Engineering Manager (Deployment)

• We’re looking for problem-solving, opportunity-finding teammates with a sense of urgency, who believe in the scale of our ambition and thrive on a path not fully paved — people who want to grow their careers alongside a team of experts across energy, manufacturing, data center construction, and cloud services
• If you want to do the most meaningful work of your career, help our customers and partners advance their AI strategies, and be part of a high-performing team that believes in each other, come build with us at Crusoe
• Crusoe Cloud is seeking an Engineering Manager, Deployment to help lead the organization responsible for physically and logically bringing our global network online
• As we rapidly scale our footprint of high-performance compute (HPC) and GPU-based AI infrastructure, you will manage a deployment team’s people, process, and delivery across a portion of our growing portfolio of concurrent global builds, working closely with Network Deployment technical leadership to execute against strategy
• You’re accountable for your team’s output: every site, every quarter, at hyperscale pace
• You build and grow your team, help drive adoption of deployment standards in day-to-day practice, and contribute to planning conversations with Data Center Ops, Supply Chain, and Site Reliability leadership
• Build and Lead Your Team: Manage your team’s structure and growth. Hire and develop Network Production Engineers across multiple sites and time zones
• Drive Deployment Automation Adoption: Help execute the automation strategy across the deployment lifecycle, including ZTP-based provisioning, Ansible-driven configuration, and CI/CD pipelines for network turn-up. Hold your engineers accountable for replacing manual, repeatable steps with automated workflows as the site pipeline scales
• Deliver Your Portion of the Portfolio: Be accountable for on-time, zero-defect delivery across your assigned site build-outs. Manage the operating cadence and staffing for your team within the broader program
• Execute Against Strategy: Work with Network Deployment technical leadership to turn deployment strategy and standards into execution plans for your team, and surface field realities that should inform how those standards evolve
• Report on Program Status: Provide program reporting and risk escalation on your team’s work to Data Center Ops, Supply Chain, and Site Reliability leadership as needed
• Manage Vendor and Partner Performance: Hold structured cabling vendors, remote hands, and data center providers to defined SLAs and quality bars for your sites. Escalate systemic partner issues
• Champion Validation Rigor: Ensure burn-in and site acceptance testing (SAT) standards are consistently met across your sites. Partner with Operations leadership on handoff quality and root-cause resolution
• Support Capacity Planning: Provide input to Supply Chain and Infrastructure leadership on hardware lifecycle, lead-time risk, and turn-up cadence for your team’s site pipeline
• Contribute to Continuous Improvement: Participate in cross-site retrospectives and post-incident reviews. Surface gaps in tooling, staffing, or process for your team
• Develop Team Members: Coach engineers into stronger technical and people contributors
• Apply Frontend Network Reference Architecture: Build sites against established reference architectures for the frontend GPU/compute fabric (leaf-spine design, RDMA/RoCE, optics, scale-out topology), and provide field feedback to Architecture as GPU generations and interconnect standards evolve
• Apply Backend Network Reference Architecture: Build sites against established reference architectures for backend networks (storage fabric, management, out-of-band connectivity), ensuring your team’s builds integrate cleanly with frontend fabric during turn-up

Benefits

• Health & wellbeing: Comprehensive health benefits designed to support your overall wellness
• Time away: Paid time off for vacations, family bonding, and unexpected needs
• 401(k) match: Build your financial future with our 401(k) matching program
• Mental wellness: Resources and support for your emotional wellbeing and navigating life’s challenges

• Proven People Leadership: Track record of building and retaining a high-performing technical team
• Automation Fluency: Working understanding of Python/Ansible/ZTP-based deployment automation and CI/CD patterns, sufficient to drive adoption within your team
• Strong Technical Fluency: Solid grounding in physical layer standards (structured cabling, optics, 400G/800G and beyond), leaf-spine fabric (Arista/Juniper/NVIDIA-Mellanox), and protocols (BGP, EVPN-VXLAN, LLDP), enough to guide your team and engage credibly with Architecture
• 6+ years of experience in network engineering or data center deployment, including 2+ years managing engineers in a large-scale infrastructure environment
• Clear Communication: Comfortable setting context and managing expectations with stakeholders across Ops, Supply Chain, and Architecture
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience in hyperscale or ISP environments
• Operational Judgment: Able to balance near-term delivery pressure against team health and sustainability
• Program Execution: Demonstrated ability to deliver on multiple concurrent, complex projects spanning sites, time zones, and vendors, with solid reporting and risk management
• Vendor and Partner Management: Experience holding external partners to SLAs, including escalation when performance slips