Head of Data Center Operations
Fal.aiGenerative Media company
San Francisco, United StatesDirector
Andreessen Horowitz
Meritech Capital Partners
Salesforce Ventures
Kindred Ventures
Notable Capital
Shopify Ventures
Operations & Strategy
About the role
TL;DR
Lead end-to-end data center operations for a GPU fleet powering AI inferences.
- •fal is building the generative media ecosystem powering the next generation of AI products.
- •As Head of Data Center Operations, you will own the end-to-end strategy, capacity, build-out, and steady-state operations for the GPU fleet that powers every fal inference.
- •Key Responsibilities Own the full DC operations lifecycle
- •planning, design, build-out, deployment, and steady-state operations across our sites.
- •Set infrastructure operations strategy
- •capacity, cost, reliability, and scale, with clear OKRs/KPIs.
- •Run operations through the on-site team
- •direct site lead and technicians, own incident and escalation management.
- •Partner with Engineering, Network, and Capacity Planning to execute infrastructure expansion.
- •Develop operational processes, documentation, and vendor governance.
- •Requirements 10+ years in data center / infrastructure operations including senior leadership (Director level) owning multi-site or global operations. 10MW+ facility experience
- •owned operations for a large-scale, mission-critical data center.
- •Full-lifecycle experience
- •planning and build-out through steady-state.
- •Strategic and cross-functional range
- •partner naturally with engineering, finance, and business leadership.
- •Command of commercial / vendor relationships and colocation / leased-space operations.
Required skills
LinuxGitKubernetesDockerCI/CDAWSGoogle CloudAzureTerraformVendor ManagementContract Management
Nice-to-have skills
PythonBashJiraConfluencePostmanREST API
Domain expertise
aideveloper-tools
Tech stack
PythonBashLinuxGitJiraConfluencePostmanREST APIKubernetesDockerCI/CDAWSGoogle CloudAzureTerraform