Data Center Operations Manager
Verda is a Helsinki-headquartered full-stack AI cloud provider offering on-demand GPU compute, clusters, serverless containers, storage, APIs, and related AI infrastructure.
Funding history
About Verda
Formerly DataCrunch, Verda operates European AI cloud infrastructure for the full AI lifecycle, from prototyping and distributed model training to scalable inference. It manages data-center infrastructure, hardware, cloud-platform services, and an in-house AI Lab.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead a shift-based technician team and own day-to-day data centre operations and hardware lifecycle activities. You will coordinate deployments, cabling, inventory, incident response, facility escalations, operating procedures, and site expansion while recruiting, coaching, and performance-managing technicians.
Requirements
- Experience in data centre operations or critical infrastructure
- Experience leading shift-based technical teams
- Knowledge of server hardware, rack-and-stack, component replacement, and structured cabling
- Knowledge of copper and fibre installation, optics, and link-level troubleshooting
- Experience managing hardware deployments, incidents, inventory, and operational priorities
- People management, coaching, recruitment, and team development skills
- English communication and stakeholder-management skills
Responsibilities
- Lead, support, and develop a shift-based team of Data Center Technicians
- Organise shift coverage, workload, priorities, handovers, and daily operations
- Manage the hardware lifecycle from receiving through decommissioning
- Ensure safe rack-and-stack, component replacement, cabling, and troubleshooting
- Coordinate cluster deployments, capacity expansions, and hardware refreshes
- Lead responses to hardware and connectivity incidents
- Build and improve procedures, runbooks, safety practices, and escalation paths
- Maintain asset, inventory, incident, maintenance, and work records
- Recruit, onboard, coach, and performance-manage technicians
- Monitor facility-provider communications and assess infrastructure impact
- Escalate service, safety, and operational concerns
- Participate in on-call rotation and lead urgent incidents
Benefits
- Equity compensation
- Local benefits