Data Center Operations Lead

Futura is partnering with a leading AI infrastructure innovator to hire a Facility Operations Lead supporting next-generation hyperscale AI data centers.

Locations:

Buffalo, NY or West Texas (multiple campuses)

Onsite 5 days (relocation assistance provided)

This is a critical infrastructure role with equity participation, focused exclusively on data center infrastructure, power, cooling, resiliency, and operational risk in high-density AI environments.

Why This Role Matters

AI workloads demand extreme infrastructure reliability.

You will serve as the onsite owner of infrastructure risk - ensuring power distribution, cooling systems, and redundancy strategies are engineered and executed without failure.

This is not a broad site management role.

This is infrastructure authority.

Key Responsibilities

• Own infrastructure risk assessment and mitigation


• Lead power and cooling capacity planning across live GPU environments


• Design and oversee redundancy strategies (2N / N+1 / N+2)


• Execute and control high-risk change management


• Oversee commissioning processes (L1–L5)


• Serve as escalation lead during infrastructure-related incidents

Qualifications

• 5+ years in hyperscale or mission-critical infrastructure environments


• Deep expertise in UPS systems, generators, chillers, cooling towers, AHUs, and electrical distribution


• Strong understanding of concurrent maintainability and redundancy modeling


• Proven ability to lead during high-severity infrastructure events

Hyperscale experience is highly valuable but not required. Mission-critical industrial infrastructure backgrounds are also accepted.

Comp & Perks

• $160K-$180K base salary + pre-IPO equity


• Healthcare and comprehensive benefits


• Retirement plan + generous PTO


• Growth into portfolio-level infrastructure leadership as sites scale