Hardware Deployment Engineering Team Lead - EMEA

About the Position

Hardware Deployment Engineering Team Lead - EMEA

Join Nebius as a Hardware Deployment Engineering Team Lead in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Manage and develop the EMEA Deployment Engineering team.

About the Company

Nebius is leading a new era in cloud infrastructure for the global AI economy. We are building a full-stack AI cloud platform that supports developers and enterprises from data and model training through to production deployment, without the cost and complexity of building large in-house AI/ML infrastructure.

Built by engineers, for engineers. From large-scale GPU orchestration to inference optimization, we own the hard problems across compute, storage, networking and applied AI.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Deployment Engineering team

  • Manage a team of Deployment Engineers across EMEA.
  • Hold regular 1:1s, provide feedback, set expectations, and support engineers in their development.
  • Assign responsibilities and make sure engineers have clear ownership during deployments.
  • Identify skill gaps and build technical depth within the team.
  • Support hiring, onboarding, and performance management as the team grows.
  • Remove blockers for engineers and escalate organizational or technical issues when necessary.

• Own deployment engineering planning

  • Represent Deployment Engineering in project planning and synchronization meetings for new data center launches.
  • Understand upcoming deployment milestones and translate them into engineering resource requirements.
  • Plan engineer allocation across multiple parallel projects and deployment phases.
  • Make sure the right technical expertise is available for hardware bring-up, testing, troubleshooting, and acceptance.
  • Identify resource conflicts and delivery risks early rather than reacting to them during deployment.
  • Maintain a clear view of team capacity, project priorities, travel requirements, and upcoming workload.

• Drive technical execution

  • Ensure deployment testing and hardware bring-up are executed consistently and to the required quality level.
  • Support engineers with complex hardware, firmware, Linux, and systems troubleshooting.
  • Step into critical technical issues when deeper investigation or coordination is required.
  • Drive problems toward a clearly identified failure domain, root cause, or actionable escalation.
  • Coordinate with R&D, DC Operations, vendors, ODMs, and other engineering teams when issues cross organizational boundaries.
  • Make sure deployment findings result in fixes, documentation, tooling, or process improvements rather than remaining one-off solutions.

• Improve how we deploy infrastructure

  • Build repeatable deployment processes, standards, checklists, and troubleshooting practices.
  • Improve the quality and predictability of hardware testing and acceptance.
  • Identify recurring deployment problems and drive systemic fixes upstream into factory, hardware, firmware, tooling, or operational processes.
  • Improve handover from Deployment Engineering to steady-state operations.
  • Help develop automation and tooling that reduce manual work and increase deployment scale.

Requirements

• Core Skills

  • Strong experience with server hardware, data center infrastructure, or large-scale systems deployment.
  • Experience leading engineers, either as a formal people manager or as a strong technical/team lead with clear ownership for other engineers.
  • Ability to plan resources and coordinate engineering work across several projects running in parallel.
  • Strong ownership mindset and the ability to operate in environments where procedures are incomplete and problems are not yet well understood.
  • Ability to challenge assumptions, investigate beyond the immediate symptom, and drive issues to resolution.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with project managers, engineering teams, operations, and external vendors.
  • Comfortable working directly in data centers and traveling across EMEA when required.

• Nice to Have

  • Linux troubleshooting skills and a solid understanding of modern server architecture.
  • Experience diagnosing hardware and infrastructure problems across components such as CPU, memory, NVMe, PCIe, NICs, BMC, BIOS, and firmware.
  • Experience deploying GPU or AI infrastructure at scale.
  • Experience with large server fleets or hyper-scale environments.
  • Experience working with ODMs or server vendors during production, deployment, or failure investigation.
  • Experience with automated hardware validation or fleet-level testing.
  • Experience building a deployment, infrastructure, SRE, hardware reliability, or similar engineering team.

We Offer

• Competitive compensation
• Career growth and learning opportunities
• Flexibility and ownership
• Collaborative and innovative culture
• Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
• International environment and talented teams

About the Company

Fast moving - Bold thinking - Constant growth - Meaningful impact - Trust and real ownership - Opportunity to shape the future of AI

Equal Opportunity Statement

Nebius is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace and to providing equal employment opportunities in all aspects of employment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the country in which they apply and will be required to provide proof of employment eligibility as a condition of hire.

If you need accommodations during the application process, please let us know.

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