Bare Metal Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a Bare Metal Infrastructure Engineer to lead on-site hardware deployment for new data center locations supporting large scale AI and GPU infrastructure. This is a hands-on infrastructure role focused on bringing new sites from shipment arrival through full operational readiness.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the hardware deployment plan for new data center sites, including timelines, scope, resources, and readiness milestones.
• Coordinate with logistics, supply chain, construction, network engineering, infrastructure engineering, and operations teams.
• Verify site readiness before deployment, including racks, power, cooling, connectivity, cabling pathways, and installation requirements.
• Review technical documentation, rack elevations, wiring diagrams, BOMs, deployment runbooks, and site layouts.
• Serve as the on-site point of contact for deployment activities and escalation during installation.
• Supervise and participate in receiving, unpacking, racking, stacking, cabling, labeling, and powering hardware.
• Support deployment of servers, storage systems, network devices, optics, cabling, and related data center infrastructure.
• Ensure hardware is installed according to design standards, cabling standards, safety requirements, and operational procedures.
• Cook up with vendors, contractors, remote engineers, and local data center staff during installation.
• Support firmware updates, hardware configuration, asset validation, and integration with management or monitoring systems.
• Perform first-line troubleshooting during deployment across hardware, cabling, optics, power, network connectivity, and Linux-based hosts.
• Validate server health, network connectivity, management access, and readiness for handoff to operations teams.
• Identify and escalate issues involving hardware faults, cabling defects, configuration gaps, or site readiness blockers.
• Work with infrastructure, systems, and network engineering teams to resolve deployment issues quickly and safely.
• Conduct functional checks, acceptance testing, and deployment validation before production handoff.
• Document installation steps, asset data, cabling details, test results, issues, and lessons learned.
• Support transition of deployed infrastructure to operations teams for steady-state management.
• Contribute feedback to improve deployment playbooks, hardware standards, and site readiness processes.
• Maintain high standards for safety, documentation, change control, and operational discipline.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data center infrastructure, hardware deployment, IT field engineering, infrastructure operations, or related technical environments.
• Hands-on experience with server, storage, and network hardware installation, including racking, cabling, labeling, powering, and validation.
• Experience working in data center environments with racks, structured cabling, power distribution, cooling requirements, and physical infrastructure dependencies.
• Basic working knowledge of Linux-based systems, including comfort with command-line checks, connectivity validation, logs, or host-level troubleshooting.
• Ability to read and interpret technical documentation, rack elevations, site layouts, wiring diagrams, and deployment runbooks.
• Proven ability to coordinate deployments across vendors, contractors, logistics, network teams, construction teams, and operations stakeholders.
• Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced deployment environments with changing priorities.
• Willingness to travel frequently, sometimes on short notice.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting GPU, HPC, AI infrastructure, high-density compute, or clustered server environments.
• Familiarity with high-speed networking, optics, fiber cabling, MPO/MTP, InfiniBand, RoCE, or similar technologies.
• Experience with hardware diagnostics, firmware updates, out-of-band management, and server validation workflows.
• Familiarity with asset tracking, change management, QA checklists, and deployment acceptance testing.
• Experience using Linux, Bash, Python, Ansible, Terraform, or similar tools in infrastructure environments.
• Experience working in hyperscale, cloud-scale, colocation, or large enterprise data center environments.
• Understanding of health, safety, and environmental standards in data center or industrial settings.