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About the Role

Senior Deployment Engineers at DigitalOcean are crucial for building and scaling the physical infrastructure that powers our cloud platform. The Deployment team manages new data center builds, infrastructure expansions, hardware deployments, cabling validation, and site readiness, ensuring DigitalOcean's rapid and reliable growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead deployment workstreams for new data center builds, expansions, hardware rollouts, rack buildouts, cluster deployments, and high-density compute infrastructure.
• Act as a senior onsite deployment resource for build quality, infrastructure validation, cabling validation, training, and site readiness.
• Validate vendor and contractor rack and stack work against DigitalOcean design standards, rack elevations, cabling plans, labeling requirements, and deployment procedures.
• Verify physical readiness, including power feeds, redundancy, load balancing, rack layout, hardware placement, cable routing, labeling, and infrastructure documentation.
• Validate front-end and back-end cabling against design, port mapping, LLDP output, link checks, and internal validation workflows.
• Run and interpret LLDP checks, automation scripts, tooling outputs, logs, and hardware diagnostics to confirm connectivity and deployment readiness.
• Identify and drive correction of miswires, optic issues, link inconsistencies, communication errors, hardware faults, provisioning blockers, and physical layout issues.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across hardware, cabling, network-adjacent systems, Linux OS, tooling, and site conditions during high-pressure deployment windows.
• Coordinate contractors, vendors, and internal employees in a project capacity to complete assigned deployment workstreams.
• Sequence work, assign tasks, validate quality, track progress, and escalate blockers for assigned deployment areas.
• Train new DigitalOcean engineers, local Data Center Operations teams, vendors, and contractors on rack and stack standards, cabling patterns, validation workflows, and basic troubleshooting.
• Maintain and improve deployment runbooks, validation workflows, operational procedures, checklists, and handoff documentation.
• Update and validate DCTrack, NetBox handoff requirements, asset records, inventory systems, and deployment documentation.
• Provide daily status updates for assigned workstreams, including progress, risks, blockers, vendor issues, and recommended mitigation steps.
• Partner with Data Center Operations, Network Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Logistics, Facilities, Security, Procurement, and vendors to drive deployment readiness.
• Support operational readiness and handoff for newly deployed infrastructure.
• Participate in lessons learned and drive improvements that reduce repeat issues across future deployments.
• Support planning and preparation for upcoming deployments during offsite periods.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience deploying, operating, or supporting infrastructure in large-scale data center, cloud, lab, networking, or technical operations environments.
• Strong understanding of data center infrastructure, including compute, networking, storage, GPU hardware, cabling, power, rack layouts, and physical deployment standards.
• Experience deploying and troubleshooting high-density compute platforms, GPU infrastructure, and related hardware.
• Experience working with or supporting liquid-cooled infrastructure preferred.
• Strong Linux knowledge and command-line experience, including familiarity with bash scripting, logs, and diagnostic workflows.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across hardware, cabling, Linux OS, network connectivity, optics, provisioning, and tooling.
• Strong understanding of data center cabling plans, port mapping, front-end and back-end network patterns, labeling standards, and deployment best practices.
• Ability to lead assigned deployment workstreams independently in ambiguous, high-cadence environments.
• Ability to direct contractors and vendors professionally, validate completed work, correct quality issues, and drive task completion.
• Ability to evaluate deployment issues, identify root cause, leverage data, and drive timely resolution.
• Ability to communicate clearly with leadership and cross-functional partners regarding status, risk, blockers, and recommended next steps.
• Ability to update, review, and improve deployment documentation, runbooks, validation workflows, and operational procedures.
• Experience training and developing junior engineers, local site teams, vendors, and contractors.
• Ability to operate and navigate effectively through ambiguity while maintaining safety, quality, and execution standards.
• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to see deployment issues through to resolution.
• Ability to identify repeat deployment issues and recommend scalable process, tooling, or documentation improvements.
• The ability to travel domestically and internationally based on deployment needs.
• Support deployment schedules that include extended onsite periods, non-standard hours, or project-based rotations.
• Valid driver’s license and comfort with driving as needed.
• Ability to remain on your feet throughout the workday.
• Ability to lift objects up to 50 lbs.

Skills

• Data center infrastructure
• Compute
• Networking
• Storage
• GPU hardware
• Cabling
• Power
• Rack layouts
• Physical deployment standards
• High-density compute platforms
• Liquid-cooled infrastructure
• Linux
• Bash scripting
• Troubleshooting
• Data center cabling plans
• Port mapping
• Network patterns
• Labeling standards
• Deployment best practices
• Communication
• Documentation
• Runbooks
• Validation workflows
• Operational procedures
• Training
• Process improvement
• Tooling improvement

Location

• Onsite

Work Type

• Onsite
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior
• 4+ years

Salary/Compensations

• $105,600 - $132,000

Benefits

• Employee Assistance Program
• Local Employee Meetups
• Flexible time off policy
• Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education
• LinkedIn Learning access
• Bonus potential
• Equity compensation
• Employee Stock Purchase Program

About the Company

• DigitalOcean is a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, focused on simplifying cloud and AI for builders.
• We are a high-performance organization that challenges employees to think big.
• We value winning together, learning, having fun, and making a profound difference.

Equal Opportunity

• DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.