Data Center Critical Infrastructure Lead

Job Description

Locations: River Bend, LA (ONSITE) Relocation required (fully covered)

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The mission

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We're building the compute infrastructure that determines who shapes the future of AI. Whoever deploys frontier compute fastest — at gigawatt scale — decides whether that future expands human freedom or narrows it. This is a confidential search on behalf of a company doing exactly that: acquiring power, designing and building data centers, and operating them, faster than anyone else in the market.

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Why join

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• You'll be the on-site authority, not someone waiting on one — full ownership of critical infrastructure risk and change management for the site
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• Work inside live, active build-out — the site's operating posture is being defined in real time, and your judgment shapes it
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• Real technical ownership over power and cooling systems at a scale few sites in the country operate at
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• Direct exposure to the build-out of the most capital-intensive infrastructure in tech right now
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• Relocation handled end-to-end — you're not solving your own logistics problem on top of a new job
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Role scope

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• Serve as on-site SME for critical infrastructure, handling escalations across white space and supporting facilities
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• Understand site design limitations and risk; audit colocation partners and service providers on maintenance programs and effectiveness
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• Own the change management process for high-risk maintenance activities
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• Act as first responder on-site for incidents, driving resolution with support from engineering and infrastructure SMEs
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• Partner with colo partners, vendors, and internal teams to keep the site reliable; feed operational learnings back into design and process
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Who we're looking for

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• You've operated or led critical-facilities operations in a live data center, owning the physical infrastructure that keeps a site running
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• You know the critical-infrastructure stack — power and cooling — well enough to be the on-site authority
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• You run change management for high-risk work and hold vendors/partners to a real standard
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• You're calm and capable when something fails at 3am — you're the first responder, not the one waiting for one
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• You audit, document, and improve — leaving the site's operating posture stronger than you found it
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• Bonus: hyperscale or colocation operations experience, Uptime Institute or NFPA familiarity, MOP/EOP experience, vendor and colo management
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What's required

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• Willingness to relocate to Louisiana, Texas, New York, or Indiana — the company covers moving costs, housing search, and all logistics
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• Comfort operating in a fast-moving, high-trust environment with real stakes attached to your output
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Compensation & benefits

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Competitive total compensation (salary + equity), retirement/pension in line with local norms, health/dental/vision insurance, generous PTO.