About this role
The AI Infrastructure Site Operations Manager is the single accountable leader for end-to end GPU infrastructure operations at a DAMAC AI regional data center location. This role owns the 24/7 operational health, availability, and performance of all NVIDIA GPU cluster environments â managing a cross-functional team of AI Systems Engineers, Network & Security Engineers, AI Platform Engineers, and Site Resilience Engineer
Regional GPU Infrastructure Operations
Own the operational health and availability of all NVIDIA DGX B300 / GB300 and HGX B300 / GB300 GPU cluster environments at the regional site â achieving and sustaining â¥99.9% infrastructure uptime
Serve as the single point of operational accountability for the regional site â escalation owner for all P1 and P2 infrastructure incidents
Manage and coordinate 24/7 operations coverage across AI Systems, Network & Security, Platform, and Site Resilience engineering teams
Oversee physical data center operations including power, cooling, physical security, and facility management in coordination with data center facility teams
Ensure all GPU cluster operations comply with NVIDIA NCP reference architecture operational standards and certification requirements
Maintain operational readiness for all compute, storage, fabric, and software stack components across the regional portfolio
Team Leadership & People Management
Lead, manage, and develop a regional team of 8â15 engineers spanning AI Systems, Network & Security, Platform, and Site Resilience disciplines
Define team structure, shift rotations, on-call rotas, and escalation paths to ensure 24/7 operational coverage with no single point of failure
Conduct regular 1:1s, team performance reviews, and career development conversations â driving retention and capability growth
Build a high-performance, collaborative operations culture with a strong focus on reliability, accountability, and continuous improvement
Partner with VP Technology and HR to recruit, onboard, and develop engineering talent aligned to NVIDIA NCP operational requirements
Define training and certification plans for the team â ensuring all engineers maintain relevant NVIDIA, vendor, and professional certifications
Incident Management & Service Continuity
Lead and own P1 and P2 incident response for all regional GPU infrastructure events â ensuring rapid detection, containment, recovery, and communication within defined SLAs
Chair post-incident reviews and blameless post-mortems â ensuring root cause analysis is completed, findings documented, and remediation actions tracked to closure
Maintain and exercise incident response runbooks covering GPU node failure, InfiniBand fabric partition, storage cluster loss, power/cooling failure, and security incidents
Manage the on-call escalation framework ensuring 24/7 P1 response within 15 minutes across all regional engineering teams
Report incident trends, MTTR performance, and reliability improvements to VP Technology through weekly and monthly operations reviews