Head of AI Infrastructure & Data Center Automation

Jobtailor; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Leader to Bellevue, WA, driving data center infrastructure bring-up and production readiness. Lead platform lifecycle from hardware to automated provisioning and workload readiness, building scalable automation for bare-metal provisioning and Linux deployment.

You will oversee GPU clusters, Kubernetes environments, and distributed compute infrastructure, establishing standards for servers, GPUs, networking, and firmware.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience across infrastructure, software, systems, platform engineering, or related technical disciplines.
• 5+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing and developing highly technical teams
• Proven experience building and operating large-scale data center, cloud, HPC, or AI infrastructure
• Strong technical understanding of Linux, distributed systems, networking, and infrastructure automation
• Hands-on understanding of Kubernetes, containers, and infrastructure-as-code
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex infrastructure deployments and bring new environments into production
• Ability to operate across hardware and software organizations
• Strong communication and cross-functional leadership skills
• Hands-on, high-ownership leadership style suited to a fast-moving, build-from-the-ground-up environment
• Preferred: experience with GPU infrastructure, NVIDIA platforms, AI or HPC environments

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering organization responsible for data center infrastructure bring-up and production readiness
• Own the platform lifecycle from installed hardware through automated provisioning, configuration, validation, and workload readiness
• Build and scale automation for bare-metal provisioning, Linux deployment, configuration management, and infrastructure validation
• Lead deployment and configuration of GPU clusters, Kubernetes environments, and distributed compute infrastructure
• Establish engineering standards for servers, GPUs, networking, storage, firmware, and system configuration
• Drive infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, Bash, and similar technologies
• Oversee integration with Redfish, IPMI, BMCs, PXE, MAAS, Ironic, Foreman, or comparable platforms
• Partner with Network, Hardware/GPU, Data Center Operations, SRE, and Software Engineering teams
• Establish automated testing, health checks, monitoring, and validation processes
• Improve deployment speed, reliability, automation, scalability, and operational efficiency
• Build and develop a highly capable engineering organization and scalable processes

Skills

Infrastructure Automation

Kubernetes Deployment

Linux Systems Management

Engineering Leadership

Data Center Operations

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Bash

Redfish

IPMI

BMC

PXE

MAAS

Ironic

Foreman

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Leader to Bellevue, WA, driving data center infrastructure bring-up and production readiness. Lead platform lifecycle from hardware to automated provisioning and workload readiness, building scalable automation for bare-metal provisioning and Linux deployment.

You will oversee GPU clusters, Kubernetes environments, and distributed compute infrastructure, establishing standards for servers, GPUs, networking, and firmware.