Data Center Operations Manager (GPU Infrastructure)

Location: On-site in Riga, Latvia

Salary: €38,000–€46,000 gross annually

Company

hirify.global is building a full-stack AI cloud spanning data centers, hardware, and a cloud platform for AI teams. The company is headquartered in Helsinki and operates offices in London and San Francisco.

What you will do

• Lead, support, coach, and develop a shift-based team of Data Center Technicians.
• Organize shift coverage, priorities, handovers, and daily site operations.
• Own the hardware lifecycle, including receiving, inventory, deployment, break/fix, replacement, relocation, RMAs, and decommissioning.
• Coordinate rack-and-stack, component replacement, copper and fibre cabling, link-level troubleshooting, cluster deployments, capacity expansions, and hardware refreshes.
• Lead on-site responses to hardware and connectivity incidents, including documentation, escalation, and stakeholder communication.
• Build operating procedures, runbooks, safety practices, escalation paths, records, and technician hiring and onboarding processes.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience in data-center operations or a comparable critical-infrastructure environment.
• Experience leading shift-based technical teams with strong knowledge of server hardware, rack-and-stack, component replacement, and structured cabling.
• Working knowledge of copper and fibre installation, optics, and link-level troubleshooting.
• Experience managing hardware deployments, incidents, inventory, and operational priorities.
• Strong operational judgment, including the ability to stop work, document situations, and escalate concerns.
• Ability to operate in an ambiguous, fast-evolving environment and establish clear processes across a broad scope of work.
• Strong people-management skills covering coaching, performance management, recruitment, and team development.
• Professional fluency in English is required for internal work and daily communication with colleagues in Finland. Fluency in Latvian is required for work with local parties.

Nice to have

• Experience with high-density GPU infrastructure or enterprise GPU platforms based on NVIDIA Ampere, Hopper, or Blackwell generations.
• Experience with liquid cooling, including direct-to-chip liquid cooling loops.
• Experience leading cluster deployments, data-hall expansions, or large hardware refresh projects.
• Experience establishing a new site, building a technician team, or creating operational procedures from the ground up.
• Experience across large structured organizations and fast-growing or less-defined environments.
• Familiarity with colocation service agreements, provider escalation procedures, and operational performance reviews.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, permanent employment with on-site work in Riga.
• Cash and equity compensation with local benefits.
• Opportunity to work with engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.
• Participation in an on-call rotation and leadership during urgent incidents outside normal working hours when required.
• Work in a fast-growing organization with a diverse workforce representing more than 40 nationalities.

Hiring process

• Submit the application through hirify.global’s Careers page; applications sent by email are not accepted.
• Application information will be processed to assess suitability for the role; consideration for future roles is optional and requires selecting the relevant application-form option.