Data Center Facility Operations Manager
Lambda · Kansas City, MO · Data Center Business
About this role
Lambda is hiring a manager-level Data Center Engineer in the operations function based in Kansas City, MO. The posting calls out experience with Serverless, Machine Learning, Cloud Computing. Compensation is listed at $185,000–$281,000 per year.
- Role
- Data Center Engineer
- Function
- operations
- Level
- manager
- Track
- hybrid
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Kansas City, MO
- Department
- Data Center Business
- Posted
- May 14, 2026
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Job description
from Lambda careersLambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers. Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.
If you'd like to build the world's best AI cloud, join us.
*Note: This position requires presence in our Kansas City, MO office location 5 days per week.
Travel Requirements: Initially low, scaling up to 50% travel across assigned regional sites as portfolio grows
What You’ll Do:
This is a unique, progressive leadership role designed to grow alongside Lambda's expanding infrastructure footprint. You will begin as the "Mayor of the Data Center," serving as the single point of accountability for the daily performance, safety, and uptime of a single critical high-density AI facility. In this initial phase, you will physically own the building 24/7, directly supervising daily shift operations and managing the on-site performance of our partners, including Salute Mission Critical and colocation landlords.