Data Center Manager

Job Details

Job Location:

Columbus, GA 31907

Position Type:
Full Time Education Level: Graduate Degree Salary Range: $ - $ Salary/year Travel Percentage:
Negligible

The Data Center Manager is responsible for the safe, reliable, and efficient day-to-day operation of an assigned Duos Edge AI data center. The facility is a multi-tenant, mission-critical environment supporting high-density GPU compute and colocation workloads. The Data Center Manager maintains operational readiness as the site grows, customer capacity expands, and additional infrastructure is placed into service.

• Own 24/7 operational availability of the facility, including power, cooling, environmental, life-safety, and supporting systems, in accordance with contracted uptime commitments.
• Own preventive and reactive maintenance procedures for critical and general facility systems, including scheduling, execution, documentation, and oversight of vendor-performed maintenance.
• Exercise stop-work authority over any activity that places the facility, personnel, contractors, customers, or tenant equipment at risk.
• Manage the transition from construction and commissioning into live operations, including formal acceptance of systems, documentation, warranties, and open punch-list items.
• Maintain and execute Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Methods of Procedure (MOPs), Emergency Operating Procedures (EOPs), and change-control requirements for all critical systems.
• Oversee capacity management as the site grows, including power, cooling, space, and tenant allocation.

• Manage electrical distribution, UPS systems, generators, switch gear, grounding, and related infrastructure, including load balancing and power-factor performance against actual IT load.
• Manage mechanical and cooling systems, including liquid-to-chip cooling and containment configurations serving high-density racks.
• Monitor and report Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE), capacity utilization, system performance, alarms, and overall infrastructure health.
• Coordinate testing, maintenance, repairs, and lifecycle planning for critical infrastructure while minimizing operational risk.

• Serve as the primary on-site operational point of contact for GPU-as-a-service, colocation, and other facility customers.
• Own customer remote-hands requests from receipt through completion, ensuring response-time commitments are met, and all work is accurately documented.
• Receive, inspect, log, stage, secure, and manage customer equipment deliveries and inventory through handoff for installation.
• Coordinate tenant installations, moves, adds, changes, access requirements, and maintenance activity with security, IT, vendors, and the NOC.
• Deliver against tenant service-level agreements and Ready-for-Service commitments, and manage change control for tenant-affecting work.

• Manage, direct, and develop on-site data center personnel while remaining willing and able to contribute hands-on when operationally necessary.
• Own staffing schedules, task assignments, on-call coverage, training, performance management, and development for site personnel.
• Manage service contracts and vendor relationships for critical and general facility systems.
• Coordinate and control contractor activity on site, including ongoing construction during phased build-out, without compromising live operations.

• Own site safety and enforce safety procedures for employees, customers, vendors, and contractors working in a live electrical and mechanical environment.
• Coordinate physical security, access control, visitor management, camera coverage, and site-security procedures with the Director of Operations and corporate security resources.
• Maintain compliance with applicable codes, permits, company standards, and Authority Having Jurisdiction requirements.
• Maintain site Business Continuity, Emergency Action, and incident-response plans; lead site response and post-incident reviews.
• Ensure all operational work is performed under approved procedures, change control, and risk-management…