Data Center Site Manager - Hosting

Hamilton Barnes
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
18 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Compensation
£75,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Data Centers Uptime Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) Information Technology Network Server

Job description

The organisation is seeking a Site Manager to take ownership of one of its flagship AI data centres in Newcastle. The successful candidate will oversee the day-to-day operation of the facility, leading local teams, managing vendors, and ensuring the reliability, availability, and security of the infrastructure supporting large-scale AI training, inference, and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. This role offers the opportunity to lead operations within one of the UK’s most advanced AI data centre environments, supporting infrastructure powered by thousands of NVIDIA GPUs. Working closely with leadership, engineering, and construction teams, the successful candidate will play a key role in shaping operational standards and supporting the organisation’s continued global expansion. If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, feel free to reach out and apply today! Responsibilities

  • Own the day to day operation of the Newcastle data center facility
  • Lead and develop on site Data Center Operations and IT teams
  • Manage vendor relationships, maintenance providers and third party contractors
  • Ensure the availability and reliability of critical infrastructure including power, cooling and IT systems
  • Drive operational excellence through SOPs, MOPs, EOPs and best practice processes
  • Lead incident management, root cause analysis and service restoration activities
  • Oversee capacity planning, infrastructure upgrades and site expansion projects
  • Ensure compliance with health and safety, security and operational standards
  • Track KPIs relating to uptime, service delivery, operational efficiency and site performance
  • Act as the primary escalation point for site related operational issues

Requirements

Skills/Must have

  • Experience managing operations within a data center, colocation, hyperscale, cloud or critical infrastructure environment
  • Strong understanding of mission critical facilities including UPS, generators, cooling systems and electrical infrastructure
  • Experience leading technical operations, facilities or site teams
  • Knowledge of incident management, change management and operational governance
  • Experience managing vendors, contractors and service providers
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
  • Understanding of data center IT infrastructure including servers, storage and networking would be advantageous
  • Experience within AI, HPC, cloud or hyperscale environments would be highly beneficial

Benefits & conditions

  • Cash + equity compensation
  • Healthcare, wellbeing and lunch benefits
  • Profitable and rapidly growing organisation
  • Opportunity to lead one of the UK’s most advanced AI data center facilities
  • Exposure to cutting edge AI, GPU and HPC infrastructure
  • Significant career progression as the company expands globally, * Up to £75,000 based on experience

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