Senior Director, HPC Deployment at Scale

IREN•,

6d•Remote

About The Position

The Senior Director of HPC Deployment at Scale leads the organization responsible for high-volume deployment of GPU and high-performance computing clusters across data centers. The role turns validated engineering packages, golden builds, deployment procedures, automation, and QA/QC standards from the HPC New Product Introduction (NPI) / First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) organization into a repeatable production deployment capability. This is an execution-at-scale leadership role, overseeing concurrent deployments across the infrastructure stack, including GPU and CPU compute, InfiniBand and Ethernet/RoCE networking, storage integration, management infrastructure, provisioning, automation, observability, and operational tooling. The Senior Director builds the operating model, leadership structure, processes, automation, quality controls, and metrics needed to deliver production GPU capacity on schedule and to high-quality standards across many sites. The position reports to the Vice President, Cloud and is listed as remote, with the work location type also tagged as hybrid. IREN describes itself as a vertically integrated AI Cloud provider that builds, owns, and operates data centers and GPU clusters, using 100% renewable energy.

Requirements

15+ years of experience in infrastructure, HPC, cloud, networking, data center, or large-scale distributed systems.
8+ years leading large technical organizations.
Demonstrated experience executing multiple complex infrastructure deployments concurrently and delivering against aggressive capacity commitments.
Strong operational discipline in schedule, quality, metrics, risk management, forecasting, and cross-functional execution.
Strong understanding of GPU-based computing infrastructure and high-performance networking, including InfiniBand and/or Ethernet/RoCE.
Experience establishing or operating QA/QC, commissioning, validation, burn-in, and production acceptance processes at scale.
Experience building repeatable deployment processes, automation, standardized operating models, and global or multi-site delivery capabilities.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end execution of large-scale GPU/HPC cluster deployments, from deployment readiness through installation, bring-up, provisioning, QA/QC, integration, validation, burn-in, production acceptance, and operational handoff.
Build an organization capable of executing multiple deployments simultaneously while maintaining consistent engineering and quality standards.
Execute approved engineering packages from the NPI/FOAK organization, ensuring deployments follow reference architecture, bills of materials, topology, rack and cabling standards, network configuration, firmware and software versions, provisioning workflows, QA/QC requirements, validation procedures, and production acceptance criteria.
Prevent uncontrolled design deviations and use formal engineering escalation and change-control mechanisms when changes are required.
Own delivery against committed GPU capacity dates by establishing deployment plans, milestones, critical paths, dependencies, site-readiness criteria, and forecasts.
Maintain visibility into deployment status and confidence; identify risks early and drive mitigation and recovery plans across data center, supply chain, networking, compute, storage, software, vendors, and operations.
Own QA/QC throughout scaled deployment, applying quality gates to hardware installation, rack configuration, cabling and optics, fabrics, compute and GPU health, firmware and BIOS, operating systems and drivers, storage connectivity, management infrastructure, provisioning, observability, performance, and reliability.
Track first-pass yield, defects, rework, quality escapes, and production acceptance across deployments and sites.
Build a deployment factory by standardizing workflows, staffing models, tooling, sequencing, quality gates, escalation paths, and practices across locations.
Improve throughput, cycle time, first-pass quality, predictability, automation, and repeatability while reducing site-to-site variance and configuration drift.
Drive an automation-first deployment model with NPI and engineering teams, automating readiness checks, hardware discovery, network configuration, firmware and BIOS validation, bare-metal provisioning, cluster configuration, topology and connectivity validation, GPU health checks, performance testing, QA/QC, burn-in, and production acceptance.
Convert repeatable manual procedures into software wherever practical.
Create a feedback loop from scaled deployment into NPI and engineering, capturing defects, documentation and automation gaps, hardware-quality issues, configuration problems, vendor issues, performance anomalies, and deployment bottlenecks.
Use structured data from deployments to improve future golden builds and ensure changes are incorporated through disciplined version control.
Ensure production delivery meets defined engineering, quality, performance, reliability, and operational acceptance criteria, rather than treating installation completion as delivery.
Partner with SRE and operations teams to ensure handed-over infrastructure is stable, observable, supportable, and ready for production workloads.
Build and lead a multidisciplinary organization spanning HPC/GPU deployment, network deployment, cluster integration, systems engineering, infrastructure automation, QA/QC, validation engineering, site leadership, and technical program management.
Develop leaders who can manage multiple large deployments concurrently and foster a culture of execution, urgency, accountability, standardization, quality, and continuous improvement.

Benefits

Competitive compensation package including base salary, annual performance incentives, and equity programs.
Annual incentive bonus and long-term incentive equity.
100% company-paid employee medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums.
75% company-paid dependent health coverage.
Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance.
Voluntary life, critical illness, and accident coverage.
Health Savings Accounts when combined with the High Deductible Health Plan.
Employee Assistance Program and wellness resources.
401(k) retirement plan with company match.
Access to financial planning and legal services.
Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid holidays.
Internal skills training and advancement pathways.
Professional development support for certifications, continuing education, or role-related training.
Company events and team-building activities.