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This is a rare opportunity to join a company at an inflection point and help shape what it becomes.Role OverviewRZR runs its own metal — four owned-and-operated data centers across Santa Clara, Ashburn, Amsterdam, and Hong Kong, housing approximately 1,300 servers and 1.15MW of capacity, placed next to the major ad exchanges, serving 5–6M+ bid requests per second at ~20ms. This infrastructure is our competitive moat, not a cost center.As Manager, Infrastructure, you will own day-to-day and quarter-to-quarter operation of that entire footprint: the team, hardware lifecycle, capacity planning, incident response, and vendor relationships. You will take over these functions directly from the Head of Cybersecurity & Infrastructure, freeing him to focus on security and multi-entity IT.This is a hands-on manager role. There is no \"scale up\" button here — latency, packets-per-second, and procurement lead times are the job. The right person combines deep bare-metal operational instincts with the leadership presence to run a distributed, experienced global team from day one.Key ResponsibilitiesTeam Leadership & OperationsManage and develop the InfraOps team across US and APAC time zones, including regional DC owners (SV/VA and NL/HK) and network engineeringOwn the weekly DevOps check-in cadence, alert reviews, and 24/7 on-call coverage modelDrive P1/P2 incident response end to end — accountability for MTTR reduction, runbook coverage, and alert hygieneCapacity Planning & Hardware LifecycleOwn capacity planning and hardware lifecycle across all four data centers: Dell and Supermicro procurement through VARs, GPU expansion for on-prem ML training and inference, colo power and space management, and remote-hands logistics with Equinix and Digital RealtyRun the annual cloud-vs-colo evaluation alongside leadership, with full ownership of the recommendationTechnical Platform OversightOversee the core infrastructure stack: Ubuntu/systemd fleet, FreeIPA, Ansible/Salt configuration management, MAAS provisioning, and Zabbix monitoringManage the spine-leaf Mellanox/NVIDIA network via Netris, including 100G Google peering and transit blend (Lumen/Cogent/Zayo)Support the stateful data tier — Aerospike, Kafka, ClickHouse, Hadoop/HDFS — across capacity limits, evictions, migrations, and low-latency tuningVendor & Budget ManagementOwn colo and vendor relationships and budgets: Equinix and Digital Realty invoices, transit contracts, VAR procurement, and Netris licensingPartner with the security/compliance function on SOC 2 Type 2 evidence, infrastructure hardening, and access reviewsOperate comfortably within a multi-entity environment (RZR/Skillz/Firy/Beamable shared IT) with comfort in M&A-flavored ambiguityRequired Skills And ExperienceMust-Have6–8 years in infrastructure or data center operations with 2+ years managing engineers — this role takes over a functioning global team on day oneBare-metal and colo depth: capacity planning, hardware procurement (Dell/Supermicro), IBX/remote-hands workflows, and the physical logistics of running owned cagesNetwork fundamentals at scale: spine-leaf architecture, BGP/peering (100G-class), transit blends, and low-latency tuning (NIC/IRQ, packets-per-second thinking)Deep Linux operations: systemd, netplan, FreeIPA/Chrony, Ansible and/or Salt, Zabbix, running fleets of hundreds-plus serversExperience operating large stateful distributed systems — Aerospike, Cassandra, Scylla, Kafka, or ClickHouse — under sub-50ms latency budgets and hard capacity limitsDemonstrated P1/P2 incident ownership: on-call program management, postmortems, and alert hygiene disciplineNice-to-HaveHybrid cloud experience alongside owned metal: AWS (IAM, Route 53, GuardDuty, S3); Kubernetes exposure a plusSOC 2 or compliance evidence experience; Okta and Vanta familiarity; security-minded infrastructure approachExperience in adtech, RTB, or other high-QPS, latency-sensitive environmentsNetris or other SDN controller experience; MAAS provisioning familiarityWork SetupThis is a remote role open to candidates based in the United States. The role requires periodic travel to our data center sites (Santa Clara, CA; Ashburn, VA; Amsterdam; Hong Kong) and SF HQ for operational reviews, team time, and site work.Why Join RZR?Own a genuinely rare infrastructure environment — four global owned-and-operated data centers, 5–6M+ QPS real-time bidding at ~20ms. This is infrastructure that is the company's competitive moat, running 4–10x faster bid response than cloud DSPs. You will not find this kind of physical infrastructure problem at most companies.Full-stack ownership with no cloud-bill anxiety — real hardware decisions, GPU expansion for on-prem ML, and an annual cloud-vs-colo evaluation you will help drive. Zero marginal experimentation cost.Inherit a functioning, experienced global team — regional DC owners with clear ownership and an established ops cadence. Build on it, not rescue it.Direct line to leadership — reporting to the Head of Cybersecurity & Infrastructure with visibility to the SVP of Engineering. Your goals map straight to company OKRs.Company momentum — RZR rebranded in March 2026 and is expanding aggressively across mobile, CTV, and influencer. 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