Lead, Critical Facility Operations

Ample Industries (Formerly Vortx); Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Ample Industries (Formerly Vortx) is seeking a hands-on Site Operations Lead to run our facilities in Santa Monica. You’ll oversee compute, cooling, batteries and power on site, set operating standards and build the team as we add sites.

You will manage vendors, write runbooks and maintenance schedules, and own uptime & incident response, ensuring high availability across all sites with on-call readiness.

Qualifications

• Experience running critical facility operations.
• Hands-on with power distribution, batteries or UPS, and cooling.
• Comfortable on site and on call.
• Liquid cooling or GPU cluster experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Bring new sites online and keep them running.
• Write the runbooks, maintenance schedules and on-call process.
• Manage vendors, spares and field service.
• Track uptime and own the response when something fails.

Skills

Facility operations

Power distribution

Battery/UPS handling

Cooling systems

On-site presence

GPU cluster experience

Job description

Ample Industries (Formerly Vortx) is seeking a hands-on Site Operations Lead to run our facilities in Santa Monica. You’ll oversee compute, cooling, batteries and power on site, set operating standards and build the team as we add sites.

You will manage vendors, write runbooks and maintenance schedules, and own uptime & incident response, ensuring high availability across all sites with on-call readiness.