Vice President of Infrastructure & Deployment (Remote/Hybrid)

Vice President of Infrastructure & Deployment Pay $250000.00 - $300000.00 Target Bonus 50% Equity 0.25-0.5%

Benefits

Health Dental Vision 401k

Location

& Travel Remote or hybrid with regular travel to data center markets customer deployment sites vendor locations and company operating sessions expected. About Acasia Acasia builds deploys and operates high-performance GPU infrastructure for enterprise AI workloads. Our customers rely on Acasia to deliver production-grade GPU environments that are performant reliable scalable and supportable in real-world data center conditions. As Acasia expands across multiple data center markets we are hiring a Vice President of Infrastructure & Deployment to serve as our senior infrastructure subject matter expert technical authority and escalation leader for GPU infrastructure design deployment readiness complex troubleshooting ongoing support and production reliability.

Role Summary

The Vice President of Infrastructure & Deployment owns the successful delivery implementation commissioning and operational readiness of Acasia's AI infrastructure across customer and data center environments. This executive owns the complete delivery lifecycle—from customer handoff after contract execution through deployment planning installation networking cluster bring-up validation production acceptance and ongoing optimization—ensuring every GPU cluster is delivered safely on schedule on budget and to Acasia's standards before entering production. The VP will build and lead Acasia's Infrastructure Delivery organization managing field engineering teams that implement large-scale GPU clusters across multiple data centers and customer locations. They will establish deployment methodologies technical standards playbooks commissioning procedures and quality controls while driving continuous improvement in deployment speed consistency and customer experience. They will work hand-in-hand with customers Sales Customer Success Engineering Product Operations Procurement OEM partners networking vendors and data center operators. Mission Build the industry's fastest most reliable GPU infrastructure deployment organization—taking customer environments from signed contract to production in weeks instead of months.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure Architecture & Technical Leadership Own infrastructure architecture standards for GPU clusters across all Acasia deployments. Define reference architectures for rack layouts power distribution cooling networking storage monitoring telemetry and remote management. Review customer infrastructure designs for scalability resilience serviceability deployment efficiency and lifecycle management. Identify technical and deployment risks before implementation begins. Establish repeatable infrastructure standards that simplify deployment while improving reliability and operational excellence. Partner with Engineering Product Security Sales Customer Success Procurement OEMs and customers to ensure infrastructure designs meet both technical and commercial objectives. Networking & Cluster Integration Own deployment and validation of high-performance AI networking environments. Lead implementation of InfiniBand Ethernet RoCE RDMA NVLink NVSwitch GPUDirect and NVIDIA networking technologies. Oversee spine-leaf architecture deployment east-west networking switch configuration storage networking and cluster connectivity. Establish standards for network validation benchmarking congestion analysis latency optimization and fabric performance tuning. Validate cluster communication performance using NCCL MPI RDMA and other AI infrastructure benchmarking tools. Partner with NVIDIA and networking OEMs to optimize production environments. Production Readiness & Commissioning Define production acceptance standards for every customer deployment. Own Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) cluster commissioning and customer handoff. Establish standards for hardware acceptance BIOS and firmware consistency GPU validation driver installation CUDA readiness storage validation telemetry monitoring and observability. Lead burn-in procedures stress testing soak testing redundancy validation performance baselining and workload validation before production acceptance. Ensure every customer environment meets Acasia's technical standards before entering production. Program Management & Deployment Execution Build and manage deployment schedules for large-scale infrastructure implementations. Coordinate execution across internal teams customers OEMs contractors and deployment partners. Track milestones critical path activities dependencies and implementation risks. Lead executive deployment reviews and customer implementation meetings. Develop standardized governance reporting and deployment management processes. Drive continuous improvement in deployment efficiency predictability and execution quality. Technical Escalation & Problem Resolution Serve as Acasia's highest-level technical escalation point for complex infrastructure issues. Lead cross-functional war-room responses during critical deployments or production-impacting incidents. Troubleshoot issues spanning GPU hardware Linux networking firmware drivers storage environmental systems and customer workloads. Partner with Engineering OEMs vendors data center providers and customers on root cause analysis and permanent corrective actions. Convert recurring issues into improved standards tooling automation documentation and deployment methodologies. Leadership & Organizational Development Build and lead Acasia's Infrastructure Delivery and Field Engineering organization. Recruit mentor and develop world-class infrastructure engineers and deployment leaders. Establish technical certification and training programs across the organization. Build repeatable knowledge transfer mechanisms technical playbooks deployment standards and troubleshooting frameworks. Foster a culture of accountability precision technical excellence customer obsession and continuous improvement. Vendor & Strategic Partner Management Build executive technical relationships with NVIDIA OEM partners networking providers storage vendors and data center operators. Evaluate new infrastructure technologies deployment methodologies and vendor capabilities. Participate in technical due diligence for new data center markets and deployment strategies. Hold strategic partners accountable during implementation and complex technical escalations. Support commercial and procurement teams with technical guidance on infrastructure quality lifecycle planning supportability and deployment risk.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Electrical Engineering Information Technology or a related technical discipline (Master's preferred). 10+ years leading infrastructure engineering field engineering or large-scale infrastructure deployment organizations. Demonstrated success deploying production AI or HPC infrastructure environments exceeding 500 GPUs experience with deployments of 1000+ GPUs preferred. Extensive hands-on experience implementing GPU clusters Linux environments storage systems and high-performance networking. Deep expertise with rack-scale infrastructure structured cabling power distribution cooling systems and data center operations. Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting expertise. Strong networking expertise including InfiniBand RoCE Ethernet switching routing VLANs RDMA DNS DHCP firewalls and production network troubleshooting. Experience leading Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) Site Acceptance Testing (SAT) commissioning burn-in and production validation. Experience serving as the senior technical escalation point for complex production infrastructure issues. Strong project leadership vendor management and cross-functional execution skills. Excellent communication and executive presentation skills. Willingness to travel extensively to customer sites deployment locations OEM facilities and data center markets.

Preferred Qualifications

NVIDIA Certified Professional (NCP) strongly preferred ideally NVIDIA Certified Professional – AI Infrastructure (NCP-AII) or equivalent NVIDIA AI Infrastructure certification. Experience deploying NVIDIA HGX DGX GB300 GB200 B300 B200 H200 H100 or equivalent AI infrastructure platforms. Expert knowledge of NVIDIA Networking NVLink NVSwitch CUDA NCCL GPUDirect Storage BlueField DPUs DCGM NVML Redfish BMC/IPMI iDRAC and iLO. Experience working directly with NVIDIA and leading OEM partners including Supermicro Dell HPE Lenovo ASUS and GIGABYTE. Experience with Kubernetes Slurm Docker bare-metal provisioning AI workload orchestration and GPU resource management. Experience in cloud infrastructure hyperscale data centers AI infrastructure companies managed infrastructure providers or HPC environments. Professional certifications such as CCNP CCIE RHCE RHCSA or equivalent enterprise infrastructure credentials. Own technical architecture standards for Acasia’s GPU infrastructure environments across data center markets. Design and review infrastructure patterns for GPU servers racks power cooling networking cabling storage monitoring telemetry and remote management. Establish reference architectures for repeatable GPU cluster deployments. Review proposed customer deployments for performance reliability maintainability scalability and supportability. Identify technical risks in infrastructure designs before they become production issues. Partner with engineering product security customer success sales vendors and data center providers to ensure infrastructure designs meet customer and business requirements. Serve as Acasia’s internal authority on GPU infrastructure architecture data center deployment patterns and production readiness.