Data Center Operations, Site Lead at Gimlet · LumiJobs

Responsibilities

As a DC Site Lead, you will serve as Gimlet’s senior on-site leader, accountable for the local team, operational readiness, safe execution, and reliable production. This is a senior people-leadership role with scope typically associated with a senior manager or director of data center operations.
What success looks like
Your priorities will be to:
Build and lead the site team: hire, coach, and set clear expectations for DC Technicians, the Inventory Person, and the Facilities Person. Establish training, business-hours coverage, on-call responsibilities, and effective vendor relationships.
Maintain a complete view of site readiness and health across power, cooling, networking, compute, inventory, and physical security, supporting both homogeneous and heterogeneous hardware deployments. Use monitoring, incidents, work orders, and provider reports to identify risks, assign owners, and verify resolution.
Hold the colocation provider accountable for contracted service levels. Review maintenance evidence, upcoming critical work, and recurring failures with the site Facilities Person; escalate gaps through central facilities and commercial owners.
Own Gimlet’s operational acceptance of new capacity. Set readiness criteria with DC Design, deployment, engineering, and central facilities teams; verify commissioning evidence, documentation, spares, trained responders, and closure of critical deficiencies. Withhold operational acceptance when readiness criteria are unmet and escalate launch risks.
Establish the site’s operating procedures, emergency runbooks, maintenance calendar, and change controls. Govern work priorities and coordinate provider activities affecting Gimlet equipment, with defined approvals, rollback plans, and escalation paths. Rehearse incident scenarios before production and as the site evolves.
Act as Gimlet’s senior on-site decision-maker during incidents. Direct the local response, mobilize engineering and provider specialists, make time-critical decisions within established authority, and maintain clear communication through recovery. Own follow-through on root cause and corrective actions.
Keep hardware break/fix, spares, asset records, rack documentation, and vendor support organized. Track overdue work, recurring faults, response times, provider performance, and site operating spend against approved budgets.
Control access and work within Gimlet’s site footprint, coordinating building-wide activity with the colocation provider. Enforce contractor and safety requirements, stop unsafe or unapproved work affecting Gimlet operations, and require qualified personnel and approved controls for electrical or mechanical work.
You may be a good fit if

Data Center Operations, Site Lead

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Company

Gimlet

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