Data Center Facilities Operations Lead
Remote$150k - $235kFull-timePosted 2mo ago
About the role
Lead the critical facilities operating model for Gimlet data centers and high-density AI infrastructure deployments, ensuring liquid-cooled systems and related facility infrastructure are ready, monitored, maintained, and operating within required envelopes.
Responsibilities
- Build the facilities operations model for current and future Gimlet sites, including operating standards, escalation paths, maintenance routines, acceptance criteria, and facility readiness gates.
- Translate OEM and engineering requirements for liquid-cooled platforms into practical site operating envelopes for temperature, flow, pressure, water quality, alarms, and heat rejection.
- Own monitoring and response for facility-side telemetry, including supply and return water temperatures, delta-T, flow, pressure, leak detection, CDU status, cooling capacity margins, and BMS/DCIM alarms.
- Partner with colocation providers, facility vendors, OEMs, Site Managers, Data Center Technicians, Deployment Leads, and TPMs to ensure facilities are ready before new compute capacity is deployed.
- Create and maintain MOPs, SOPs, EOPs, maintenance windows, runbooks, inspection routines, and incident response procedures for critical facilities and liquid cooling operations.
- Coordinate preventive maintenance, repairs, and vendor response for CDUs, facility water loops, filters, valves, pumps, sensors, leak detection systems, chillers, dry coolers, CRAHs, and related infrastructure.
- Lead facility-side root cause analysis for thermal, leak, power, cooling, monitoring, and environmental events, then drive durable corrective actions.
- Build reporting that shows facility health, risk, readiness, capacity margin, recurring issues, open repairs, and operational trends across Gimlet sites.
Qualifications
- Experience in data center facilities operations, critical facilities engineering, MEP operations, commissioning, or facilities maintenance
- Experience operating liquid-cooled, high-density compute infrastructure
- Familiarity with facility water systems, CDUs, heat rejection, leak detection, and water-quality controls
- Experience using BMS, DCIM, EPMS, or similar systems to monitor and respond to facility conditions
- The ability to create and execute operational procedures with strong attention to safety and reliability
- Experience coordinating across site teams, colocation providers, OEMs, and facilities vendors
- The ability to work in active data center environments and support urgent facilities escalations
Skills
Required:Data center facilities operationsLiquid-cooled high-density compute infrastructureBMS/DCIM/EPMS monitoringOperational procedures and safetyVendor and cross-team coordination
Last updated Oct 11, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Gimlet Labs
Gimlet Labs
Gimlet Labs is an applied research lab focused on building high performance AI systems.
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