Datacenter Deployment Lead

This role is for a Datacenter Deployment Lead at Nscale, a GPU cloud company for AI. The lead will plan, organize, and oversee physical deployments across multiple international datacenter locations, leading teams of 3-5 Deployment Engineers. Responsibilities include validating design plans, ensuring operational readiness, and acting as the senior onsite authority, ensuring high-quality, consistent deployments following Nscale’s standards.

Must Have

• Proven experience leading technical teams in datacenter or infrastructure deployment environments
• Advanced knowledge of structured and fibre cabling
• Strong working knowledge of network/server hardware
• Experience creating and reviewing BOMs
• Significant previous datacenter experience
• Knowledge of CMDB tooling and asset management
• Experience designing and implementing repeatable processes
• Strong documentation and reporting abilities

Good to Have

• Python scripting experience
• Experience working with Infiniband fabrics
• Understanding of fat tree or rail-optimised designs for AI workloads
• Ability to perform performance-level diagnostics on AI fabrics

Perks & Benefits

• Collaborative, supportive, and innovative environment
• Highly competitive package (base + equity) with reviews every 12 months
• Opportunity to join a fast-growing tech startup and work on cutting-edge AI
• Dynamic progression plan tailored to ambitions
• Human-First Flexibility and autonomous work environment
• Remote-first team with seamless virtual collaboration

Please note: This role requires extensive international travel to our next-gen AI Datacenters. Please do not apply if you are not comfortable with extended periods of travel while on deployments.

About Nscale

Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.

At Nscale, our Deployment team plays a critical role in driving the delivery of our GPU infrastructure into our DCs.

We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.

About The Role

This role builds on the responsibilities of a Datacenter Deployment Engineer while adding leadership, coordination, and accountability for deployment teams. You will be responsible for planning, organising, and overseeing physical deployments across multiple international DC locations. You will lead teams of 3–5 Deployment Engineers to deliver large-scale GPU infrastructure projects, ensuring high-quality, consistent deployments that follow Nscale’s standards. Responsibilities include validating design plans, ensuring operational readiness, and acting as the senior onsite authority during deployments.

What You'll be Doing (Responsibilities)

Leadership & Team Coordination

• Lead onsite deployment teams (typically 3–5 engineers) across international DC locations.
• Coordinate task allocation, provide guidance, and ensure deployment teams work efficiently and safely.
• Act as the primary onsite decision-maker and escalation point during deployments.
• Mentor and develop Deployment Engineers, promoting best practices and high standards.
• Ensure clear communication between field teams, Engineering, Program Management, and DC partners.

Technical Deployment Responsibilities

(Includes all core engineering responsibilities from the Datacenter Deployment Engineer role)

• Plan and oversee layout of IT equipment within datacenters.
• Review BOMs and confirm all hardware fits available space while ensuring day-two maintainability.
• Validate that datacenter environmental maximums are adhered to:
• Power
• Cooling
• Weight limits
• Evaluate BOMs for interoperability, ensuring:
• Optics/AOC/DAC are fit for purpose
• Customer specifications are met
• Nscale project requirements are fulfilled
• Produce and validate structured cabling designs.
• Define, maintain, and enforce deployment standards across all sites.
• Oversee cable pathing, length estimation, procurement, and QC.
• Work cross-functionally with Engineering to ensure uniformity of deployments across all regions.
• Support initial configuration of firewalls/routers and base switch configuration.
• Serve as the onsite subject-matter expert for the full deployment lifecycle.

About You

• Proven experience leading technical teams in datacenter or infrastructure deployment environments.
• Advanced knowledge of structured and fibre cabling.
• Strong working knowledge of network/server hardware.
• Experience creating and reviewing BOMs.
• Significant previous datacenter experience.
• Knowledge of CMDB tooling and asset management.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to high-quality execution.
• Self-starter with a proactive approach—see a problem, fix a problem mentality.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with ability to coordinate across multiple stakeholders.
• Experience designing and implementing repeatable processes.
• Strong documentation and reporting abilities.

Nice to Have

• Python scripting experience
• Experience working with Infiniband fabrics
• Understanding of fat tree or rail-optimised designs for AI workloads
• Ability to perform performance-level diagnostics on AI fabrics

What We Can Offer You

At Nscale, you'll find a collaborative, supportive, and innovative environment where your contributions spark real impact. We're building something extraordinary, and we want you at the core.

• Highly competitive package (base + equity) with reviews every 12 months. 🚀
• Join the fastest-growing tech startup, your chance to push boundaries, collaborate with brilliant minds, and make your mark on cutting-edge AI. ✨
• Expect a dynamic progression plan tailored to your ambitions. Grow by trying new things, leading, challenging the status quo, and owning your impact, always with our full support.
• Human-First Flexibility: We treat you as humans first. 🫶🏽 Our flexible workplace trusts Nscalers to deliver, giving you the autonomy to shape your day around life's moments.

Join our thriving remote-first team. Geography is no barrier to impact or connection. We build seamless virtual collaboration, empowering you, wherever you work.

Equal Opportunities Statement

At NScale, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace. We believe that a variety of perspectives enriches our work environment, and we encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, experiences, and abilities. We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

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