NexGen Cloud - Datacentre Deployment Lead

• Rather than a checklist, here's what success in this role actually looks like: • Own each site as the onsite decision-maker, leading Deployment Engineers day to day, directing contractors safely, and escalating only what genuinely sits beyond onsite authority. • Collaborate closely with the Senior Deployment Lead, Network Engineering, Procurement & Supply Chain, and Data Centre Operations/NOC to take every build from validated design to clean handover. • Validate design plans and BOMs before hardware arrives, checking space, power, cooling, weight and interoperability (optics, AOC, DAC) so issues are fixed at planning, not on site. • Produce and validate structured and fibre cabling designs, including length estimates, oversee cable pathing, and run cabling QC so every install matches the design before sign-off. • Oversee racking and installation of GPU servers and network hardware, support fabric installation and cutover, and make sure commissioning meets the agreed acceptance criteria. • Define and enforce the deployment standards every region builds to — rack, cabling, labelling and documentation — and hand over every site with complete as-built records. • Run post-deployment reviews, turn the findings into better workflows, and develop your engineers so the team takes on more of each build over time. • We care more about how you think and work than a perfect CV. You'll likely bring a combination of the following: • Experience leading a technical deployment team on site — allocating work and acting as the onsite authority, not just the most experienced engineer on the crew. • Advanced structured and fibre cabling experience, including producing designs, estimating lengths and running QC. • Experience creating and reviewing BOMs against space, power, cooling, weight and interoperability, including optics, AOC and DAC. • Willingness to travel internationally around 50% of the time (sometimes at short notice, for days or weeks at a time), and fluent English with clear written reporting. • GPU or HPC cluster build experience, ideally including InfiniBand and fat-tree or rail-optimised fabric designs. • Experience leading a multi-person deployment team across more than one country. • Scripting experience, for example Python.