Senior Data Center Operations Manager

Wwshemi; Virginia; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Stock options

Market-leading parental leave

Job summary

Namespace Labs in the United States is seeking a Senior Data Center Operations Lead to own the physical build-out—from site selection to go-live and steady-state operations—and to manage power, cooling, racks, and vendors. You will partner with engineers across Europe and the US, ensuring reliable capacity and on-time delivery.

You will oversee data center operations, procurement, and runbooks, and play a pivotal role in setting US footprint standards and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• HHands-on experience building or operating data centers or large bare metal fleets.
• Solid understanding of power distribution, cooling, high-density racks, and high-speed networking.
• Experience deploying hardware at scale and managing colo contracts and vendors.
• Proficient with Linux and MacOS.
• Clear communication and ownership across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Own data center build-out from site selection to go-live and steady state.
• Manage power budgets, cooling, and density with providers.
• Deploy and maintain racks and cabling for compute/memory/storage.
• Collaborate with engineers on rack design and network capacity.
• Procure hardware, manage delivery/logistics, run site daily with runbooks.
• Manage vendors and SLAs; enforce high standards.
• Bridge site, Europe, and leadership, keeping timelines and risks visible.

Skills

Data center ops

Bare metal

Linux

MacOS

Vendor management

Cross-timezone comms

Tools

Colocation management tools

Network capacity planning tools

Job description

About the role

Namespace's approach is low-friction, designed for immediate integration into existing developer toolchains, empowering teams to experience tangible results within just five minutes. With an end-to-end stack optimized for high performance-including compute, memory, storage, and networking-Namespace delivers capabilities and efficiencies unmatched by traditional cloud providers.

We already run all our platforms - Linux, MacOS and Windows - on our own bare metal which allows us to optimize performance and reliability. And we are further expanding our footprint.

As the Senior Data Center Operations Lead, you'll own the physical side of that build-out end to end: power, cooling, racks, network, and the people and vendors who deliver on time. You'll work closely with our infrastructure engineers in Europe and the US to turn capacity plans into real racks. Critically, you’'ll also set the operating standards for the US footprint.

What you'll do

• Own the data center build-out and expansion, from site selection and cage design through go-live and steady-state operations
• Work through power budgets, cooling, and density with colocation providers
• Deploy and maintain racks: compute, memory and storage optimized servers, and cabling
• Work with our infrastructure engineers on rack design, network capacity, and peering, feeding what you learn on the floor back into the next design revision
• Own data center operations from purchase order to production: procure hardware, manage delivery and logistics, and run the site day to day with runbooks, maintenance, incident response, and root-cause analysis
• Manage hardware and datacenter vendors, contractors, and SLAs, and hold them to the same bar we hold ourselves
• Act as the bridge between the site, the team in Europe, and leadership, keeping timelines and risks visible

What we're looking for

• Hands-on experience building out or operating data centers or large‑scale bare metal fleets, including bringing new capacity online
• A real feel for the fundamentals: power distribution, cooling, high‑density racks, and high‑speed networking
• You've deployed hardware at scale, managing the colos, contractors, and vendors it takes to get it deployed
• Comfortable with Linux and MacOS
• Clear communication and ownership, especially when working across time zones with a distributed team
• Based near Ashburn, Virginia

You can expect:

• Competitive salary and stock options
• Market‑leading parental leave

Life at Namespace Labs:

• We pride ourselves in being a small team of experts that can achieve a lot.
• We balance our long‑term vision with short‑term pragmatism.
• We believe in being fully transparent internally on how decisions are made, on how the company is doing, and we use that information to drive our decisions.