOS, Linux, and Unix.
• Programming/scripting in Python, Go, Rust, or Bash.
• Experience with telemetry, monitoring, and observability tooling for hardware fleets.
• Comfort with on-call responsibilities and on-site operational work.
• Builder mentality for a small, fast-moving team.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain production data center / HPC infrastructure running macOS, Linux, and Unix systems.
• Build and run tooling for fleet health, telemetry, and observability across the hardware fleet.
• Diagnose and resolve hardware and system-level issues, including on-site and remote troubleshooting.
• Automate fleet operations workflows using Python, Go, Rust, or Bash.
• Participate in on-call rotations and respond to production incidents affecting the fleet.
• Work cross-functionally with the platform/control-plane team to coordinate capacity and lifecycle events.
• Support scaling operations as the fleet grows, including new hardware onboarding and deployment.

Skills

Data center operations

macOS/Linux/Unix

Scripting languages

Telemetry/Observability

On-call readiness

Startup mindset

Job description

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited is seeking a Fleet Operations Engineer to own the health, performance, and availability of the hardware underpinning data-center AI workloads. You will work hands-on with production data center and HPC-style infrastructure to ensure reliability.

The role requires building tooling for fleet health, automating workflows, and responding to incidents, with on-call rotations and cross-team collaboration across platform and control-plane groups.