Job Details

Job Description:

• Facilities Operator

Overview:

• Serve as a facilities and critical-infrastructure resource onsite.
• Support power, cooling, resiliency, and building readiness across the data center.
• Help maintain reliable, scalable infrastructure for high-density AI workloads.

Focus Areas:

• Power and electrical infrastructure.
• Cooling and mechanical systems.
• Facility resiliency and redundancy.
• Building and data-center readiness.
• Critical infrastructure maintenance and incident response.

Must-Have Qualifications:

• 4+ years of critical-facilities and data-center operations experience.
• Experience supporting electrical and mechanical infrastructure in live environments.
• Strong understanding of cooling systems; liquid-cooling experience is highly valued.
• Ability to respond to infrastructure incidents and coordinate with technical SMEs.
• Strong communication, documentation, and vendor-management skills.

Relevant Backgrounds

Candidates may come from:

• Equinix.
• Colocation providers.
• Switch.
• CyrusOne.
• Other hyperscale, AI, or mission-critical data-center environments.

About the Team:

• The Data Center Operations team supports Client's rapid growth by deploying and operating hyperscale data centers.
• The team takes full onsite responsibility for each facility and manages the end-to-end lifecycle of the hardware fleet and supporting infrastructure.
• This includes delivering scalable and reliable infrastructure solutions and services across active data-center environments.

About the Role:

• Client is seeking Facilities Operators with strong technical infrastructure backgrounds who are passionate about engineering excellence and developing effective, sustainable solutions.
• Candidates should understand the challenges associated with deploying infrastructure at scale and have experience supporting systems that meet high standards for performance, availability, security, resiliency, and cost.
• The work performed in this role will help shape operational processes and infrastructure standards across the broader organization.

Responsibilities:

• Support Data Center Operations teams as a facilities and critical-infrastructure resource.
• Serve as a subject-matter resource for data-center critical infrastructure and facilities within the white space.
• Understand and manage facility design limitations, capacity constraints, and operational risks.
• Regularly audit and review infrastructure posture, maintenance programs, and service effectiveness.
• Collaborate with Client's colocation partners, service providers, vendors, and internal teams.
• Manage and support the change-management process for high-risk maintenance activities.
• Respond to incidents as an onsite first responder while coordinating with data-center engineering and infrastructure SMEs.
• Support power, cooling, mechanical, and facility-readiness initiatives.
• Maintain positive and collaborative working relationships with customers, partner teams, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
• Support construction, commissioning, maintenance, and operational-readiness activities.
• Identify process improvements that increase facility reliability, safety, and operational consistency.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Knowledge of standard power and cooling calculations used to determine data-center capacity requirements, including TIA-942 and ASHRAE principles.
• Understanding of power redundancy and its implementation in facility design, including 2N and N+1 distributed-redundant configurations.
• Understanding of cooling redundancy and concurrent maintainability, including N+1 and N+2 configurations.

Electrical and/or mechanical infrastructure experience with systems such as:

• Generators.
• Chillers.
• Cooling towers.
• Air-handling units.
• UPS systems.
• Electrical sub-distribution systems.
• Pumps, controls, and associated facility equipment.

Preferred Experience:

• Supervision or coordination of data-hall buildouts, including IT-services coordination, power planning, and cooling planning.
• Experience supporting active construction and operational data-center environments.
• Experience influencing or coordinating testing and commissioning teams through L1–L5 commissioning activities.
• Ability to validate system design intent and help resolve technical issues during commissioning.
• Experience supporting maintenance, operations, and infrastructure readiness for live facilities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Direct experience working with GPU servers and high-density AI infrastructure, including H100, B200, or GB200 systems.
• Diploma, degree, or professional certification in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, facilities engineering, or a related discipline.
• Experience with liquid-cooling systems or other high-density cooling architectures.
• Strong agility and ability to prioritize work in a complex, fast-paced environment with high ambiguity.
• Vendor, project, or program-engagement experience.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with attention to clarity and detail.
• Ability to work fully onsite at the River Bend, LA data-center location.
• Salary and Benefits
• Competitive total compensation package, including salary and equity.
• Retirement or pension plan in line with local norms.
• Generous PTO policy in line with local norms.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.