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The Opportunity

A leading digital infrastructure platform is expanding its next generation AI compute capabilities and is seeking a Site Operations Manager to take end to end accountability for GPU infrastructure operations at a regional data centre location in Finland.

This is a senior operational leadership role spanning infrastructure procurement, architecture, deployment, live operations, maintenance, compliance and customer management.

You will lead a multidisciplinary engineering team, ensuring GPU cluster environments remain reliable, available, secure and operationally efficient while supporting the demands of hyperscale and enterprise customers.

Key Responsibilities

Operations Leadership: Lead AI Systems, Network & Security, AI Platform and Site Resilience Engineers, maintaining effective 24/7 operational coverage.
GPU Infrastructure: Own the health, availability and operational performance of GPU cluster environments, including incident management and service restoration.
Maintenance & Change: Govern infrastructure maintenance, change management and operational readiness.
Capacity Planning: Oversee capacity planning, utilisation reporting and infrastructure performance.
Compliance & Governance: Ensure operational processes meet relevant compliance, security and governance requirements.
Customer Management: Manage relationships with hyperscaler and enterprise customers, ensuring service quality and effective stakeholder communication.
Procurement & Vendors: Own supplier relationships, procurement coordination and vendor performance across the infrastructure lifecycle.
End to End Accountability: Coordinate activities across architecture, deployment, operations and ongoing maintenance to ensure reliable service delivery.

Experience & Background

We are looking for an experienced infrastructure operations leader with:

Experience operating GPU, AI compute, HPC or other complex mission critical infrastructure.
A track record leading multidisciplinary technical teams in demanding operational environments.
Strong knowledge of incident management, service availability, maintenance and change control.
Experience with capacity planning, compliance, vendor management and customer facing service delivery.
The ability to take ownership, build operational discipline and scale processes as infrastructure expands.

Experience with NVIDIA GPU platforms, high performance networking and GPU as a Service or Rack as a Service models would be advantageous.