Facilities Operations Lead - Data Center

SST Direct
Houston, TX
We are seeking several Facilities Operations Lead for direct hire, full-time roles with a growing Data Center infrastructure company in Buffalo, NY and Houston, TX.
About the Company
Building the infrastructure for abundant intelligence, partnering with top AI labs, governments, and enterprises - including Mistral, Poolside, Black Forest Labs, Meta, and more - to unlock compute at the speed of light.
About the Team
The Data Center Operation team supports the company's fast growth by deploying and operating hyperscale datacenters. The team takes full onsite responsibility for each site and manages the end-to-end lifecycle of hardware fleet, providing various infrastructure solutions and services ensuring that they are scalable and reliable.
Salary & Benefits
  • Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).
  • Retirement or pension plan, in line with local norms.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Generous PTO policy, in line with local norms.
  • The base salary range for this position is $100,000 - $150,000 per year, depending on experience, skills, qualifications, and location. This range represents our good faith estimate of the compensation for this role at the time of posting. Total compensation may also include equity in the form of stock options.
Responsibilities for Facilities Operations Lead:
  • Support the DC Operations teams as a Subject Matter Expert and handle escalations in the area of data center critical infrastructure and other facilities within the white space.
  • Understand and manage design limitations and risks of the datacenter, and regularly audit, review, and collaborate with our colo-cation partners or service providers on their maintenance program and effectiveness.
  • Manage and drive the change management process for high-risk maintenance activities in our data centers.
  • Manage incident as the first responder onsite while getting support from SMEs of datacenter engineering and infrastructure domains.
  • Provide onsite services to support many other initiatives and continually maintain positive and collaborative working relations with customers, partner teams, vendors, and internal stakeholders.
Minimum Qualifications for Facilities Operations Lead:
  • Knowledge of standard power and cooling calculations necessary to determine capacity requirements (i.e., TIA-942, ASHRAE).
  • Experience with Power Redundancy and its implementation in design (i.e., 2N or N+1 Distributed Redundant).
  • Understand Cooling Redundancy and how Concurrent Maintainability is implemented in design (i.e., N+1 or N+2).
Experience in the following areas :
  • Supervision of the construction team to complete Data Hall build-out experience, including IT services Coordination, Power and Cooling Planning.
  • Influence the testing and commissioning team to perform L1 to L5 commissioning tests to validate the system design intent and resolve technical problems.
  • Electrical and/or mechanical engineering experience such as generators, chillers, cooling towers, air handling units, UPS, electrical sub-distribution systems, etc.
Preferred Qualifications for Facilities Operations Lead:
  • Direct experience working with GPU servers, H100, B200, GB200 etc.
  • Diploma or Professional Certification in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or relevant discipline.
  • A high level of agility with the ability to prioritize work and stay organized in a complex, fast-paced environment with high ambiguity.
  • Vendors, projects, or program engagement experience.
If you are interested in learning more about this role, please submit your resume for immediate consideration!
Feel free to text “Data Center” to 321-418-6672 for faster response.
INDH

Posted 2026-01-21

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