Senior Manager, Data Center Commissioning
Role Summary
Lead the commissioning of AI infrastructure projects with Radiant, requiring hands-on experience and extensive travel across sites.
About the Organisation
Radiant is redefining how AI infrastructure is built.
We design and operate AI-native cloud platforms engineered for sovereignty, performance, and scale. Our infrastructure powers GPU-native workloads, multi-tenant control planes, and high-performance AI systems designed for the most demanding environments.
We are not building a generic cloud. We are building purpose-built AI infrastructure — from powered land, to compute, to software.
As we scale, we're building this organisation from the ground up. We're looking for people who'd rather build the playbook than inherit one — who are comfortable doing the work themselves as well as directing others, and who can adapt as fast as our strategy does. This is a startup model: attitude and adaptability matter more to us than years of experience or the size of team you've previously managed.
This is a cross-functional role requiring strong technical, commercial, and delivery capabilities, with exposure to executive stakeholders and EPCs, equipment OEMs, and the Operations organisation receiving each completed site.
- Lead commissioning activities on-site personally, moving between projects as they reach energisation.
- Build Radiant's commissioning methodology and readiness checklist from scratch.
Key Responsibilities
You'll personally lead commissioning on Radiant's live projects, travelling to whichever site needs you most, and build the handover-to-Operations playbook as you go rather than following one that already exists.
Minimum Requirements
- Attitude matters more to us here than number of years of experience.
- Hands-on commissioning experience on data centre or mission-critical infrastructure, through to energisation.
- Willingness to travel between live sites at short notice; this is not a desk-based role.
- Comfort building a methodology from experience rather than inheriting a mature one.
- We're hiring for the instinct to catch problems on the floor, not years of managing a commissioning department.
- Full ownership of, or demonstrated hands-on experience across, Level 1 to Level 5 commissioning.
- Experience with both air-cooled and liquid-cooled (DLC) commissioning.
- Exposure to integrated systems testing (IST) methodology.
- Experience commissioning projects in both Europe and the US.
Eligibility Criteria
The position is for a senior manager role in commissioning without explicit mention of visa sponsorship or eligibility for international candidates.
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